Politics

Cape Town News

Desmond Tutu celebrates 80th birthday in Cape Town

Politics 09 Oct, 2011

Activist and retired bishop Desmond Tutu celebrated his 80th birthday on 7 October in St George

Accra News

Ghana seventh on 2011 Ibrahim Index

Politics 09 Oct, 2011

Ghana comes seventh for the second year in a row on the annual Ibrahim Index of African Governance. The 2011 index was released on 10 October. Ahead of Ghana is Mauritius in the number one slot, fo...

Cairo News

Lack of clarity over transfer of power in Egypt

Politics 06 Oct, 2011

Egypt's interim military rulers, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), could remain in power until the end of 2012 according to a timetable for a transition to elected rule, presented by the...

Cairo News

Egyptian protestors attack Israeli embassy

Politics 09 Sep, 2011

The Israeli ambassador to Egypt and most of the embassy staff have flown out of the country in the wake of attacks on the embassy by protestors, which broke out after prayers on Friday. Only the c...

Addis Ababa News

Ethiopia cracks down on journalists

Politics 09 Sep, 2011

Ethiopia charged two Swedish freelance journalists with terrorism, at a court in Addis Ababa on 6 September. Reporter Martin Schibbye and photographer Johan Persson had been held in jail since they we...

Cairo News

Mubarak trial resumes in Cairo

Politics 06 Sep, 2011

The trial of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, who is accused of ordering the killing of protesters during Egypt

Cairo News

Egypt walls off Israeli embassy in Cairo

Politics 05 Sep, 2011

Egyptian has erected a 2.5m high concrete wall around Israel's embassy in the city of Giza, in the western suburbs of Cairo, amid escalating tensions between the two countries. The governor of Giza, A...

Accra News

Ghana ranks high on peace list

Politics 28 Aug, 2011

Ghana is ranked as the third most peaceful country in Africa after Botswana and Malawi, according to the 2011 Global Peace Index published by the Institute of Economics and Peace in the United States....

Nairobi News

Aladwa elected mayor of Nairobi

Politics 10 Aug, 2011

George Aladwa of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) has been elected as the new mayor of Nairobi. He won 57 votes to 45 for James Gakuya of the Party of National Unity (PNU). Aladwa has been act...

Nairobi News

Nairobi election for mayor

Politics 08 Aug, 2011

Local elections are taking place across Kenya in the last vote before the new devolved system of government outlined by the 2010 constitution becomes operative next year. The minister for local govern...

Cairo News

Violent clashes in Cairo

Politics 24 Jul, 2011

Some 300 people have been reported injured in violent clashes in Cairo on 23 July after crowds of 5,000 protestors called for democracy and an end to the rule of the military council appointed after t...

Cairo News

Cairo’s Southern Sudanese community celebrates independence

Politics 10 Jul, 2011

Cairo's community of Southern Sudanese residents celebrated the birth of their new nation on 9 July. The expatriates and economic migrants from Africa's newest state, many of whom have lived in Cairo...

Cairo News

Poll for Egyptian president on Facebook

Politics 22 Jun, 2011

Egypt

Arusha News

EAC hosts former German president

Politics 14 Jun, 2011

Horst Kohler, the former president of Germany, is to attend a high level East African Community (EAC) roundtable discussion in Arusha on 16 June. The summit takes place at 14.00 in the Thembo Hall of...

Cape Town News

Cape Town to swear in new council

Politics 29 May, 2011

Cape Town

Lagos News

Goodluck Jonathan sworn in as Nigeria's president

Politics 29 May, 2011

Just hours after Goodluck Jonathan was sworn in as president of Nigeria on 29 May in the country

Cape Town News

South African votes in municipal elections

Politics 16 May, 2011

South Africa goes to the polls on Wednesday 18 May to renew councils for all municipalities throughout the country. In Cape Town and across Western Cape province the governing Democratic Alliance...

Lagos News

Nigerian election season ends

Politics 02 May, 2011

After the violence triggered by the return of Goodluck Jonathan as president of Nigeria in the voting on 16 April, the elections for 36 regional governors and legislatures on 25 April have been relati...

Nairobi News

Uganda's Besigye treated in Nairobi after brutal arrest in Kampala

Politics 30 Apr, 2011

Both Uganda

Lagos News

Violence erupts after Nigerian elections

Politics 19 Apr, 2011

Hopes that Nigeria

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