Ivory Coast’s presidential candidates have all accepted a voter list produced by the electoral commission, the prime minister said on Monday, a sign that a poll delayed for five years may finally take place. “I’m happy to tell you that we are all agreed on the definitive electoral list,” Prime Minister Guillaume Soro told journalists [...]
According to Obasanjo who was speaking at a forum in Ghana at the weekend, he was kept waiting for over three hours by immigration officials. He said the reason for the delay was that he told the officials, who did not recognise him as former president of Nigeria, that he was a farmer when they [...]
Four political parties have formed a coalition called the Ethiopian Democratic Forces Coalition. The Coalition said that the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) has done better work to win the 2010 national elections. The Oromo National Congress, All Ethiopians National Movement, Ethiopian Democratic Unity Movement and All Oromo People’s Democratic Party formed the coalition. [...]
Rwandan President Paul Kagame rejected on Monday accusations he has failed to safeguard human rights and vowed not to let Western critics of his rule influence the path of the central African country. Kagame won 93 percent support in a presidential election last month after a campaign that opposition leaders and rights watchdogs said was [...]
President Jacob Zuma has fiercely defended his family’s involvement in lucrative business deals and denied that his relatives were using their proximity to his office to acquire mineral rights from the state. In an exclusive interview with the Sunday Times this week, Zuma also slammed those who have begun lobbying for his ousting as ANC [...]
As the D-Day chosen by President Goodluck Jonathan to openly declare his intention to contest the 2011 election draws nearer, strategists for the presidential campaign have intensified measures that would ensure that the president maintains a clear win in five of the six geo-political zones during the presidential primaries. trategists in the presidential camp, who [...]
WHAT are President Goodluck Jonathan’s hobbies? Fishing is not likely to be one of them. Fishing is the major occupation of his people in Bayelsa State and the president dissected many fishes while at university. He must now be sick of the smell of dead fish. Dr Jonathan now happily, even greedily, inhales the aroma [...]
There are strong indications that former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, may emerge the director general of President Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation which will be unfolded next week. Sources close to the workings of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the government confirmed that pressure is being mounted from within the [...]
Politicians from northern Nigeria on Friday accused President Goodluck Jonathan of ordering corruption investigations against those opposed to his candidacy in upcoming elections. The country’s anti-graft agency strongly disputed the accusation, which comes amid divisions in Jonathan’s ruling Peoples Democratic Party over whether he should represent it in elections expected in January. Jonathan has not [...]
THE HAGUE — The International Criminal Court held talks with Nairobi Friday about cooperation following the investigations into violence in Kenya after disputed 2007 elections, the court said. ICC registrar Silvana Arbia and Kenyan Foreign Minister Moses Wetangula exchanged letters that “open the way to effective work by the court in Kenya”, the ICC, based [...]
