Category : POLITICS

A group of Arab, Islamic and Western countries, including Qatar, urged all Libyan parties to approve the political agreement brokered by the UN Special Representative...

Ex-Seleka and anti-balaka combatants have been marching on the capital Bangui, aiming at direct confrontation. The prospect of presidential elections, planned for December, is fuelling tensions further. After the...

   Egypt’s PM Sherif Ismael (Al-Ahram) Egypt’s cabinet gave state employees a half-day off on Monday, the second day of voting in the first stage...

Beards without moustaches, the trademark of ultraconservative Islamists, were all the rage at this campaign rally, among both speakers and the men in the audience,...

UN insists on Sahrawis’ self-determination, right to own political status GENEVA- The United Nations (UN) underlined, the Saharawi people right to self-determination and the right...

Guinean election officials examine votes at a collation center in the Conakry neighborhood of Ratoma, Oct. 14, 2015. Turnout in Sunday’s controversial first round of...

FILE – Thomas Sankara  A lawyer for the family of Burkina Faso’s late Marxist revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara said Tuesday that an autopsy proved he...

Millions of Guineans voted peacefully on Sunday in the West African country’s second free election since independence from France nearly 60 years ago. President Alpha...

The National Electoral Commission in Tanzania said on Monday it was beefing up security at its headquarters to protect election facilities to be used in...

Burkina Faso is freezing the assets of the leaders of the coup launched earlier this month, the state prosecutor said on Saturday. An investigation will...

Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir. By MOHAMMED AMIN IN SUMMARY President Bashir had vowed last month that he will attend the meetings, noting that the US had...

Good night and good luck Bless the talents of Mike Bowers. Here’s a portrait of a man who knew he wouldn’t be prime minister by...

Officials in Burkina Faso say that 14 candidates will take part in next month’s election, the first since the longtime leader in this West African...

Ivory Coast’s constitutional court cleared 10 candidates on Wednesday to stand in next month’s presidential election including incumbent Alassane Ouattara, who is expected to win...

Abderrahim Chalfaouat Among the Arab Spring developments, Morocco has positioned itself as an exceptional political experience in the region. The monarchy, Islamist-led government and opposition...

On September 4th Morocco will hold municipal elections, after having postponed them as a response to the political parties’ demand, and due to tremendous reluctance...

Egypt will hold a long-awaited parliamentary election, starting on Oct. 18-19, the election commission said on Sunday, the final step in a process to bring...

East African leaders travelled to South Sudan Wednesday to witness President Salva Kiir’s expected signing of a peace deal with rebels, amid threats of United...

Public Statement USA 08/23/2015 As the IGAD plus peace proposal on South Sudan had hit a deadlock on the government side. Our position as one...

One of Africa’s wealthiest presidents said this week that he was giving up at least some of his holdings “to the people of Gabon,” a...