Category : POLITICS

Young people, some on bicycles, hang to the back of a truck outside the capital Bujumbura, Burundi, July 19, 2015.Sadness consumed Deo Mbituyimana in 2007...

Congo Republic’s opposition parties have convened an Alternative National Forum in rejection of a government-sponsored conference that opens the door to President Denis Sassou Nguesso...

In accordance with its mandate, MENUB observes the electoral process in Burundi,  While the 21 July election in Burundi that won President Pierre Nkurunziza a...

For years, the United States has displayed a kind of split personality when it comes to Ethiopia, working closely with its government to fight designated...

Polling stations have closed after Burundi’s controversial presidential elections, in which incumbent Pierre Nkurunziza is widely expected to win a third consecutive term. Shortly before...

Tunisia Prime Minister Habib Essid adresses the parliament in Tunis on Wednesday, July 8, 2015.He says that authorities believe plots aimed at massive deaths and...

The United Nations peacekeeping operation in the Central African Republic (CAR) today condemned a recent series of armed attacks perpetrated by rebel elements. “The United...

File Photo: Ousted president Mohamed Morsi (Photo: Reuters) The official Facebook page and Twitter account of former Islamist President Mohamed Morsi published a message Thursday...

  Members of the Bring Back Our Girls group campaigning for the release of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram militants march to meet with...

Police in Uganda arrested two major challengers to President Yoweri Museveni in the upcoming elections planned for next year. The two are former Premier Amama...

The main opposition party in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Tuesday said it will boycott talks this week with the government over constitutional...

Burundi’s parliamentary election was not free, fair, transparent or credible and violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms were committed, the United Nations said on...

The United States said Friday it was suspending assistance for Burundi’s elections because of the leader of the African nation’s “continued efforts to violate” a...

Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf speaks at a meeting commemorating the 50th anniversary of the African Development Bank in Abidjan.  Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf...

BURUNDIAN Second Vice-President Gervais Rufyikiri claimed yesterday that he had fled the country in fear for his life after opposing President Pierre Nkurunziza’s bid for...

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday slammed the state of the country’s finances, claiming his predecessor had left Africa’s biggest economy deep in debt and...

MALI’S Tuareg separatist guerillas signed a peace deal with the government on Saturday, drawing three years of civil war to a close. The Co-ordination of...

Ahead of 40th independence anniversary celebrations next week, Mozambique has marked the 1960 Mueda massacre when up to 600 protesters were gunned down by Portuguese...

‪In Khartoum, ‪supporters of President Al Bashir celebrated his return to the Sudanese capital by carrying a coffin, wrapped in sheets with ‘Laying the ICC...

Africa’s leaders are gathering in Johannesburg and Pretoria to try to prevent a rash of conflicts and crises derailing the continent’s potential. The leaders of...