By Fidel Amakye Owusu The pattern has become grimly familiar across Africa: military coups followed by promises of democratic transition, then a return to authoritarianism. But...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Across Africa, a recurring political drama is playing out: ousted autocrats, even after years in exile, continue to cast long shadows over...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Efforts to broker peace in Sudan are faltering once again. Despite renewed pledges to revive the stalled Jeddah talks, violence continues to...
January 20 was the third inauguration anniversary of Barack Obama, the first African American president of the US. President Obama was inaugurated on the January 20,...
(Reuters) – Ugandan police fired tear gas before bundling opposition leader Kizza Besigye and several allies into police vans on Thursday, witnesses said, shortly before planned...
Guinea-Bissau’s president Malam Bacai Sanhá. PHOTO/Roosewelt Pinheiro / Agência Brasil President Malam Bacai Sanhá, who took power of the tiny West African nation Guinea-Bissau about two...
Against all odds, the party of Nelson Mandela has transformed a nation where just 20 years ago black South Africans could not vote, and beaches and...
(Reuters) -Zimbabwe’s projected economic growth in 2012 depends on a stable political environment which could be undermined if a contentious general election takes place, the African...
Congo’s president has been sworn in for another term after an election contested by the country’s main opposition candidate. President Joseph Kabila’s inauguration went ahead Tuesday...
Zimbabwe’s long-time ruler expressed confidence Thursday that his party can win proposed elections, saying there was no need for coercive campaigning or political violence because voters...
Partial results issued by Congo’s electoral commission overnight make it all but certain that President Joseph Kabila will be declared the winner, setting the stage for...
Immediate past president Rupiah Banda (pictured), has been appointed to lead an election observer mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Banda has accepted to...
Equatorial Guineans have voted in a referendum that would limit presidential terms in the small oil-rich African country, which has been ruled by the same man...
Africa’s first and only female president, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (pictured), handily won re-election with 90.2 per cent of the vote, but her victory has been rendered hollow...
Liberia President., Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. AP Photo/FRANCOIS MORI Liberia’s president urged voters to go to the polls this week and to ignore a boycott by the opposition....
Liberia’s main opposition party says it will take part in next week’s presidential runoff vote after threatening a boycott. The party, whose ticket includes soccer star...
The president of oil-rich Angola on Tuesday denied his country was a dictatorship but admitted there was a need for more social dialogue after a series...
Opposition parties in Liberia on Saturday said they were pulling out of the elections, claiming fraud, as vote-counting put incumbent President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in the...
Three top government officials in Uganda who stepped down from their jobs while facing corruption charges have told a court they are not guilty. Foreign Affairs...
Liberians vote in presidential election Africa’s only female president who was just awarded the Nobel Peace prize for helping stabilize this war-torn nation led in unofficial...
Liberian voters camped out overnight and then braved rains Tuesday in the capital to vote in the West African nation’s presidential election, expected to serve as...
She may have won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, but even that may not be enough to persuade voters in this nation with 80 percent unemployment...
Voting in Cameroon – Courtesy Getty Images Opposition candidates on Monday alleged widespread fraud and intimidation at polling stations, a day after voters cast ballots in...
Voting in Cameroon’s presidential elections got off to a slow start on Sunday, with polling stations opening late or none at all. Seven of Cameroon’s 20...
Zambia’s new president, Michael Sata (pictured), said on Saturday he would not travel to Malawi for a regional summit because his counterpart had failed to apologise...
The Press Union of Liberia on Wednesday condemned the sacking of state radio chief Ambroise Nmah, accusing President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (pictured), of replacing him with...
The former vice-president of Uganda, Dr. Gilbert Bukenya (pictured), has been remanded in prison after an anti-corruption court ruled that he was involved in fraudulent practice...
Armed men dressed as soldiers fired into the air and stopped traffic in south Cameroon last week, demanding the departure of long-serving President Paul Biya (pictured)...
Newly elected Zambia President Michael Sata has appointed Guy Scott (pictured), as vice president, making him the first white man to hold that high position since...
The latest results from Zambia’s electoral commission show opposition leader Michael Sata leading incumbent President Rupiah Banda 43 to 36 percent, with results in from slightly...
Voting has ended in a Zambian general election that E.U. observers say was conducted in a as fair and transparent manner, despite scattered incidents of violence...
Zambia’s President Rupiah Banda (pictured), on Monday made a stern call for peace the day before voters go to the polls in an election that will...
President Kagame received President Nicolas Sarkozy of France on his first visit to Rwanda. Three years ago a commission of inquiry set up by Rwanda’s President...
A pro-democracy campaigner trumped the ruling party candidate on Wednesday in a critical by-election that signals increasing opposition to President Bingu wa Mutharika‘s seven-year rule of...
Cameroon's longtime president, Paul Biya, has officially declared his candidacy for the October 9 presidential polls despite calls for him to step down after nearly 30...
President Robert Mugabe's Zanu PF party dismissed Monday a "confidential" cable released by WikiLeaks that claims the Zimbabwean leader has cancer.
Hague court dismisses plea to halt investigation against six for suspected role in deadly 2007 post-poll violence.
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - The U.N. has urged African leaders to "encourage new leadership" in Libya...
For the last few months, some African states have dominated international news: Côte d’Ivoire, Sudan, Tunisia, Egypt and now Libya. Tunisia which has been governed with...
The president of Malawi has dissolved his Cabinet of more than 40 ministers and deputies without giving any reason.
Uganda‘s Security Minister Wilson Muruli Mukasa has accused the opposition of using social media in a “grand plan” to topple the government. His comments came as...
Twelve members of former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo's inner circle have been indicted for crimes relating to the post-electoral crisis that left over 3,000 dead.
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — Sierra Leone’s main opposition party has named retired Brig. Gen. Julius Maada Bio as its candidate for presidential elections next year. The...
CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) - At least one member of his security detail was killed, several more were wounded and portions of his house were destroyed, said...
MONROVIA, Liberia — Football star George Weah returned to Liberia to a hero’s welcome after receiving a degree in business administration from DeVry University in Miami....
CAIRO — An Egyptian foreign ministry official says Egypt will recognize South Sudan after secession later this week. Mohammed Mursi told the Al-Ahram daily on Tuesday...
African nations will not execute an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant issued for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, an African Union summit decided Friday. The summit...
