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2009-07-03, Issue 440
This latest policy briefing from the International Crisis Group, examines the fragile 2007 Ouagadougou Peace Agreement, which ended five years of fighting and territorial partition between the government and the rebel “Forces Nouvelles”. National and...
Niger: UN chief urges restraint, dialogue on crisis
2009-07-03, Issue 440
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has voiced concern over the political and constitutional crisis in Niger, calling for restraint and political dialogue to resolve the issue. In a statement issued at the UN headquarters in New York, Ban said he was “d...
Guinea: Former Prime Ministe released
2009-07-03, Issue 440
Former Guinea Prime Minister Dr Ahmed Tidiane Soumare was released on Wednesday morning after being detained for a few hours at Peleton Mobile 3 (PM3), a garrison of the gendarmerie in Conakry, according to his immediate family. The former head of th...
Guinea-Bissau: Elections head for run-off
2009-07-03, Issue 440
Elections in Guinea-Bissau to replace assassinated President Joao Bernardo Vieira are to go to a second round, the electoral commissioner says. Mr Vieira was killed in March in apparent revenge for the death of the head of the army in a bomb blast. T...
Guinea-Bissau: Election a test for region’s stability
2009-06-25, Issue 439
Guinea-Bissau’s election on Sunday to replace its slain president will be a test for West Africa’s ability to stop the retreat of democracy as well as for a state destabilised by drug smugglers and army rivalries. The fact the vote is happening at al...
Guinea-Bissau: Beyond rule of the gun
2009-06-25, Issue 439
This latest policy briefing from the International Crisis Group warns that the killings of General Tagme (the chief of defence staff) and President Vieira in March, as well as the recent assassinations of opposition leaders and former ministers, are ...
Morocco: New political party sweeps local elections
2009-06-26, Issue 439
The new Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) edged out the Istiqlal Party on Friday (June 12th) to win the greatest number of seats in Morocco's communal elections. The accomplishment may change the political landscape in Morocco. According to a Sa...
Madagascar: SADC steps in to mediate
2009-06-26, Issue 439
Where many have tried and failed, now the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has called on Madagascar’s political rivals to consider peaceful dialogue to end months of political crisis. Heads of State of the 15-nation regional body met in ...
Zanzibar: 12 opposition parties form new alliance
2009-06-19, Issue 438
Twelve political parties operating in Zanzibar yesterday revived their ‘alliance’ vowing to win the next Zanzibar general elections by strengthening the partnership including placing one candidate for presidency. “There is no way we can manage to rem...
Niger: Former PM calls for “political responsibility”
2009-06-19, Issue 438
Niger's former Prime Minister, Hama Amadou, has urged the country's political class to exhibit more responsibility in a bid to avoid some "useless rifts" about the debate on President Mamadou Tandja's bid to change the constitution through a referend...
Africa: Comoros to hold legislative, local government elections on 2 August
2009-06-19, Issue 438
The Comoros autonomous islands will hold legislative and local government elections on 2 August, the permanent representative of the African Union (AU) in Moroni, Mourad Taiati has told journalists. The AU official, who was speaking at the end of a m...
Gabon: Will Bongo's death signal a new chapter?
2009-06-19, Issue 438
As Omar Bongo Ondimba, the Gabonese president who died at age 73 in Barcelona on Jun. 8, is buried in Franceville in the south-west of Gabon on Thursday, his 41-year-reign as absolute ruler of this oil-producing country of 1.5 million has received mi...
Africa: Attitudes to democracy building in Africa
2009-06-19, Issue 438
The central questions addressed in this bulletin concern the fate of democracy, especially as seen by Africans themselves. Do they say they want democracy, a preference that we call the popular demand for democracy? And do they think they are getting...
Gabon: Interim leader sworn in
2009-06-12, Issue 437
The speaker of the senate in Gabon has been sworn in as the country's interim head of state, following the recent death of President Omar Bongo. Under the constitution, Rose Francine Rogombe, an ally of Mr Bongo, must organise elections within 45 day...
Madagascar: Armed forces on top alert
2009-06-12, Issue 437
Madagascar's armed forces are on maximum alert, days after African economic bloc COMESA declared military intervention to end the island's political crisis remained an option, the government said on Friday. Armed Forces Minister Noel Rakotonandrasana...
