Nairobi News
Talks to name cabinet underway.
Talks are underway between incumbent president Mwai Kibaki of the Party of National Unity (PNU) and Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leader Raila Odinga to pick a new cabinet. However a first meeting...
Accra News
On 7 December Ghanaians will go to the polls to elect their next president and parliament.
The presidential candidates for the main political parties are already campaigning across the country as th...
Nairobi News
Kenya parliament fast-tracks power-sharing deal.
Kenya could have a new coalition government as early as the week beginning 17 March following the approval by parliamentary speaker Kenneth Marende of a motion to fast-track the requisite laws. Member...
Nairobi News
Members of parliament gathered in Nairobi on 6 March for the state opening of parliament exactly one week after the signing of a power-sharing deal to end the political deadlock triggered by the dispu...
Nairobi News
Opposition leader Raila Odinga and incumbent president Mwai Kibaki have signed a power-sharing agreement signalling an end to the political impasse triggered by the disputed presidential elections of...
Nairobi News
The new mayor of Nairobi is Godffrey Odihambo Majiwa of the main opposition party Orange Democratic Movement (ODM). Majiwa took the same number of votes as his Party of National Unity (PNU) rival John...
Nairobi News
Chief mediator Kofi Annan has suspended talks to end the political impasse sparked by the disputed presidential elections and called on the country
Cairo News
Egyptians will go to the polls on 8 April to vote for their town, city, district and provincial councils. The elections, which will take place from 08.00 until 19.00, should have been held in 2006 but...
Nairobi News
Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Kenya?
One of the proposals under consideration by negotiators seeking a political settlement to the crisis sparked by the disputed 27 December presidential elections is the formation of a Truth and Reconcil...
Nairobi News
Kibaki under pressure to share power.
One and a half months after going to the polls Kenyans still do not know who really won the presidential race. They are now waiting with baited breath for the last word from former United Nations secr...
Nairobi News
Independent panel to review polls.
Government and opposition representatives have agreed to set up an independent committee to review the disputed December elections, the chief mediator Kofi Annan has said.
The review panel should be...
Addis Ababa News
Ethiopians will go to the polls in April to elect both their local government representatives and fill the parliamentary seats left vacant by the opposition following the general elections of May 2005...
Nairobi News
Mayoral elections on 25 February.
Kenya faces a new round of voting on 25 February when councillors elected or nominated to the country
Nairobi News
Kenya faces a new round of voting on 25 February when councillors elected or nominated to the country
Nairobi News
Kenya crisis: cautious optimism as negotiations continue.
The mood in Kenya is one of cautious optimism as the negotiations between the parties in the political dispute triggered by December
Nairobi News
Kenya crisis leaves over 1,000 dead.
Over 1,000 Kenyans are now known to have died in violence sparked by the disputed presidential election of 27 December, the Kenyan Red Cross has said. The humanitarian organisation also says that more...
Nairobi News
Key negotiator withdraws from crisis talks.
Efforts to find a solution to the crisis in Kenya have suffered another setback following the withdrawal of a key mediator from the peace process.
South African lawyer and businessman Cyril Ramaphos...
