Category : POLITICS

© 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...

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...