Four Chadian rebel movements announced to have formed a new coalition, the National Alliance for the Democratic Change (ANCD) which, aims at the removal of the president Idriss Deby Itno “by all means”.

Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania agreed on the sharing of the Nile waters, in spite of the boycott of Egypt and Sudan, and signed an agreement – in negotiation for ten years between the neighbouring countries of...

The International Contact Group (ICG) called on political leaders and activists to prevent any ethnic or racial abuse on the transition period leading to the presidential of June 27. While the electoral campaign is launched on May...

Nigeria’s new president has chosen his candidate for vice president from the country’s largely Muslim north. He tapped Kaduna State governor Namadi Sambo for the job after meeting Wednesday with Nigeria’s governors.

A new rebellion gestation in North Kivu reinforces another rumor that the country would experience a new turmoil and a new political tsunami in the aftermath of the festivities of June 30.

The most powerful faction of Somalia’s Hizbul Islam insurgents has officially cut ties with the group. It is said the split occurred when senior members of the “Ras Kamboni” faction decided to formally withdraw from Hizbul Islam.

Recently, some news has spread like wildfire and it greatly affects the campaign of all concerned political parties, engaged in the Guinean presidential race. It is learned that the Foreign Minister of France, Bernard Kouchner had assured...

The Guinean presidential elections on the 27th of June are exciting. Personalities of the Guinean political landscape are joining the nominee list that would compete for the presidential Chair, actually occupied by the acting President, Sékouba Konaté.

Rare occurrence in the archipelago, the army reacts after the Constitutional Court decision, and in anticipation of the end of the President’s, Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, mandate term on May 26. The military are challenging the political class,...

The ten Somali pirates captured by the Russian navy last week may have perished after their release. Marines seized them during an operation to free a hijacked Russian oil tanker far from shore.