Category : POLITICS

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...

By Clement Manirabarusha Burundi’s electoral commission on Monday proposed possible dates for upcoming elections, though the move is unlikely to satisfy government opponents who have...

Rwandan President Paul Kagame arrives in Dar es Salaam on May 13 , 2015 for a crisis summit of East African leaders. PHOTO | DANIEL...

Turkey’s president says he avoided a UN General Assembly dinner in September 2014 in order ‘not to be in the same picture’ as Sisi Turkish...

  Nicolas Sarkozy vs Francois Hollande: the re-match. With both having tightened their grips on their parties in recent days, a 2017 repeat of France’s...

Nkurunziza also “called on party members to be vigilant so that the achievements of democracy are safeguarded,” the statement added. File photo Image by: STRINGER...

Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza should postpone elections in the country scheduled for June, East African leaders said in a joint statement on Sunday.  Presidents of Tanzania,...

Rescue workers gather at the site of an explosion in Maiduguri, Nigeria Photo: AP    Nigeria’s military on Saturday repelled a Boko Haram attack on the...

        Special Reporting by JIDE ADESINA -Editor-In Chief “Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous...

Victory seen as major win for continent’s biggest economy as it clamors to expand role in region Akinwumi Adesina, Nigeria’s minister of agriculture and rural...

EU also made the same request to Morocco and Tunisia in order to monitor the movement of boats transferring illegal migrants or drugs to France,...

People wait to vote at a polling station as Ethiopia’s national election kicks off in capital Addis Ababa. Image by: TIKSA NEGERI / REUTERS Ethiopians voted...