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Mekelle has fallen again, but peace has not followed. The Ethiopia Tigray war escalation is now pulling the whole Horn of Africa into a dangerous guessing game about who will act next. A capital retaken, a war unfinished After nearly two weeks of heavy fighting, Ethiopian federal forces entered the Tigrayan capital as rebel groups, […]
Two presidents sat down in Pretoria this week with one question on the table: can the world’s youngest nation finally go to the polls? The talks centred on South Sudan elections, which are due in December, and on the fragile peace deal that has to hold until then. What the Two Leaders Discussed President Salva […]
Guinea-Bissau has had two men swear in as president in two days. After the inauguration of Umaro Sissoco Embalo, the winner of the contested December vote on Thursday, Guinea’s parliament where the party of Embalo’s challenger Domingos Simoes Pereira holds a majority swore in Cipriano Cassama as interim president on Friday.* In what promises to […]
The European Union (EU) will deploy an observation mission in Ethiopia’s general elections scheduled for August 29, reported this Friday the Prime Minister’s Office in a statement. According to the press release, this was announced by the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy the Spanish Josep Borrell during a meeting in this […]
Court nullifies candidacy of Musa Wada of PDP in the Kogi governorship election The hope of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to contest the result of the 16 November 2019 Kogi State governorship election was dashed on Thursday as the State High Court sitting in Lokoja nullified the eligibility of the party’s candidate in the […]
Ethiopia on Wednesday said it would release dozens of high-profile prisoners from jail, including opposition activists held over an alleged coup and other high-ranking government critics. A spokesman for the attorney general’s office said investigations had been dropped against 63 individuals and they would be released from custody later this week “for the national good”. […]
Polling stations opened on Saturday morning in Togo where voters will choose their president in a ballot without much suspense as incumbent Faure Gnassingbé is expected to win a fourth term in office in the face of divided opposition. Some 3.6 million voters are being called to the polls until 4 p.m. (1600 GMT) in […]
Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo: was his NYSC certificate fake? Was Bayelsa deputy-governor, Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo using a forged discharge certificate of the National Youth Service Corps? An Abuja Area Court has ordered the Department of State Services (DSS) to wade into the matter by investigating the alleged forgery. An APC chieftain from Bayelsa State, Benjamin Youdiowei, had […]
Around a year ago, on 22 February 2019, Algerians thronged the streets to protest against then-President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s bid for a fifth term after nearly 20 years in power. Mr Bouteflika stood down in April. But Algerians kept on protesting. By this time, the protests had a name – the Hirak (movement). Ten months into […]
Togo’s president Faure Gnassingbe is confident of securing victory in Saturday’s elections, telling Knowafrika and Le Monde on Thursday that he is not a dictator. Gnassingbe is aiming to extend his family’s decades-long domination over the West African nation by claiming a fourth term in power. The country of 8 million goes to the polls […]
The Tunisian parliament has set Wednesday a date to vote over Elias Fakhfakh’s government, which will see three new ministerial portfolios. The new cabinet will be composed of 30 ministers and a secretary of state. Fakhfakh announced that after months of consultations an agreement was reached with political parties, on top of them Ennahda Movement, […]
All Progressives Congress (APC) deputy governorship candidate in the Bayelsa State governorship election in Bayelsa State, Senator Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo has debunked the premise which the Supreme Court based its stunning verdict of 13 February, nullifying his election, along with the governorship candidate, David Lyon. The Supreme Court held that Degi-Eremienyo presented forged certificates to the […]
SOUTH SUDAN President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar agreed on Thursday to form a unity government, a long-delayed step towards ending more than six years of war. The rivals have overseen a conflict that has left at least 380,000 dead and forced four million from their homes. “We have agreed to form the […]
Egypt is eager to reach a political solution to resolve the Libyan crisis, said Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry on Sunday during the International Follow-up Committee for the Berlin Security Conference. Shoukry explained the focus should fall on fighting extremist organizations parallel to reaching a comprehensive settlement of the crisis, according to Egyptian Foreign Ministry […]
Former president Thabo Mbeki has undertaken to send apartheid’s last president, FW de Klerk, the UN convention declaring apartheid a crime against humanity. “We were sitting next to each other in parliament, I asked him about that [De Klerk’s comments that apartheid was not a crime against humanity]. “What transpires, is that he actually did […]
APC Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Yekini Nabena, told newsmen in Abuja that the volte face commendation of the Supreme Court and INEC by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over the political situation in the state has exposed the opposition party as a fraudulent and two-faced party. He specifically asked the PDP’s National Chairman, Uche Secondus, […]
Tunisian Prime Minister Elyes Fakhfakh formed a new government on Saturday. The former finance minister, was tasked by Tunisia’s president with forming a government after a previous list proposed under the leadership of the Ennahdha party was rejected by parliament following October legislative elections. Prime Minister Fakhfakh said of his government: “At this historical moment, […]
Mauritania on Friday opened a parliamentary inquiry into the regime of immediate past president, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz. The inquiry is over alleged corruption and mismanagement of the country’s resources Lemrabott Bennahi, spokesman for commission of enquiry said: “After the designation of its members and constitution of its office, the commission therefore becomes an institution […]
Malawi’s electoral commission head, Jane Ansah, has admitted using tippex correction fluid on ballot tally sheets in the now annulled 2019 election, but claimed there is “no evidence” to suggest that it favored any particular candidate. The elections chief was speaking before a special parliamentary committee after the court ordered for an investigation into the […]
The Constitutional Court in Malawi rejected an appeal, brought by President Peter Mutharika and Malawi’s electoral commission, to suspend the judgment it made last week annulling the May 2019 presidential election. The court also dismissed the electoral body’s claim that another election would be too expensive. Judge Dingiswayo Madise said democracy was costly and the […]