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  • Macdella Cooper has become the first woman to indicate interest in contesting the 2017 Liberia presidential elections

    LIBERIA, 2016/11/02 Liberia made history at the same time as it elected Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as Africa’s initial female chief of national in the country’s 2005 presidential elections. As President Sirleaf nears the end of her second term in office, Liberians are preparing to chief to the polls again for the 2017 elections. The West African country could once again make history by becoming the initial country in the world to elect a female president to succeed an extra one.

  • Malawi: President Mutharika Returns Home

    MALAWI, 2016/10/19 Preident Prof. Arthur Peter Mutharika arrived Sunday afternoon from the United National of America (USA) next attending the United Nationas General Asembly (UNGA). President Mutharika was welcomed by Vice Preident Dr. Saulos Chilima, Cabinet Ministers, diplomats and thousands ofother Malawinas at the Kamuzu International Airport.

  • Hope for Zimbabwe But Big Changes Needed

    ZIMBABWE, 2016/10/19 Harare — "It always seems impossible until it's done" said Nelson Mandela. He wasn't, but he could have been talking about the road to reform and recovery in Zimbabwe. As a foreigner here, you can truly feel the potential of Zimbabwe: its location, its natural assets, its climate and, above all, its smart, hard-working, and endlessly resilient people. Nothing would make me happier than for that potential to be fully realised. I remain optimistic about this country's long-term next. But like a lot of Zimbabweans I am worried about the short-term next, given the deteriorating economic situation and the lack of political will and space to have a critical, inclusive conversation about the reform that is necessary for recovery.

  • Deja vu in Congo as President Kabila clings to power

    CONGO KINSHASA, 2016/10/03 Zaire's President Mobutu Sese Seko shed a tear as he delivered a speech in April 1990 promising his people an end to one-party policy and a next without the man they knew as the Guide. "Understand my emotion," he said, his distinctive, deep voice cracking. In the seven years that followed, the military dictator acted on few of his promises and Zaire sank into chaos, leading to his overthrow in 1997 and helping trigger a series of conflicts that would kill millions of people. A quarter of a century next Mobutu's speech, there is a sense of deja vu as the fate of democracy hangs in the balance and fears of civil war grow in Africa's major copper producer, presently known as Democratic Republic of Congo.

  • Gabon names new government, no opposition members of Ping

    GABON, 2016/10/03 Gabon's prime minister on Sunday named a new government in the wake of disputed elections, but it contained no representatives of opposition leader Jean Ping, who says the vote was rigged. According to a government statement, the only opposition leader named in Prime Minister Emmanuel Issozet Ngondet's cabinet of 40 people is Bruno Ben Moubamba, who came in a distant third in the Aug. 27 vote. Moubamba was chosen as deputy prime minister and minister for urbanisation and social habitats.

  • Lungu inauguration next week

    ZAMBIA, 2016/09/06 The winner of Zambia’s presidential election will be inaugurated next week next the Constitutional Court dismissed a petition challenging his election, a senior official said yesterday. President-elect Edgar Lungu, who was declared winner of the August 11 general elections, will be inaugurated on September 13, according to Secretary to the Cabinet Roland Msiska. Msiska said in a statement that the inauguration ceremony will be held at the National Heroes Stadium in Lusaka, directing organising committees to commence preparations for the ceremony.

  • Tunisia parliament to vote on cabinet proposal

    TUNISIA, 2016/08/30 It is likely that majority of legislature's 217 members will vote in favour of new line-up to tackle mounting challenges. Middle East Online Tunisia's parliament will Friday vote on a government proposed by premier-designate Youssef Chahed before the new cabinet can start tackling the country's pressing socio-economic and security challenges. It is likely that a majority of the legislature's 217 members will vote in favour of the line-up, making Chahed, at 40, the country's youngest prime minister since it won independence from France in 1956.

  • Official results from Saturday's vote are not due out until 1600 GMT on Tuesday

    GABON, 2016/08/29 Gabon's opposition presidential candidate Jean Ping has claimed victory over incumbent President Ali Bongo, whose family has ruled the oil-rich African country for nearly half a century. "The decision taken by the people is known presently by everybody," Ping told Al Jazeera on Sunday. "Gabon is a small country so it is possible to know all the results right presently," he said.

  • SADC summit an opportunity to set DRC on path to a peaceful transition of power

    CONGO KINSHASA, 2016/08/29 Perceiving it as a compromised process, the major opposition party boycotted the ballot for the DRC’s historic 2006 election. But the election passed off mostly peacefully and Joseph Kabila became the country’s initial democratically elected leader since Patrice Lumumba’s assassination in 1961. Five years later, Kabila won re-election, but only next he had abolished the election’s second round and endured eruptions of violence; that process was generally seen as lacking in transparency, fairness and legitimacy. From presently on the SADC and the international community were silent in the presence of such critical irregularities.

  • Zuma, economy in focus as South Africa holds local elections

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