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Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is in a good position to become the first African to head the World Trade Organization. According to sources, the majority of EU member states voted in favor of her taking the top job. But no decision has been taken yet. WTO members are choosing between Nigeria’s former finance minister and South Korea’s Yoo Myung-hee, 53, the… Read More

Felicien Kabuga, who is suspected of financing the 1994 Rwandan genocide and evaded arrest for over 22 years is one step closer to facing justice. On Monday, he was moved from France to the Hague to stand trial. “His initial appearance will be held in due course before a judge of the trial chamber assigned to his case,” the United… Read More

Although elections won’t be held in Zambia for another 10 months, the battle lines already being drawn over the country’s debt woes could make them the issue to topple the longtime incumbent. Presidential and parliamentary polls on August 12, 2021 will mark the sixth attempt by opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema, 58, to claim the top job. Meanwhile 63-year-old Edgar Lungu… Read More

The saga in Guinea’s election continues. Despite the national electoral authority declaring Alpha Conde the winner with over 59 percent of the vote for the October 18 election, it’s being contested. Four of the 17 electoral commissioners said they found “serious anomalies” in the organisation of the presidential election, which affected the provisional results. They released a 22-page report on… Read More

With just days until the Ivory Coast presidential election, campaigning is unusually quiet this year as the spectres of the 2010 post-election violence, which killed thousands of people, still haunt the population. “Frankly you don’t feel an upcoming election in the countryside, because people are fearful. Everyone just has to go and get their voter card to vote, that’s what… Read More

About 100 people were arrested following violent anti-government protests this weekend in the Angolan capital Luanda, a senior government official said Sunday. Riot police fired tear gas and beat protesters to break up demonstrations involving about 2,000 people. Demonstrators erected barricades along the roads using dumpsters, rocks, tree trunks and burning tires. Others set a national flag on fire. Interior… Read More

Zanzibar held huge rallies Sunday ahead of a presidential election, after the opposition raised fears of fraud in the semi-autonomous archipelago that has a history of contested polls. Tens of thousands of people dressed in green and yellow gathered at the far larger ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) rally just outside of the capital Stone Town, while the opposition meeting… Read More

Escorted by security forces, hundreds of people held a procession through Kumba town in southwest Cameroon, the site of a school attacked by gunmen on Saturday. At least seven children were killed in the raid according to officials. People carried placards denouncing the attack, while calling for an end to the violence which has gripped the region since 2017. “Instead… Read More

Hundreds attended a rally by Seif Sharif Hamad of the opposition Alliance for Change and Transparency, ahead of Tanzania’s general election on Wednesday. Hamad is vying for the presidency of Zanzibar, a semi-autonmous archipelago ruled by Dar-es-salaam. But Zanzibar, just as mainland Tanzania has been hostile ground for the opposition. Just before Hamad’s rally, the party’s chief campaigner on the… Read More

Security forces patrolled the mostly deserted streets of the Guinean capital Conakry on Saturday. Debris and smouldering garbage marked the aftermath of afternoon clashes between supporters of Cellou Diallo and the Police. President Alpha Conde was declared winner of last Sunday’s vote with nearly 60%. Speaking from his house where he’s barricaded since Monday by security forces, opposition leader Cellou… Read More