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Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has been elected Namibia's first ever after winning 57 per cent in the eletions of November 27.
Africa

Namibia gets first female president

Wednesday, December 04, 2024
Malawi Electoral Commission is expected to use the new system for conducting voter registration, managing the transfer of voters, and inspecting the voters' register. Net photo
Africa

Malawi adopts new technology for 2025 polls

Friday, August 23, 2024
A military court in Kinshasa on Thursday, August 8, handed down the death penalty to former electoral commission boss Corneille Nangaa and more than two dozen other members of the rebel group. INTERNET
Africa

DR Congo: Military court sentences Alliance Fleuve Congo leaders to death

Friday, August 09, 2024
Nearly 100 police officers from DR Congo fled to neighbouring Uganda over the weekend as fighting between M23 rebels and the military in DR Congo's east intensified. Courtesy
Africa

Over 90 DR Congo police officers with guns, ammo flee to Uganda as fighting intensifies

Tuesday, August 06, 2024
M23 spokesperson Lawrence Kanyuka during an interview with Harvard scholar Bojana Coulibaly. PHOTO BY TEDDY MAZINA
Africa

Explainer: Who are the M23 rebels in DR Congo?

Monday, July 22, 2024
Victoire Ingabire was convicted of serious crimes and sentenced to 15 years in prison and was pardoned after serving slightly over half her jail term. File

Ingabire seeks to be ‘absent presence’ on ballot

Tuesday, May 28, 2024
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Politics

Eastern Province: RPF members pledge high turn up in July polls

Monday, May 13, 2024
People register to vote at a voting station in Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa, Nov. 18, 2023. (Photo by Ihsaan HaffejeeXinhua
Africa

South Africa's constitutional court bars 3 political parties from contesting elections

Saturday, May 11, 2024
Rebel spokesperson Lt Col Willy Ngoma said Rubaya fell into the hands of rebel fighters following clashes with government troops.
Africa

DR Congo: M23 rebels seize key town of Rubaya, insist on ‘stopping genocide’

Thursday, May 02, 2024
Speaking during the 30th Commemoration of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in London, on April 25, Rwanda's envoy to the UK, Johnston Busingye, said the Genocide against the Tutsi didn’t start with the machetes of April 1994. It started decades earlier with state directed ethnic populism, classification, discrimination, dehumanization, over time, all done with unimaginable impunity, he said.
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No Genocide happens without a plan, preparation, state involvement – Rwandan envoy

Friday, April 26, 2024
In a wide-ranging interview in Kigali, President Paul Kagame discusses M23, accusations of human rights violations, finding a successor, AU reform, and the UK migrant deal. PHOTO BY VILLAGE URUGWIRO
Africa

Kagame: ‘DRC thought the East African Force was there to fight its wars’

Wednesday, March 27, 2024
South Sudan President Salva Kiir. The country descended into a bloody civil war shortly after independence in 2011 following a political disagreement between President Kiir and his then-deputy, Riek Machar, that killed about 400,000 people, according to the UN. Internet
Africa

South Sudan appeals for funds to conduct elections

Friday, February 09, 2024