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2010-02-05, Issue 468
A surprise intervention at the weekend by Ban Ki-Moon, the United Nations secretary-general, has drawn warnings from senior officials in south Sudan that any outside efforts to influence a referendum next year could lead to further conflict. Mr Ban t...
Nigeria: Political impasse may end soon
2010-02-05, Issue 468
Nigeria's long-drawn political impasse, caused by the failure of President Umaru Yar'Adua to transfer power to his deputy while on a prolonged medical treatment in Saudi Ara bia, may soon be over, if assurances given Thursday by one of his aides are ...
Angola: President dos Santos reshuffles cabinet
2010-02-05, Issue 468
Angolan head of state, José Eduardo dos Santos, formed a new government marked by the creation of the post of Vice-president of the Republic which will be occupied by the incumbent speaker of the National Assembly, Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos...
Nigeria: State poll tests depth of electoral reform
2010-02-05, Issue 468
One of Nigeria's most politically turbulent states goes to the polls on Saturday to elect a new governor in a vote seen as a test of the country's ability to hold credible national elections in 2011. vThe governorship vote in southeastern Anambra sta...
Kenya: PSC draft constitution 'lacks adequate checks and balances on the executive'
2010-02-05, Issue 468
The spirit in which Parliamentary Service Commissions in democratic countries exist is that of providing parliamentarians with the requisite support and resources to undertake their duty to citizens. The history of the Parliamentary Service Commissio...
Guinea: Junta leaders 'should be barred from unity government'
2010-01-29, Issue 467
Guinea's interim government should exclude key military officials suspected of involvement in the 28 September massacre of pro-democracy activists in the West African nation, an African Union lobby group has said....
Kenya: MPs opt to scrap prime minister position
2010-01-29, Issue 467
Kenyan MPs have agreed to scrap the position of prime minister in a draft constitution being drawn up as part of a power-sharing deal. The role was created following post-election riots in 2007 to allow coalition partners to share power....
Nigeria: Senate and cabinet at odds over ill Yar'Adua
2010-01-29, Issue 467
Nigeria's Senate and cabinet are at loggerheads over President Umaru Yar'Adua, who has spent two months in hospital in Saudi Arabia. The cabinet has declared that he is still capable of governing the country....
Sudan: Abuses undermine impending elections
2010-01-29, Issue 467
Violations of civil and political rights by Sudanese security forces throughout the country are seriously undermining prospects for free, fair, and credible elections in April 2010, Human Rights Watch has said....
Sudan: South Sudanese name poll candidate
2010-01-29, Issue 467
South Sudan's former rebels have chosen a northern Muslim as their candidate in April's presidential election, the country's first multiparty poll since 1986. The candidacy of Yassir Arman was announced by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement, whic...
Liberia: Mixed reaction over Sirleaf's 2011 participation
2010-01-29, Issue 467
Mixed reactions have marred Liberia following the recent announcement by President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf that she will run for re-election in 2011. Ms Sirleaf has said that she had not realised before the 2005 polls how much rebuilding work needed to...
Nigeria: Senate rejects state of emergency in troubled state
2010-01-22, Issue 466
The Nigerian Senate has unanimously rejected calls for the declaration of a fresh state of emergency in crisis-ridden north-central Plateau State. Plateau State had been engulfed in sectarian violence, which began Sunday in capital, Jos, and had clai...
Nigeria: More citizens demand quick resolution of current political crisis
2010-01-22, Issue 466
A group of 41 prominent Nigerians, led by former Senate President, Anyim Pius Anyim, were at the National Assembly in Abuja, the Nigerian Federal capital, urging lawmakers to take immediate steps to resolve the current political and constitutional c...
Southern Africa: Angola abolishes presidential polls in new constitution
2010-01-22, Issue 466
Angola's parliament has approved a new constitution which abolishes direct presidential elections. The head of state will now automatically be the leader of the party with the parliamentary majority....
