Category : POLITICS

  Egypt’s top court hears an appeal Thursday by three jailed Al-Jazeera journalists as expectations of their release grew amid a thawing of Cairo’s ties...

     style=”display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px”      data-ad-client=”ca-pub-3299921071151129″      data-ad-slot=”2102069697″> Gambian President Yahya Jammeh warned plotters the day after a failed coup against his regime. REUTERS A day after...

  Head of the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), Babacar Gaye. UN Photo/Catianne Tijerina Strife-torn Central African Republic is...

Sudan’s ruling National Congress Party (NCP) said it has completed president Omer Hassan al-Bashir’s electoral programme for the upcoming elections stressing that it will focus...

Ivory Coast’s Laurent Gbagbo and his wife Simone sit in a room at Hotel Golf in Abidjan, after they were arrested, April 11, 2011. File...

Beji Caid Essebsi has urged all Tunisians to “work together” for stability Veteran politician Beji Caid Essebsi has been confirmed as winner of Tunisia’s first...

  Tunisia’s Beji Caid Essebsi is leading the exits polls with 55.5% of the vote in the Tunisia first free presidential election. Supporters of the...

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Friday signed into law a controversial anti-terrorism bill that sparked brawls in parliament and provoked charges that it violates basic...

The All Progressives Congress has named a former Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Lagos State, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, as the running mate of...

The United Nations special envoy to the Sahel region said on Monday talks to resolve a crisis in Libya had stalled and warned several countries...

Somalia’s Government and the international community must work to strengthen the country’s rule of law institutions and safeguard its full transition to peace, stability and...

A destroyed house in Ahy Badr in the town of Mizdah in the Nafusa mountains in Libya after tribal conflict in March 2013. Photo: IRIN/Jorge...

One killed, nine injured in the clash At least one person was killed and nine others injured when police clashed with demonstrators who were protesting...

Tunisians voted Sunday in their first presidential election since the 2011 revolution that sparked the Arab Spring, in a ballot set to round off an...

Police in Nigeria fired tear gas in an effort to prevent a top opposition lawmaker from entering parliament on Thursday. Members of parliament had convened...

      This piece was inspired by an innocuous line I had posted on Facebook in reaction to Dele Momodu’s column in Thisday published...

Zida’s appointment comes less than a week after he restored the country’s constitution [AP] The military colonel who briefly seized control of Burkina Faso after...

Zambia’s acting president has announced that an election to replace the country’s late leader will be held on January 20 next year. The polls come...

Diplomat Michel Kafando has been chosen as Burkina Faso’s interim president, officials in the West African country announced Monday, and he will head the country...

  Burkina Faso’s military rulers have said that the country’s new interim civilian leader will be announced not later than Monday. Lieutenant Colonel Isaac Zida,...