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Dar Es Salaam News

Politics 07 Nov, 2010

Jakaya Kikwete was sworn in for his second term as president of Tanzania on 6 November having won 5,276,827 votes or 61.1 per cent of the total turnout. Willibrord Slaa, Kikwete

Lagos News

Lagos doctors’ strike continues

Politics 04 Nov, 2010

Doctors in federal run hospitals in Lagos joined their state colleagues in a three-day sympathy strike in the first week of November, bringing most of Lagos publicly run hospitals to a halt. The L...

Dar Es Salaam News

Vote counting slow in Tanzanian elections

Politics 01 Nov, 2010

With vote counting going slowly after the presidential and parliamentary elections in Tanzania on 31 October tension is rising across the country. The incumbent president, Jakaya Kikwete, for the...

Dar Es Salaam News

Tanzanians ready for 2010 elections

Politics 29 Oct, 2010

Tanzanians go to the polls on 31 October to elect the president and 232 new members of parliament, or Bunge. Jakaya Kikwete, the incumbent president, for the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi party (CCM)...

Dar Es Salaam News

Tanzania goes to the polls

Politics 29 Oct, 2010

Wilibrord Peter Slaa, born on 29 October 1948 at Kwermusi, Mbulu, in the region of Arusha, is the strongest opposition candidate for the presidency of Tanzania in the elections on 31 October. He repre...

Dar Es Salaam News

Kikwete loses ground to opposition parties in Tanzanian election campaign

Politics 17 Oct, 2010

With less than two weeks to go before the presidential and parliamentary elections in Tanzania on 31 October the polls disagree about how far the incumbent president Jakaya Kikwete is ahead in the rac...

Ethiopian's popular opposition leader released from prison

Addis Ababa News

Politics 05 Oct, 2010

One of Ethiopian

Cape Town News

Cosatu protests demolition of Hout Bay shacks

Politics 29 Sep, 2010

The Congress of South African Trade Unions, (Cosatu) has called for demonstrations in favour of settlers living in illegally-built shacks along a part of Hout Bay about 20 km south of Cape Town. The c...

Lagos News

Nigeria celebrates 50 years of independence

Politics 26 Sep, 2010

Nigeria celebrates the golden jubilee of its independence on 1 October with a series of events that include art exhibitions, plays, sporting activities and religious services. On 30 September, the eve...

Nairobi News

Kenyan government agrees terms for ICC office in Nairobi

Politics 05 Sep, 2010

The Kenyan government has now signed the terms of agreement with the International Criminal Court (ICC) for setting up its office in Nairobi to look into the post-election violence that left about 1,5...

Nairobi News

Kenya’s census figures contested

Politics 03 Sep, 2010

The results of Kenya

Nairobi News

Commonwealth summit in Nairobi

Politics 03 Sep, 2010

10 - 19 September 2010. Nairobi is hosting the 56th plenary conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) at the Kenyatta international conference centre. Between 800 and 1,000 de...

Maputo News

Maputo protests end in deaths

Politics 01 Sep, 2010

Riots over rising food and fuel prices have led to deaths on the streets of Maputo. Mozambique's private television station S-TV reported that six people, including two children, had been killed, whil...

Nairobi News

Kenya government divided on Al-Bashir invitation

Politics 29 Aug, 2010

In the wake of what was expected to be a triumphant ceremony for the signing of the new constitution in Nairobi on 27 August the Kenyan government is having to defend itself from questions and protest...

Nairobi News

Signing Kenya’s new constitution

Politics 23 Aug, 2010

The signing ceremony for Kenya

Lagos News

New Voter Register for 2011 Nigerian elections

Politics 09 Aug, 2010

Nigeria's Independent Electoral Commission has announced that, subject to government funding, a new voters' register could be established in time for the next general elections in January 2011. Ce...

Nairobi News

Kenyans back new constitution

Politics 04 Aug, 2010

Kenyans voted by 6,016,550 votes to 2,712,952, or 68.9 per cent to 31.1 per cent, in favour of the new constitution in the 4 August referendum according to official results from 206 out of 210 constit...

Nairobi News

Polling peaceful in Kenya referendum

Politics 03 Aug, 2010

Vote counting is underway at polling stations across Kenya following the referendum on the new draft constitution, which surveys suggest will be approved. Despite reports of tension in the run-up t...

Nairobi News

Kenya prepares to vote on new constitution

Politics 02 Aug, 2010

On 4 August Kenyans are called to take part in a referendum on a proposed new constitution that has divided politicians and the country. 12.4 million Kenyans out of a total population of around 40...

Lagos News

Nigerian elections to be held in January 2011

Politics 28 Jul, 2010

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