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Cape Town News

Zuma leads AU peace delegation to Libya

An African Union (AU) delegation led by South African president Jacob Zuma has met Libya's Muammar Qaddafi in the country's capital Tripoli in an attempt to broker a ceasefire between the rebels and t...
Lagos News

Nigeria’s ruling party faces electoral losses

Early results from Nigeria's parliamentary election on 9 April suggest that the governing People's Democratic Party (PDP) has suffered considerable losses and its majority in both houses of the nation...
Lagos News

New schedule for Nigerian elections

Parliamentary elections in Nigeria have now been postponed for a week and are scheduled on 9 April, which means that the presidential elections and state elections, originally set on 9 April and 16 Ap...
Lagos News

Nigeria’s parliamentary elections delayed

Parliamentary elections in Nigeria have been postponed until Monday 4 April because of the delay in the delivery to many parts of the country of tally sheets for recording both the voting results and...
Addis Ababa News

Crackdown on Ethiopian opposition

Reports of several hundred arrests of supporters of Ethiopia
Nairobi News

New head for Nairobi United Nations offices

The United Nations has appointed Ms Sahlework Zewde from Ethiopia to head the United Nations office in Nairobi with the high rank of under-secretary general. She has been appointed directly by the sec...
Addis Ababa News

Addis Ababa voting registration extended

The National Electoral Board of Ethiopia has extended by one week the registration for voting in Addis Ababa
Lagos News

Fashola intensifies re-election campaign in Lagos

The governor of Lagos Babatunde Fashola of the main opposition party Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has intensified his campaign to be re-elected in the upcoming governorship election in April....
Addis Ababa News

New US Embassy in Addis Ababa

The US embassy in Ethiopia has been relocated to a safer location on Entoto Road overlooking Addis Ababa. Housing both the US embassy to Ethiopia and the US mission to the African Union, the chancery...
Cairo News

Mubarak goes

The end came unexpectedly. Anyone watching ex-president Hosni Mubarak on television on the evening of 10 February would never have imaged that less than 24 hours later he would have left Cairo for goo...
Cairo News

Expectation high that Mubarak is to announce resignation

Expectations are high in Egypt that President Mubarak is about to announce his resignation. A television appearance is scheduled and the high council of the armed forces is in continuous session in or...
Cairo News

Mubarak carries on

A roar went up from the square, of anger. About a minute into the president
Lagos News

Nigeria's voter registration extended

Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) extended its voter registration by two days until 7 February 2011 to facilitate those who have yet to enroll in the electoral register for th...
Cairo News

Mubarak government launches media offensive

To the background of continuing clashes in Cairo's central Tahrir Square between the supporters of President Murbarak and his opponents the presidential machine launched a combined public relations c...
Cairo News

Violence in Cairo leaves hundreds of injured

Several hundreds have been injured and at least one person dead in Cairo, according to news reports from Al Jezeera, as a result of clashes between supporters of President Mubarak and demonstrators wh...
Cairo News

The protest of the millions

No trains, no buses, no internet and no mobile phone connections have not deterred over a million demonstrators turning out in Cairo and across the country to demand the removal of Egypt
Addis Ababa News

African Union supports Kenya’s case against the ICC

The African Union (AU) has decided to support Kenya
Cairo News

Demonstrations into second week in Cairo

Demonstrators in Cairo continue to defy both a strict curfew and the deployment of military force on the ground and in the air after the appointment of two military men as President Hosni Mubarak
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