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  • Zambia: President Issues Special Security Order After Riots

    ZAMBIA, 2016/04/29 Zambia’s President Edgar Lungu has issued a appropriate operational order to the security services to replace law and order in some parts of the capital, Lusaka. This, the government says, is to stop the recent spate of ritual murders, which resulted in riots in some townships. The government as well says the riots led to rumors that were responsible for xenophobic attacks on foreigners, their businesses and property. Some Zambian youth attacked foreigners and their shops following rumors that the shop owners had been engaging in ritual murders, which enabled their businesses to flourish.
  • Malawi: Mutharika 'Furious' With Embassy Fraud As GovtRecalls Its Envoys in Kenya, Zambia, Japan

    MALAWI, 2016/04/29 Malawi government has recalled its envoys from Kenya, Zambia and Japan and relocating some amidst statement that President Peter Mutharika is "absolutely furious" with the fraud at Malawi mission in Addis Ababa and has called for thorough investigations. The recalled diplomats are former Reserve Bank of Malawi governor Perks Ligoya who was serving in Kenya barely a year next being relocated from India. He will be restored by Reverend Mwanamveka who is redeployed from Japan embassy where he is working as initial secretary. As well recalled is David Bandawe, the Malawi envoy in Zambia and Brigadier Reuben Ngwenya from Japan.
  • Burundi says 'fine' with request for U.N. police deployment

    BURUNDI, 2016/04/04 Burundi accepts the United Nations security council's resolution to send in police, the foreign affairs minister told Reuters on Saturday, next months of political tension. The 15-member council unanimously adopted on Friday a French-drafted resolution asking U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to offer options for a police deployment to Burundi, where violence threatens to spiral into ethnic conflict. President Pierre Nkurunziza said last April he would seek a third term, which his opponents said was illegal. Since again, at least 439 people have been killed and additional than 250,000 have fled.
  • Elections in Uganda No jam today

    UGANDA, 2016/02/21 UGANDA’S president likes to keep people waiting. In a marquee in the grounds of a swanky hotel in Kampala, about 150 smartly dressed bigwigs were treated to a buffet breakfast. It helped pass the time until 12.30pm, at the same time as Yoweri Museveni finally turned up to launch a half solar-powered electric bus. The Kayoola bus, designed by Kiira Motors, a national-owned firm, trundled around the hotel car park in front of a pack of cameras. Mr Museveni, clad in his trademark bright yellow shirt and wide-brimmed hat, again ambled back to the marquee to listen to tributes. The photo opportunity, two days before the country’s presidential election on February 18th, presented a contrast to events a few miles down the road the previous night. There police had fired tear gas and rubber bullets at supporters of Mr Museveni’s major electoral rival, Kizza Besigye (pictured riding pillion). One person was killed and Mr Besigye, who had been briefly detained before that day, was taken home before he could address a rally.
  • Africa's election year 2015: A long way to democracy?

    AFRICA, 2016/01/07 For the initial time in Nigeria's history, a sitting president was defeated and accepted the outcome of the election. He later willingly handed over power to his major rival. In this case it was Goodluck Jonathan handing over power to Muhammadu Buhari. Six months later it was Burkina Faso's turn to elect its new leader. Voters endured long queues at polling stations to elect a new leader, knowing that this time their vote counted, unlike in the completed three decades under Blaise Compaore's policy at the same time as the results were long certain.
  • Zambia – 11 August set as election date; government scraps power price rise

    ZAMBIA, 2016/01/05 August 11 set as date for elections in Zambia as President Edgar Lungu, who plans to stand again, scraps sharp power price increase saying it is hurting the poor Zambia’s new constitution on Monday set August 11 as the date for five-yearly presidential and parliamentary elections, before set by the president, lining up an extra close vote next last year’s neck-and-neck race. As well on Monday, President Edgar Lungu, who plans to stand in the election, reversed a sharp increase in electricity tariffs, saying the hike had ended up hurting the poor, presidential spokesperson Amos Chanda said on Monday.
  • President Paul Kagame being shown by an official partial results of December's referendum.

    RWANDA, 2016/01/02 Rwanda's President Paul Kagame has confirmed that he will seek re-election for a third term in 2017. The announcement was expected next a referendum approved constitutional changes to allow him to run for three further terms and could potentially see him to remain in power until 2034. President Kagame said Rwandans had made clear they wanted him to lead the country next 2017, and he could only accept. He has dominated Rwandan politics since his rebel army ended the 1994 genocide.
  • Former Burundi leader says solution to crisis lies in 2005 peace accord

    BURUNDI, 2016/01/02 Former Burundi President Domitien Ndayizeye says the solution to the current crisis in the east African country lay in the Arusha Peace Accords that ended the 1993-2005 civil war. Ndayizeye who served as Burundi president from 2003 to 2005, told Xinhua in a recent interview that the gruesome 1993-2005 civil war birthed the Arusha Accords which spelt out the next of Burundi. "The next of Burundi is constructed in that agreement. We wrote the Constitution according to the spirit and content of the accord," he said in a little while next the launch of the resumption of peace talks aimed at ending the current spate of fighting.
  • Seychelles Presidential Race Heading for Run-Off Within 14 Days

    SEYCHELLES, 2015/12/08 Seychelles eligible voters will once again be called to the polls from Wednesday December 16 to Friday December 18, 2015 in a second round of voting. None of the the six candidates contesting the island country's presidential elections held from December 3 to 5, 2015 could win the 50 % plus one votes that was needed for an outright majority in the initial round. The contest in two week's time will be between the incumbent President James Michel, Leader of the ruling 'Parti Lepep' and Leader of the Seychelles National Party Wavel Ramkalawan who have secured the majority votes. Next a long night's wait, the island country's Electoral Commission announced the results close to 5 am at its headquarters in the Seychelles Capital of Victoria.
  • South Sudan: Peace Deal Reached With ‘Arrow Boys’

    SOUTH SUDAN, 2015/11/20 “This is a millstone today to see that the two parties from the government and South Sudan National Liberation Movement have signed a preliminary peace agreement to end the suffering of the citizens of Western Equatoria national”, said Monsignor Eduard Hiiboro, Bishop of the diocese of Tombura-Yambio with a key mediating role, defining the signing of a peace transaction yesterday in Yabio County. The government and South Sudan National Liberation Movement (SSNLM) committed to end fighting to allow the return home and to the fields of thousands forced to flee. The SSNLM gained consensus on a local level due as well to violations and abuses committed by Juba’s military. The armed wing of the movement consists in units of “arrow boys”, which are based in the bush and forests.