Ismail Omar Guelleh has won a fourth five-year term as president of Djibouti, a strategically important country in the Horn of Africa. Guelleh, who ran on the UMP party ticket, secured 87 percent of the votes cast in Friday’s elections, according to provisional results announced by the country’s interior minister. Guelleh, 68, also won the 2011 election with […]
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Thursday accused potential successors of wishing him dead and told supporters to unite against foreign enemies he said wanted to destroy the southern African nation.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has terminated the case against Kenya’s deputy president William Ruto and ended his trial, saying there is insufficient evidence he was involved in deadly violence that erupted after his country’s 2007 presidential elections. Tuesday’s announcement marks the second time the court has had to admit defeat in its attempts to prosecute alleged […]
Africa has a significant way to go if all countries are to reach the frontier of what the best performers are achieving in the area of regional integration.
Since the 1990s, perception-based measures have been influential in determining levels of corruption on the continent.
The United States announced earlier this month that it had used both drones and manned aircraft to kill at least 150 al-Shabab fighters in Somalia, a move the Pentagon says was necessary to stop an imminent attack on US and African Union forces in the country. Critics of the US drone programme however, argue such […]
Pan-Africanists whose stance champion the cause of the majority masses in all African countries have urged the African Union (AU) to take an irrevocable decision at the next summit to sever relation with the International Criminal Court (ICC).
President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta has urged the President of Ghana, President John Dramani Mahama to join forces with his country to fight the menace of terrorism in the African continent.
The 6th Anzisha Prize application phase is now open, and the search is on to find 12 of Africa’s youngest, most innovative social and business entrepreneurs under the age of 22.
Nissan South Africa has appointed Jim Dando as its director of sales and operations for the Sub Saharan Africa region, effective February 2016. Previously general manager of the Nissan Africa Regional Office, Dando will oversee Nissan’s network of national sales offices and dealers in the 47 markets in Sub Saharan Africa where the multi-brand company […]
