Venezuela Protest Death Toll Rises In Renewed Violence
Two more people have been killed in Venezuela, in rival protests both for and against the government of President Nicolas ...
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Military Court Convicts Cameroon Journalist Ahmed Abba
A military court in Cameroon has convicted Ahmed Abba, a journalist for Radio France Internationale's (RFI) Hausa service, on charges ...
Gambia’s UDP Takes Control of Post-Jammeh Parliament
The Gambia’s United Democratic Party (UDP) emerged from decades in opposition in the country’s parliament to take its first absolute ...
Gambia’s Opposition UDP Wins Absolute Majority From Jammeh Party
The Gambia's longtime opposition won an absolute majority in parliamentary elections, easily defeating the party of ousted leader Yahya Jammeh, ...
The Vote Gambia’s President Barrow Must Win
Gambians will today vote for members of their one-chamber parliament. They are the first polls since Yahya Jammeh left power ...
Gambians Return To the Polls To Vote For MPs With Glass Marbles
The election will start at 8 am and end at 5pm local time before the marble ballots will be counted ...
The French President Who Wouldn’t Be ‘normal’
François Hollande's reign as president was marked by a secret love affair, deadly terror attacks, and an economic policy U-turn ...
Benin’s Parliament Rejects One-Term Limit On Presidency
Benin’s National Assembly has narrowly rejected a proposal by President Patrice Talon to amend the constitution. He was seeking to ...
Venezuela Moves To Defuse Supreme Court Powers Dispute
Venezuela's authorities have urged the Supreme Court to reconsider a ruling stripping congress of its powers, which critics have called ...
Venezuela’s Court Move Breaks Law, Maduro Ally Says
Venezuela's chief prosecutor, an ally of President Nicolas Maduro, has said the decision by the Supreme Court to take over ...
Malema Calls For Zuma’s Impeachment
South Africa’s opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema is to file an application at the Constitutional Court to ...
Kenya Court Orders Parliament To Pass Gender Quota
Kenya's High Court on Wednesday gave parliament 60 days to enact legislation that would make it obligatory to have more ...
Ghartey Lays 50-Page Bribery Report But Parliament To Debate It Tomorrow
Parliament on Wednesday received the report of a five-member committee that investigated a bribery allegations against some members of parliament’s ...
Ex-Congo VP To Be Sentenced For Bribing Witnesses
Former Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba and four associates will be sentenced on Wednesday for bribing witnesses during his war ...
We Failed To Learn From Biafran War — Ekweremadu
Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has traced the humanitarian crisis in the North-East to the nation’s failure ...
Niger’s Parliament To Probe Sale Scandal Involving Key Government Officials
Parliamentarians in Niger on Friday unanimously voted to put in place a parliamentary committee to probe a uranium sale scandal ...
The Genesis of Ghana’s Legislature
Folks our beloved country, Ghana is 60 years old, hurray!!! And it would be making time to join the pension ...
All Eyes On Blue House As S. Korea Awaits Park Move
All eyes were on Seoul's presidential Blue House Saturday as South Koreans awaited ex-president Park Geun-Hye's reaction to her impeachment ...
Gambia Coalition Near Collapse Over Legislative Election
Gambian coalition parties that united last year to deliver the first new president in 22 years are unlikely to run ...
Corrupt Nigerians Hiding Stolen Money In Caskets, Remote Villages
The Senate, yesterday, alerted the nation to the fact that corrupt politicians now hide stolen money in caskets and uncompleted ...