North Africa: Moroccans go to the polls
2009-06-12, Issue 437
Moroccans began voting on Friday in a local election where the government of conservatives and socialists aims to limit gains by opposition Islamists and a new party formed by staunch backers of King Mohammed. It is the second local election of the r...
Guinea-Bissau: Candidate shot dead
2009-06-05, Issue 436
The security forces in Guinea-Bissau have shot dead a minister and candidate in this month's presidential elections. The authorities say Baciro Dabo died in an exchange of fire when he resisted arrest over an alleged coup plot. But his supporters say...
Madagascar: Ex-leader rejects jail sentence
2009-06-05, Issue 436
Madagascar's former leader Marc Ravalomanana rejected on Friday the jail sentence against him for abuse of office and accused the country's army-backed government of flouting rule of law. Exiled in South Africa, Ravalomanana called on the Malagasy pe...
Madagascar: Wade meets Madagascar’s Rajoelina
2009-05-29, Issue 435
Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade on Thursday granted audience to the head of Madagascar’s transitional authority, Andry Rajoelina, the Senegalese press Agency (APS) reported. “I am leaving with a feeling of relief in the sense that the situation w...
Nigeria: Democracy endures 10 years after military rule
2009-05-29, Issue 435
A decade after Nigeria's last military ruler ordered his troops to "forever resist the seduction and temptation of political power", democracy still has a fragile hold on Africa's most populous nation. Nigerians marked 10 straight years of civilian r...
Niger: Leader dissolves parliament
2009-05-29, Issue 435
Niger's president has dissolved parliament after the country's constitutional court ruled against plans to hold a referendum on whether to allow him a third term in office. Mamadou Tandja gave the order to dissolve the legislature on Tuesday, hours a...
Somalia: Somaliland parties agree on election date
2009-05-29, Issue 435
The Somaliland political parties have signed an agreement with the Electoral Commission to fix an election date in the Horn of Africa state. The agreement which is derived from a series of negotiations among the political parties and the electoral co...
Mauritania: 'Presidential election will not be postponed'
2009-05-22, Issue 433
General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, former leader of the ruling military junta in Mauritania, who is contesting the controversial 6 June election, says the vote would not be postponed. General Aziz, who resigned his position as President on 15 April to ...
Malawi: Results of Malawi elections delayed – Electoral Commission
2009-05-22, Issue 433
The Malawi Electoral Commission on Wednesday said declaration of results of the general elections had delayed because of confusion about where to send the final results, according to its chairman, Supreme Court judge, Justice Anastazia Msosa. She sai...
Guinea-Bissau: 13 cleared to contest presidential election
2009-05-22, Issue 433
Guinea-Bissau's Supreme Court on Wednesday cleared Pedro Nfanda to contest the 28 June presidential election. This brings to 13 the number of candidates who want to succeed President Joao Bernardo “Nino” Vieira, who was assassinated on 2 March. The c...
Côte d’Ivoire: UN mission urges prompt resumption of voter registration
2009-05-22, Issue 433
The United Nations Mission in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI) has called for a prompt resumption of voter registration to allow for broad participation in the November presidential elections. UNOCI spokesman Hamadoun Toure told reporters in Abidjan that the Mi...
Gabon: Fear of military takeover
2009-05-22, Issue 433
As the very grave health condition of the 73 years old Gabonese President Omar Bongo is confirmed, speculations over his succession are growing in numbers. Will it be a family affair as in Togo, or will it be a coup like in Guinea?...
Madagascar: UN proposes neutral, peaceful transition
2009-05-15, Issue 432
International mediators led by UN special envoy Tiebile Drame have called for a neutral, peaceful and consensual transition in Madagascar before the next national election in 14 months. According to a draft agreement, the mediators tasked the transit...
Cote d'Ivoire: Presidential election planned for 29 November
2009-05-15, Issue 432
The first ballot in the presidential election in Côte d'Ivoire will take place on 29 November 2009, sources at the Council of ministers at the presidential palace, said on Thursday in Abidjan....
Togo: Presidential elections for February, March, 2010
2009-05-15, Issue 432
Togo will hold presidential elections between 18 February and 5 March, 2010, a statement by Aboudou Assouma, chairman of the Constitutional Court, issued on Thursday in Lomé said....
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