Tag: politics

Chad junta chief Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno on Monday said a "government of national union" would be created in the ...

With campaigning underway for Nigeria’s 2023 election, the ruling APC is fending off questions over the health of its presidential ...

Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Monday cautioned critics inside her government against overstepping their authority, after shuffling her cabinet ...

Envoys from the West African bloc ECOWAS were heading to Burkina Faso on Monday after the jihadist-torn Sahel state underwent ...

Environment ministers from about fifty countries will gather in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday for a "pre-COP27" climate ...

Thousands of supporters for Nigeria's Labour party candidate Peter Obi rallied in Lagos and other cities on Saturday, in the ...

Kenya's newly elected President William Ruto on Thursday vowed to overhaul the country's income tax regime and introduce reforms asking ...

Campaigning for Nigeria's 2023 presidential election got off to a low-key start on Wednesday, with candidates holding a book launch ...

South Africa's ex-president Jacob Zuma, who is facing corruption charges and served a short stint in jail, has said he ...

With Nigeria's economy struggling and insecurity rife, four top presidential candidates start campaigning this week for next February's election in ...

Guinea's ruling military junta on Thursday accused the president of the West African regional bloc ECOWAS of "lies" over his ...

A Senegalese appeal court on Wednesday confirmed a prison sentence handed down to the mayor of Dakar, convicted of killing ...

Chad's foreign minister resigned on Monday, accusing the ruling junta of sidelining him at a key forum aimed at steering ...

Eight Namibian cheetahs arrived in India Saturday, decades after their local extinction, in an ambitious project to reintroduce the spotted ...

Angolan President Joao Lourenco vowed to push ahead with economic reform and hailed voters' "tolerance" as he was sworn in ...

South Africa's parliament has appointed an independent panel to determine whether President Cyril Ramaphosa should face impeachment over the alleged ...

Fuel prices in Kenya surged to record highs on Thursday after the new government slashed subsidies, piling on misery for ...

A general who became a graft buster and turned on his political patron, Angolan President Joao Lourenco will be sworn ...

Angolan President Joao Lourenco is to be sworn in for a second term on Thursday amid tight security after a ...

Ivory Coast on Wednesday accused Mali of "blackmail" over 46 Ivorian troops who have been detained by Bamako and called ...

Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud urged citizens to stay away from areas controlled by Al-Shabaab jihadists as he vowed to ...

Several people were injured on Tuesday as crowds tried to force their way into the stadium where Kenya's president-elect William ...

“Let them do what they like. A time will come – I can see it coming – when they shall ...

Kenya's William Ruto will on Tuesday take charge of the East African economic powerhouse after the country's Supreme Court confirmed ...

Liberian President George Weah on Monday accepted the resignations of three close allies after the United States last month accused ...

Senegal will break new ground Monday as West Africa's largest-ever proportion of women MPs take their seats in a newly ...

Burkina Faso junta chief Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, visiting Ivory Coast on a key foreign trip, on Monday stood by ...

Kenya's Supreme Court on Tuesday said it had identified nine issues to determine the outcome of petitions challenging the result ...

Political debates are considered a key part of campaign outreach in many democracies as early as 1920's. A leaders' debate ...

David Ole Sankok on Monday, July 4 announced his retirement from politics. The Nominated Member of Parliament via an interview ...