Nairobi News
Voters in Kenya go to the polls on Monday 4 March in the country's first presidential and parliamentary elections since 2007. In the lead-up to the 2013 elections the eight presidential candidates hav...
Cairo News
Egypt announces parliamentary elections
On 21 February, embattled Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi announced that the nation's parliamentary elections would begin on 27 April, in a four-staged voting process ending in June.
Following th...
Nairobi News
Tensions ahead of Kenyan elections
Tensions are rising in Kenya in the run-up to the presidential and parliamentary elections on 4 March. The election campaign took a sinister turn on 20 February after the country's chief justice Willy...
Cairo News
Iranian leader concludes Cairo visit
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad concluded his historic visit to Cairo on 8 February, marking the first time an Iranian leader has visited Egypt in 34 years.
The landmark trip was not without...
Cairo News
Iranian leader on historic visit to Cairo
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad began a three-day visit to Egypt on 5 February when he was welcomed to Cairo by Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi.
The historic event marks the first time an I...
Cairo News
The Egyptian defence minister Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has warned that Egypt's ongoing political, economic and social crisis threatens the country's "security and stability" and may lead to the “col...
Cairo News
A Cairo court ordered a retrial of ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak on 13 January, granting an appeal of the former dictator’s life sentence for failing to prevent violence against protes...
Nairobi News
The campaign for Kenya’s presidential and parliamentary elections began in earnest after MPs passed a raft of important bills including a mini-budget on 8 January, the last day of the tenth parl...
Accra News
President John Mahama sworn in
Incumbent John Dramani Mahama of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) was sworn in as Ghana's president on 7 January, however the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) boycotted the event o...
Cairo News
Egyptian voters have approved the contentious Islamist-drafted constitution, which was signed into effect on 25 December by President Mohammed Mursi, shortly after the official results were announced...
Cairo News
Protests continue over Egyptian referendum
Fresh opposition protests have been held outside the presidential palace in Cairo over the contentious Islamist-backed draft constitution that looks on course to be adopted after the second and final...
Accra News
Mahama re-elected Ghanaian president
Ghana's incumbent president John Dramani Mahama of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) has been declared the winner of the nation's presidential election, although results are being conte...
Accra News
Ghanaians prepare to vote
As Ghanaians prepare to go to the polls to elect a new president and parliament on 7 December, it looks like it will be a tightly-fought presidential race between incumben...
Accra News
Ghana presidential candidates pledge peace
Ghana's eight presidential candidates have pledged to uphold peace and democracy ahead of the country's elections on 7 December, at a ceremony in the southern city of Kumasi.
The signing of the his...
Cairo News
Egypt’s new constitution published
Egypt’s new constitution has been finalised after being rushed through in a vote by the country’s Islamist-led assembly on 30 November. The move is seen as an attempt to quell the ongoing...
Nairobi News
Malawi to re-open embassy in Nairobi
Malawi is to re-open its embassy in Nairobi following its closure ten years ago.
The move is part of an initiative by Malawi's newly-elected leader Joyce Banda to strengthen diplomatic relations be...
Cairo News
Mursi grants himself sweeping powers
Opposition leaders in Egypt are calling for mass protests across Egypt on 23 November over the decree issued by President Mursi that gives him sweeping powers and makes it difficult for him to be remo...
Nairobi News
Kenya begins biometric voter registration
A nationwide biometric registration programme got underway in Kenya on 19 November, ahead of the general elections on 4 March 2013.
The month-long programme, which ends on 19 December, will replace...
Addis Ababa News
Ethiopia and Qatar resume relations
Ethiopia and Qatar resumed diplomatic and economic ties after the prime ministers of both countries met at Ethiopia's presidential palace in Addis Ababa early November.
The new relationship, descri...
Accra News
Upcoming presidential elections in Ghana
On 7 December Ghanaians will go to the polls to vote in the country's presidential elections in which incumbent leader John Mahama will seek to retain his seat.
Although there are eight election ca...
