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Nairobi News

Kenya mourns death of George Saitoti

Kenya has declared three days of mourning after the country's internal security minister George Saitoti died in a helicopter crash in the Ngong hills outside Nairobi on 11 June. Five other people l...
Cairo News

Mubarak ruling leads to protests in Cairo

There have been mass protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square following the news on 2 June that former president Hosni Mubarak received a life sentence for his failure to halt the killing of protesters durin...
Cairo News

Shafiq’s Cairo office set ablaze after election results

The Cairo campaign headquarters of Ahmed Shafiq were set on fire on 28 May only hours after it was confirmed that Shafiq would face Mohammed Mursi in the run-off of Egypt
Cairo News

Egyptians vote for president

Egyptians have begun to cast their votes in elections on 23 May to determine which of the 12 presidential candidates will become their future leader. It is the first time that ordinary Egyptians ha...
Accra News

Britain to train Ghana police

  Britain has provided funding for the training of 16,000 police officers in Ghana ahead of the country's upcoming parliamentary elections on 28 December. The two-week election security tra...
Cairo News

Cairo curfew shortened

Egypt’s ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) has shortened a nightly curfew in Cairo's central Abbasiya district, where violent scenes on 4 May resulted in one death and 373 wounded...
Cairo News

Violent clashes in Cairo leave 11 dead

11 people have been killed in Cairo after protesters were attacked outside Egypt's defence ministry in the capital's Abbasiya district on 2 May. In addition to the fatalities, 150 people were injur...
Arusha News

EAC heads of state meet in Arusha

The tenth Extraordinary Summit of the East African Community (EAC) Heads of State takes place in Arusha, at the Ngurdoto Mountain Lodge, on 28 April.   Those attending the event include t...
Cairo News

Egyptian presidential candidates lose disqualification appeal

Ten candidates have lost their appeal against disqualification from running in Egypt’s presidential elections, scheduled for 23 and 24 May. The Supreme Presidential Electoral Commission (SPEC...
Cairo News

Three leading candidates appeal ban from Egypt's presidential race

Three candidates for the presidency in Egypt have filed appeals against the electoral commission’s decision to disqualify them from the coming election. Their appeals will be reviewed imminently...
Arusha News

Chadema makes progress in north Tanzania

Tanzania’s opposition party Chadema won a convincing victory against Tanzania’s governing CCM party in the Arumeru East by-election at the beginning of April. Chadema’s candidate Jos...
Cairo News

Egyptian presidential race heats up

The Muslim Brotherhood has announced that it is to nominate a candidate, Khairat al-Shater, in Egypt’s upcoming presidential election in late May. Until the end of March the party had refused...
Lagos News

Italy, Britain and Nigeria by James Walston

Not following the rules is fine as long as you succeed but when an operation fails, especially a military operation where lives are at stake, then there is inevitably a double blame – for th...
Cairo News

Egypt lifts travel ban on US pro-democracy workers

Egypt has lifted a travel ban on US pro-democracy activists, following the 29 February decision to adjourn the trial of 43 pro-democracy workers, which began in Cairo on 26 February.The ban had prohib...
Cairo News

Egypt lifts travel ban on US pro-democracy workers

Egypt has lifted a travel ban on US pro-democracy activists, following the 29 February decision to adjourn the trial of 43 pro-democracy workers, which began in Cairo on 26 February. The ban had pr...
Cairo News

Cairo trial of pro-democracy workers adjourned

The trial of 43 pro-democracy workers, including 16 Americans, which began in Cairo on 26 February, has been adjourned for two months. The defendants are charged with operating without licenses an...
Cairo News

NGO pro-democracy activists set for trial

The trial of 43 pro-democracy workers including up to 16 American citizens, charged with operating without licenses and receiving illicit funding, has been set for 26 February. Amid increasingly s...
Accra News

Ghana introduces biometric voter registration

Ghana is introducing a national programme of biometric voter registration for all Ghanaians over the age of 18, ahead of parliamentary elections in December. The registration process will be condu...
Accra News

Statue of Ghana’s first president unveiled at AU headquarters

A statue of Ghana's first president, Kwame Nkrumah, was unveiled in the grounds of the new African Union (AU) building in Addis Ababa on 29 January, ahead of the summit of Heads of State and Governmen...
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