Category : POLITICS

A destroyed house in Ahy Badr in the town of Mizdah in the Nafusa mountains in Libya after tribal conflict in March 2013. Photo: IRIN/Jorge...

One killed, nine injured in the clash At least one person was killed and nine others injured when police clashed with demonstrators who were protesting...

Tunisians voted Sunday in their first presidential election since the 2011 revolution that sparked the Arab Spring, in a ballot set to round off an...

Police in Nigeria fired tear gas in an effort to prevent a top opposition lawmaker from entering parliament on Thursday. Members of parliament had convened...

      This piece was inspired by an innocuous line I had posted on Facebook in reaction to Dele Momodu’s column in Thisday published...

Zida’s appointment comes less than a week after he restored the country’s constitution [AP] The military colonel who briefly seized control of Burkina Faso after...

Zambia’s acting president has announced that an election to replace the country’s late leader will be held on January 20 next year. The polls come...

Diplomat Michel Kafando has been chosen as Burkina Faso’s interim president, officials in the West African country announced Monday, and he will head the country...

  Burkina Faso’s military rulers have said that the country’s new interim civilian leader will be announced not later than Monday. Lieutenant Colonel Isaac Zida,...

                              Hailing the political and economic gains made in Somalia through...

With last Tuesday’s midterm election giving Republicans control of the Senate and their biggest majority in the House of Representatives since Harry Truman sat in...

Chinese President Xi Jinping will send a special envoy to attend Zambian President Michael Sata’s funeral on Nov. 11, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang...

Libya’s Supreme Court on Thursday invalidated the internationally recognised Parliament, setting the stage for deepening political chaos in the violence-wracked North African nation. The ruling,...

Reiterating his great concern for the current crisis in Burkina Faso and its impact on national and regional stability, Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said the joint...

Three years after Tunisia’s Islamist party, Ennahda, swept the country’s first free and fair election, the party failed to secure the same position and came...

An activist who hails from Erin-Ijesa in Oriade State constituency, Comrade Adedeji Adedayo Gbenga,(Gbenga-Justice) on Tuesday, October 28th, 2014 declared his intention to aspire as...

Elation beamed from supporters of Tunisia’s secular Nidaa Tunis party just hours after polls closed Oct. 26, marking Tunisia’s second democratic elections after the Arab...

North Korea’s ceremonial head of state, Kim Yong Nam, was to visit Uganda on Wednesday with the aim of sealing deals to strengthen security ties,...

Africa initiative, including sending U.S. troops to Liberia, will amount to more than a hill of beans is whistling Dixie. Maybe it’s overly pessimistic, but...

Police fired tear gas at rock-throwing protesters after tens of thousands of people marched through Burkina Faso’s capital on Tuesday, calling for President Blaise Compaore...