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Lagos News

Nigerian elections: Contracts for voter registration decided

Nigeria is to spend $230 million on equipment to renew its electoral rolls. Elections were originally set for the end of January 2011 but because of the need to renew the voters
Dar Es Salaam News

Kikwete returns to power in Tanzania

Jakaya Kikwete was sworn in for his second term as president of Tanzania on 6 November having won 5,276,827 votes or 61.1 per cent of the total turnout. Willibrord Slaa, Kikwete
Lagos News

Lagos doctors’ strike continues

Doctors in federal run hospitals in Lagos joined their state colleagues in a three-day sympathy strike in the first week of November, bringing most of Lagos publicly run hospitals to a halt. The L...
Dar Es Salaam News

Vote counting slow in Tanzanian elections

With vote counting going slowly after the presidential and parliamentary elections in Tanzania on 31 October tension is rising across the country. The incumbent president, Jakaya Kikwete, for the...
Dar Es Salaam News

Tanzanians ready for 2010 elections

Tanzanians go to the polls on 31 October to elect the president and 232 new members of parliament, or Bunge. Jakaya Kikwete, the incumbent president, for the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi party (CCM)...
Dar Es Salaam News

Tanzania goes to the polls

Wilibrord Peter Slaa, born on 29 October 1948 at Kwermusi, Mbulu, in the region of Arusha, is the strongest opposition candidate for the presidency of Tanzania in the elections on 31 October. He repre...
Dar Es Salaam News

Kikwete loses ground to opposition parties in Tanzanian election campaign

With less than two weeks to go before the presidential and parliamentary elections in Tanzania on 31 October the polls disagree about how far the incumbent president Jakaya Kikwete is ahead in the rac...
Cape Town News

Cosatu protests demolition of Hout Bay shacks

The Congress of South African Trade Unions, (Cosatu) has called for demonstrations in favour of settlers living in illegally-built shacks along a part of Hout Bay about 20 km south of Cape Town. The c...
Lagos News

Nigeria celebrates 50 years of independence

Nigeria celebrates the golden jubilee of its independence on 1 October with a series of events that include art exhibitions, plays, sporting activities and religious services. On 30 September, the eve...
Nairobi News

Kenyan government agrees terms for ICC office in Nairobi

The Kenyan government has now signed the terms of agreement with the International Criminal Court (ICC) for setting up its office in Nairobi to look into the post-election violence that left about 1,5...
Nairobi News

Commonwealth summit in Nairobi

10 - 19 September 2010. Nairobi is hosting the 56th plenary conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) at the Kenyatta international conference centre. Between 800 and 1,000 de...
Maputo News

Maputo protests end in deaths

Riots over rising food and fuel prices have led to deaths on the streets of Maputo. Mozambique's private television station S-TV reported that six people, including two children, had been killed, whil...
Nairobi News

Kenya government divided on Al-Bashir invitation

In the wake of what was expected to be a triumphant ceremony for the signing of the new constitution in Nairobi on 27 August the Kenyan government is having to defend itself from questions and protest...
Nairobi News

Signing Kenya’s new constitution

The signing ceremony for Kenya
Lagos News

New Voter Register for 2011 Nigerian elections

Nigeria's Independent Electoral Commission has announced that, subject to government funding, a new voters' register could be established in time for the next general elections in January 2011. Ce...
Nairobi News

Kenyans back new constitution

Kenyans voted by 6,016,550 votes to 2,712,952, or 68.9 per cent to 31.1 per cent, in favour of the new constitution in the 4 August referendum according to official results from 206 out of 210 constit...
Nairobi News

Polling peaceful in Kenya referendum

Vote counting is underway at polling stations across Kenya following the referendum on the new draft constitution, which surveys suggest will be approved. Despite reports of tension in the run-up t...
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