Accra News
Supreme Court upholds Ghanaian election
Ghana's Supreme Court has upheld the result of last December's presidential election following a legal challenge by the opposition.
The announcement was made amid tight security at the court hous...
Accra News
Tension in Ghana ahead of court election verdict
Security will be tight around the Accra court house on 29 August ahead of the supreme court's ruling on the validity of last December's election which saw John Dramani Mahama of the governing National...
Cairo News
Mubarak to be placed under house arrest in Egypt
Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak is to be placed under house arrest after being released from Cairo's Tora prison on 22 August.
The order for house arrest has been made by the office of the...
Maputo News
Mozambique election date announced
General elections will be held in October 2014, following an announcement by Mozambican president Armando Guebuza on 31 July.
Presidential, parliamentary and regional assembly votes will take place...
Cairo News
The family of ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi has claimed he has been abducted by the country's military.
Morsi's family, who has had no contact with him since his removal from office on 3...
Cairo News
Egypt's acting president and head of its supreme constitutional court, Adly Mansour, issued a decree on 8 July providing an election timetable in a bid to halt the continuing civil unrest between Egyp...
Cairo News
Egyptian army overthrows president
The Egyptian army removed president Mohammed Morsi from power on Wednesday 3 July, following a military ultimatum which expired earlier that day. In a televised address, army chief General Abdul Fatt...
Cairo News
Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi refused to step down late on Tuesday 2 July, following a day in which clashes between his supporters and opponents claimed at least 16 lives in the greater Cairo area...
Cairo News
Protesters demanding the resignation of Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi are preparing for a second day of demonstrations on Monday 1 July.
Tens of thousands of Egyptians demonstrated in Cairo's...
Addis Ababa News
Major human rights rally in Addis Ababa
A human rights rally in Addis Ababa on 2 June attracted about 10,000 supporters, according to Reuters.
The anti-government demonstration, which had received the go-ahead from authorities, was the...
Maputo News
Mozambique starts voter registration
A voter registration programme began in Mozambique on 25 May and runs until 23 July, ahead of the nation's presidential election in 2014.
The registration process got off to a shaky start due to te...
Cairo News
Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi reshuffled the nation’s government on 7 May, increasing his Muslim Brotherhood party's share to 10 of the cabinet's 35 members.
Two of the nine new ministers...
Cairo News
Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak faces a retrial on 11 May on charges of complicity in the killing of more than 800 demonstrators during the 18-day uprising that ended his three-decade rule in...
Nairobi News
Kenyatta sworn in as Kenyan president
Kenya new president Uhuru Kenyatta was inaugurated at a swearing-in ceremony at Nairobi's Moi International Sports Centre on the morning of Tuesday 9 April.
Leaders from across Africa, as well as d...
Nairobi News
Supreme court upholds Kenyatta’s victory
Five people were killed in clashes in Nairobi and the lakeside town of Kisumu on the night of 30 March after the supreme court upheld Uhuru Kenyatta's election as president in the 4 March polls.
Th...
Nairobi News
Odinga to challenge presidential result
Following the declaration of Uhuru Kenyatta on 9 March as Kenya's president-elect, his closest rival Raila Odinga is preparing a supreme court challenge against Kenyatta's election. His appeal is expe...
Cairo News
Violence in Cairo after Port Said stadium ruling
Two people were killed in clashes in Cairo and the Mediterranean city of Port Said on 9 March following an Egyptian court's decision to uphold the death sentences against 21 people found guilty of cau...
Nairobi News
Uhuru Kenyatta proclaimed Kenya’s new president
Uhuru Kenyatta has been declared Kenya's new president having won 50.7 per cent of the vote. He has won the presidency by a margin of 8,419 votes.
His rival Raila Odinga has not yet accepted defeat...
Nairobi News
Kenya’s presidential election tightens
Kenya's presidential race tightened on 8 March as the gap narrowed between deputy prime minister Kenyatta, who had enjoyed an early lead, and his main rival prime minister Raila Odinga.
According t...
Nairobi News
Kenyatta takes early lead in Kenyan elections
On 6 March presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta from the Jubilee alliance remains in the lead, two days after Kenyans went to the polls in the nation's first presidential and parliamentary elections...
