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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 […]
Namibia’s president Hage Geingob on Friday looked set to secure a second term with partial results from this week’s general election showing him leading with 56% of the vote. The southwestern African country held its sixth presidential and parliamentary elections on Wednesday amid economic woes and growing frustration against the regime. Geingob’s South West Africa […]
Sudan’s National Congress Party (NCP) on Friday condemned the government’s decision to dissolve it, and confiscate its assets, insisting that its ‘ideas will prevail’. The NCP which is ousted president Omar al-Bashir’s party accused the new “illegal government” of trying to confiscate its properties to help tackle Sudan’s economic crisis. “To rely on the assets […]
Sudan’s transitional government has abolished a law criminalizing immoral conduct and indecent clothing that rights groups criticize as targeting women and say is a holdover from the three-decade rule of toppled autocrat Omar al-Bashir. Sudan’s sovereign council and cabinet announced early Friday that they would overturn the notorious Public Order Act, and also order the […]
Tanzania’s ruling party won more than 99 percent of seats in local elections boycotted by the opposition, according to official figures released on Monday. The vote on Sunday was for 16,000 seats for street and village leaders, positions that are highly influential in Tanzanian life. The long-ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party of President John […]
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Monday warned it had a standby military force poised to “re-establish order” in the event of a coup in Guinea Bissau. The warning came as the West African states rejected claims of ballot fraud in Sunday’s election despite claims by incumbent Jose Mario Vaz’s campaign team […]
Former Deputy Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, Obert Gutu who is also the Vice President of the opposition MDC led by Thokozani Khupe has claimed that there are some quarters who were not amused when investors were coming to Zimbabwe. Posting on microblogging site, Twitter, Gutu said: Level of negativity within certain circles […]
Senior officials of MDC have said that they do not want another military coup in Zimbabwe. Since the return of Vice President Constantino Chiwenga from China on Saturday morning, there has been speculation that the opposition is keen for him to lead another coup. Presidential Advisory Council member, Trevor Ncube claimed the MDC is praying […]
Tanzania on Sunday held local government elections, viewed as a test case ahead of national polls next year, with the main opposition party boycotting the ballot citing violence and intimidation. The long-ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party of President John Magufuli is therefore set for a sweeping victory. The nationwide polls, with over 19 million […]
Deputy President William Ruto has insisted that Kenyans should not be coerced to support Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) report. Speaking at Muraga Technical Training Institute in Tharaka-Nithi County on Saturday, Dr Ruto said Kenyans must be given enough time to read the BBI report in order to make an informed decision on whether to support […]
Zimbabwe’s president Emmerson Mnangagwa has said that he arranged VP Chiwenga’s hospitalisation in China directly with China’s President Xi Jinping. Mnangagwa revealed this to journalists after meeting Chiwenga’s at his home yesterday. I am confident that now the whole of Zimbabwe knows that the Vice-President is back and fit, and he is very clear and […]
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga is back in Zimbabwe in time for the Zanu PF annual conference scheduled for 11 to 16 December in Goromonzi. He returned to Zimbabwe earlier today and was welcomed at the airport by a delegation of Chinese people and some relatives. With his return imminent, a Zanu PF insider commented earlier […]
President Muhammadu Buhari says he will not seek a third term in office at the end of his second term in 2023. The Nigerian Constitution sets a two-term limit for the president and state governors, but that has not stopped speculations that Mr Buhari may want to stay beyond 2023. Former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, was […]
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said that there have been significant changes in Zimbabwe since his ascendancy to power. He speaks two years after Zimbabweans marched on November 18th, 2017, during the military assisted transition which resulted in the demise of Zimbabwe’s founding leader, the late former president Robert Mugabe. ED, as Mnangagwa is popularly known […]
Leader of the opposition party, Zimbabwe Development Party (ZDP), Kisinoti Mukwazhe has died, at the age of 49. Mukwazhe died on Sunday night at Karanda Mission Hospital after a short illness. He died after being admitted complaining of a sore throat. Mukwazhe is survived by his wife Shaderah and seven children. Mourners are gathered at […]
Hama Amadou, the main opposition leader in Niger’s last presidential election recently returned from medical exile in France but has since hauled into jail. Multiple news portals said the former Speaker of the National Assembly, appeared before the Niger High Court after he was summoned on his return. He was escorted by security official to […]
Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front, EPRDF, the four-member ruling coalition governing Africa’s second most populous nation, on Saturday announced an agreement in principle by its top leadership to merge into one party. The decision was announced after an Executive Committee meeting of the leadership. The decision is however subject to final endorsement by the EPRDF’s […]
Mozambique’s largest opposition party Renamo has lost its bid to annul last month’s election results after the country’s top court threw out its challenge, according to a court judgement seen on Friday. Renamo, the rebel group turned opposition party, lodged an application after it lost the October 15 election to the long-ruling Frelimo party. It […]
Twenty-three MPs have accused DP William Ruto of undermining President Uhuru Kenyatta and demanded his resignation. They said the DP has been attacking government officials and working round the clock to scuttle Uhuru’s handshake deal with ODM leader Raila Odinga and undermine the yet-to-be-released Building Bridges Initiative report. The lawmakers, drawn from Jubilee, ODM, Ford […]