December 27, 2007
Kenya: Voting Experience - Election 2007 [blog]
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Kenyan blogger Daudi Were shares insights on the 2007 national elections from Nairobi. In this entry, he describes the scene at polling stations in the city. Read more »
Kenya: The Country Decides - Election 2007 [blog]
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Kenyan blogger Daudi Were shares insights on the 2007 national elections from Nairobi. Read more »
December 24, 2007
Kenya: Western Media Focus on 'Media-Savvy' Election [blog]
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allAfrica editor Brian Kennedy picks out some of the best American and British reporting on this week’s elections. (Free registration may be required to read original… Read more »
December 20, 2007
South Africa: Which ANC Do People Vote For? [blog]
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Zubeida Jaffer writes of her pride in being South African at seeing how the African National Congress handled its leadership transition. But, she adds, the splitting of the… Read more »
December 19, 2007
South Africa: Mbeki's Exit Points Way For Jacob Zuma [blog]
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Cyril Madlala , editor of KwaZulu-Natal's UmAfrika newspaper, hopes that the new ANC president with a warm heart and time to listen has learned lessons from his predecessor's… Read more »
South Africa: Pushed Around by the ANC [blog]
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Pushed around, literally, by security guards at the national conference of the African National Congress, Charlayne Hunter-Gault reflects on whether the ANC understands the needs… Read more »
Mali: A Navy Admiral Fights Malaria [blog]
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In the latest entry in his blog about a massive health drive, Steven Phillips tells of us about the unlikely presence of a navy admiral in landlocked Mali. Read more »
December 18, 2007
South Africa: Ebullient Bedlam Greets Zuma Victory [blog]
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Charlayne Hunter-Gault describes the scene for allAfrica readers from the floor of the ANC's national conference. To comment, click on the box at top right [free sign-up]. Read more »
South Africa: Zuma 6 - Mbeki 0 As ANC Votes
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Jacob Zuma, the deputy leader of the ruling African National Congress (ANC), inflicted a severe defeat on South Africa's national leader, President Thabo Mbeki, at the ruling… Read more »
South Africa: Revealed - Why Mbeki Camp Believes It Can Win ANC Race [blog]
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Zubeida Jaffer reveals the thinking behind the belief of President Thabo Mbeki's supporters that they can still prevail in the race for the party presidency now under way in South… Read more »
South Africa: ANC Business Leader Fears 'Calamity' [blog]
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Today's South African websites aren't reporting much that isn't reported in one way or another by allAfrica's news partners or bloggers - except perhaps for the Mail &… Read more »
Mali: U.S. Sports Stars Suit Up Against Malaria [blog]
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Steven Phillips tells of the impact that American sports stars have on the campaign to make take life-saving health interventions to the children of Mali. Read more »
South Africa: Zuma Wins Presidency of Ruling ANC
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Jacob Zuma, the deputy leader of the African National Congress, inflicted a severe defeat on South Africa's national leader, President Thabo Mbeki, at the ruling party's national… Read more »
December 17, 2007
West Africa: Central Bank in Stalemate as Politics, Tradition Clash
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A rift between heads of state of the eight-nation West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) has left the bloc's central bank, BCEAO, with an interim governor for over two… Read more »
Mali: Mothers Form Long Lines For Children's Health [blog]
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The latest instalment in the reflections of Dr. Steven Phillips, ExxonMobil's Medical Director for Global Issues and Projects, on the huge campaign to reach millions of children… Read more »
South Africa: ANC Engages in Damage Control [blog]
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Charlayne Hunter-Gault reports on how the ANC embarked on damage control after the exuberant behavior of presidential challenger Jacob Zuma's supporters at the ANC conference on… Read more »
South Africa: Mbeki is All Head, Zuma Heart [blog]
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Standing out from today's local coverage of what most journalists saw as the humiliation of South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki at the ANC's conference on Sunday, was a piece in… Read more »
South Africa: Two ANCs Emerge Amid Unprecedented Tensions [blog]
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Charlayne Hunter-Gault, who reports on the ANC conference principally for National Public Radio in the United States, continues her personal reflections on the process. Read more »
December 16, 2007
South Africa: Mbeki Defends Record, Condemns 'Lies,' Confronts Divisions [document]
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The president of South Africa's ruling African National Congress, Thabo Mbeki, defended the party's record under his leadership, condemned some practices in the party and… Read more »
South Africa: ANC Displays Growing Pains of Democracy [blog]
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Award-winning South African journalist Zubeida Jaffer, who has chronicled South Africa's struggle for liberation from the inside, sums up the first day of the ANC's five-yearly… Read more »
South Africa: Key ANC Conference Sees Partisan Responses [blog]
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Charlayne Hunter-Gault continues her reflection from the floor of the ANC conference in Polokwane, in South Africa's northern Limpopo province. Read more »
South Africa: ANC Conference Starts on Raucous Note [blog]
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The leading American public broadcast journalist, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, blogs for allAfrica live from the floor – literally – of the ANC conference during President… Read more »
South Africa: Mbeki Admits Mistakes, Plans Fightback [blog]
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South Africans woke on Sunday morning to read what appeared to be President Thabo Mbeki's strategy for a fightback to try, against the odds, to secure his re-election as leader of… Read more »
December 15, 2007
South Africa: Tension Underlies Backslapping at ANC Meeting [blog]
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One of America's most renowned public broadcast journalists, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, is blogging for allAfrica from the University of Limpopo which, situated near the city of… Read more »
South Africa: Presidential Hopefuls Speak for Themselves [blog]
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IF YOU LISTEN to the detractors of the two principal protagonists in this week's African National Congress leadership election, you will hear that the choice is between a ruthless,… Read more »