North Africa: Sudan would accept separation, says President Bashir
2010-01-22, Issue 466
Sudan would accept the south's secession if southerners were to vote for independence in a referendum next year, President Omar al-Bashir said. Speaking at a ceremony marking five years since the end of the north-south war, he said his Northern Congr...
Guinea: Junta 'names civilian Dore as prime minister'
2010-01-22, Issue 466
Guinea's military rulers have chosen opposition leader Jean-Marie Dore to be prime minister, overseeing a return to civilian rule, officials say. Junta spokesman Idrissa Cherif said 70-year-old Mr Dore had "experience and understanding of Guinean pol...
Cote d'Ivoire: Electoral body admits errors
2010-01-22, Issue 466
Ivory Coast's electoral commission (CEI) has apologised for errors made in drawing up a voter list, saying thousands of names disputed by President Laurent Gbagbo were never intended to be on it....
Madagascar: AU compromise stresses power-sharing
2010-01-22, Issue 466
The African Union's top diplomat, Jean Ping, opened talks seeking an end to Madagascar's year-long political crisis with a call to its feuding leaders to respect last year's power-sharing deals....
Tunisia: President reshuffles cabinet
2010-01-15, Issue 465
Two months after being re-elected for a fifth five-year term, president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has reshuffled his cabinet with the departure of several known figures....
Guinea: Camara demands home return
2010-01-15, Issue 465
Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, Guinea’s wounded junta leader, feels he was tricked into taking a flight to Burkina Faso instead of going back to Guinea and is determined to get home, officials have said....
Sudan: SPLM leader Salva Kiir snubs national election
2010-01-15, Issue 465
South Sudan leader Salva Kiir is to seek re-election in that post rather than tackling Omar al-Bashir for the national presidency, his party says. The SPLM will instead field a northern Muslim, Yassir Arman, in the national elections due in April....
Cote d'Ivoire: Government to probe allegations of voters roll fraud
2010-01-15, Issue 465
Cote d'Ivoire's government has ordered an investigation into allegations of fraud by the electoral commission. Last weekend, President Laurent Gbagbo accused the commission of trying to register hundreds of thousands of ineligible people....
Madagascar: SADC throws out Rajoelina
2010-01-15, Issue 465
Leaders from the southern African region have urged the international community to reject plans by Madagascar's military-backed Andry Rajoelina to ignore power-sharing talks and hold an election....
Côte d'Ivoire: Elections under threat again
2010-01-15, Issue 465
Preparations for presidential elections scheduled for the end of February or the beginning of March - elections which have already been postponed numerous times since 2005 - have again reached an impasse in Côte d'Ivoire....
Nigeria: VP 'can act as president'
2010-01-15, Issue 465
A Nigerian court has ruled that Goodluck Jonathan, the vice-president, can take over the duties of the president, who has been sick, without a formal transfer of power....
Southern Africa: Angola to endorse new constitution
2010-01-15, Issue 465
Angolan legislators are expected to endorse the new constitution that will strengthen the three decades-long rule of President Jose Eduardo dos Santos. The vote comes earlier than expected as the nation reels from a deadly rebel attack last week. The...
Cote d'Ivoire: Konan Bédié announces manifesto for election
2010-01-08, Issue 464
The candidate of the Democratic Party of Cote d'Ivoire (PDCI) for the next presidential election, Henri Konan Bédié, has outlined his manifesto for the election saying he has identified '10 major challenges' likely to lead the country to prosperity....
Guinea: General Konaté vows peaceful transition
2010-01-08, Issue 464
The acting chairman of the Guinea's junta, the National Council for the Defence of Democracy (CNDD), General Sékouba Konaté, has vowed to create 'a new peaceful transition authority' that will soon set dates for elections....
Madagascar: Government warns of crackdown
2010-01-08, Issue 464
Madagascar’s government has said it will crack down on opposition leaders and their supporters, who reject plans for elections, if they provoke further civil unrest....
West Africa: Nigerians in diaspora write to Saudi king over Yar’Adua
2010-01-08, Issue 464
Nigerians in the diaspora have written a letter to Saudi King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud on the continued absence of President Yar’Adua from the country, demanding true information on the state of his health....
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