Category : POLITICS

By ‘JIDE ADESINA Polling stations opened in Nigeria its electoral commission said, as voters went to the polls to elect a new president in what...

Lawmakers in South Sudan have voted to extend the tenure of President Salva Kiir by three more years. The proposal to extend Kiir’s term, which...

THE AFRIKA MARKET ANALYSIS OF PERTINENT CONCERNS TO NIGERIAN VOTERS  PART 1 EDITORIA @ JIDE ADESINA Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country and its biggest economy,...

Members of Tunisian special forces stand guard outside Tunis-Carthage International airport. Fethi Belaid / Getty Images A third man suspected of involvement in last week’s...

Ford-Kenya leader Moses Wetang’ula will run for president in 2017. This emerged yesterday during the party’s National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held in Elementaita, Nakuru....

FILE – Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta delivers a speech at the Nyayo National Stadium in Nairobi, Oct. 20, 2014.  Judges at the International Criminal Court...

By Khalid Abdelaziz A Sudanese rebel group said on Friday it had launched a military campaign focused on derailing elections slated for next month, as...

Political party national conferences to select flagbearers in next year’s General Election in September are set to dictate the tone of 2015, which will be...

A court in Ivory Coast on Tuesday sentenced former first lady Simone Gbagbo to a 20-year prison term on charges of “undermining state security” during...

Egypt executes a supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood for a murder committed during riots in mid-2013. Muslim Brotherhood supporters Reuters Egypt on Saturday executed a...

Sierra Leone’s Vice President Samuel Sam-Sumana has been expelled from the ruling party, the national broadcaster reported late Friday. The announcement came as Sam-Sumana was...

new leadership will take over in Lesotho after the national elections on Saturday. But, if truth be told, nothing much will change except the portraits...

The party of Lesotho’s prime minister was leading as initial results from general elections in the southern African nation were released. The election commission said...

© AFP file picture Mali’s government on Sunday signed a preliminary peace deal with some northern rebel groups, but the main Tuareg armed coalition asked...

An Egyptian court declared Hamas a “terrorist organization” on Saturday, further isolating the blockaded rulers of the Gaza Strip once openly welcomed by the country’s...

Nthakoana Ngatane Special voters cast their votes on Saturday.(SABC) Tens of Thousands of supporters of the four main political parties contesting the Lesotho elections are...

As President Barack Obama angles for authorization to fight Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, the extremist group may be seizing new territory right...

Thousands of All Progressives Congress supporters scampered to safety on Tuesday when explosions and gunshots boomed at the Okrika National Secondary School Field in Rivers...

  The European Union (EU) has given Zimbabwe €234m, it said on Monday, the first time the government has received EU aid since 2002. The...