Category : POLITICS

Sudan’s National Elections Commission (NEC) has announced that polling in the coming elections will take place from 13 to 15 April while vote counting will...

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan is appealing to the United States for greater assistance in the fight against Boko Haram Islamists, according to the Wall Street...

George Muchai was killed along with two bodyguards and his driver in an early-morning shooting. A Kenyan politician has been shot dead by gunmen, along...

Nthakoana Ngatane Political tension is again mounting in Lesotho, ahead of the February 28 election. This is after King Letsie III appointed Dr. Kananelo Mosito...

 The president appoints General Osama Roshdy Askar to lead army counter-terrorism efforts east of the Suez Canal File Photo: Egypt’s Supreme Council of the Armed...

The gap between Hillary Rodham Clinton’s rhetoric warning of a Rwanda-like slaughter of civilians in Libya and the facts gathered by career intelligence staff is...

H.E. Macky SALL, President of the Republic of Senegal and Chairperson of the NEPAD Heads of State and Government Orientation Committee (HSGOC) will chair the...

By Georgianne Nienaber I received an email today from Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). “The violences (sic) that have started at the...

Freed from jail on Monday, the sons of deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, are said to have visited their father in the military hospital where...

  At least 17 people were killed on Sunday in Egypt’s bloodiest protests since Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was elected president, as security forces fired at...

  Patriotic Front (PF) Presidential candidate Edgar Lungu casts his ballot at a voting station in John Howard township in Lusaka, January 20, 2015. CREDIT:...

Nigeria’s campaign against Islamist Boko Haram insurgents is being hampered by “cowards” within the armed forces, its presidential security adviser said in a rare public...

A police officer was injured when a small bomb exploded outside the presidential palace in Cairo on Thursday, police sources said. An unknown assailant on...

After newspaper removed a top staff-man, the president suggests the editor was victimized for publishing a poll that showed him in the lead. Clandestine nature of president’s meeting raises...

At least four people, including two policemen, were killed in Kinshasa on Monday, the government said, after security forces clashed with thousands protesting moves to...

Boko Haram, Nigeria’s homegrown Islamic extremist group, is increasing the ferocity and tempo of its attacks, destabilizing Africa’s most populous nation as it prepares for...

There is, of course, a reason the MSM, which apparently follows the Obama administration’s lead, has been unkind to Egypt’s president. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah...

The United Nations Electoral Observation Mission in Burundi, known by its French acronym MENUB, officially launched its activities today in the capital of Bujumbura as...

Kofi Annan Kofi Annan, Chair of the Kofi Annan Foundation, is to visit Nigeria from January 12 to 14 to address a conference on the...