December 29, 2007
Kenya: Update on Disputed Election Results
The Electoral Commission of Kenya published provisional results at 6.30pm Kenyan time confirming the numbers it had published earlier, saying that challenger Raila Odinga had won… Read more »
Kenya: Odinga Leads in Election - Or Does He?
The Kenyan government published figures on the web Saturday showing that President Mwai Kibaki had taken a narrow lead in the Kenyan presidential elections. Read more »
December 28, 2007
Kenya: Early Results Give Raila Odinga Lead
Kenyan newspapers and television stations are reporting that opposition candidate Raila Odinga has opened up a significant lead over President Mwai Kibaki. Read more »
Kenya: How Votes Are Counted
Kenyan blogger Daudi Were gives a step-by-step account of how the votes have been counted after Thursday's election in Kenya. Read more »
December 27, 2007
Kenya: How the World is Reporting Elections
News agencies have reported that Kenyans lined up for miles to participate in this year's election, and the BBC has estimated turnout to be about 70 percent, which is far higher… Read more »
Kenya: 24 Hour News Radio - Election 2007
Kenyan blogger Daudi Were shares insights on the 2007 national elections from Nairobi. Read more »
Kenya: Kibera Displays Her Maturity - Election 2007
Kenyan blogger Daudi Were shares insights on the 2007 national elections from Nairobi. Read more »
Kenya: Voting Experience - Election 2007
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
Kenyan blogger Daudi Were shares insights on the 2007 national elections from Nairobi. Read more »
Kenya: Kibaki Leads in Exit Poll
The Institution for Education for Democracy (IED), a non-governmental organization in Kenya, reports that according to its exit poll, President Mwai Kibaki won 47.4 percent of the… Read more »
Kenya: Foreign Press Out in Force at Polls
Journalists working for news organizations based outside Africa were up early at Kenya's polling stations on Thursday. allAfrica editor Brian Kennedy reviews their coverage on the… Read more »
December 24, 2007
Kenya: Western Media Focus on 'Media-Savvy' Election
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 14, 2007
Africa: Leaders Divided on Rights, Says Amnesty Chief
A group of international figures gathered in Cape Town this week to launch a new global campaign for human rights. One of them was Irene Khan, who as secretary-general of Amnesty… Read more »
December 11, 2007
Africa: 'Elders' Condemn Human Rights Abuses
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has joined leading international figures in appealing to the global community to fight human rights abuses in countries including Sudan, Zimbabwe and Chad. Read more »
December 05, 2007
Africa: UN Chief Calls for Arrests of War Crimes Suspects
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on the international community to do more to help arrest leaders indicted on war crimes charges. Six Sudanese and Ugandan… Read more »
Sudan: Darfur Peace Efforts Must Embrace New Reality
Darfur has dropped out of Western headlines again for the moment, eclipsed by events in Pakistan, the Middle East and Iraq. But while the erratic attention of the international… Read more »
December 03, 2007
Africa: U.S. Secretary of State Heading to Ethiopia
United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will attend a meeting of leaders from the Great Lakes Region on Wednesday, December 5 in Addis Abba, Ethiopia, the State… Read more »
November 30, 2007
Uganda: Judicial System Fails Women, Says Amnesty
Human rights group Amnesty International today accused the Ugandan judicial system of failing to act against the widespread rape and sexual abuse of women in the north of the… Read more »
November 28, 2007
Sudan: Rights Group Criticizes Firms Over Darfur
An anti-genocide group has strongly criticized major international companies sponsoring the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China for their silence on the ongoing crisis in the… Read more »
November 26, 2007
Sudan: Lobby Warns of New Darfur Insurgency
An international lobby group today called for the Darfur peace talks to be widened to include groups such as women and Arab tribal groups, in order to avoid more fragmentation… Read more »
November 20, 2007
South Africa: Govt Presses Major Powers on Darfur Force
South Africa has urged Russia, China, the United States and European Union countries to provide the heavy military equipment necessary to deploy Darfur's new hybrid… Read more »
November 08, 2007
Sudan: Meet Our Demands, Says Southern President
President Salva Kiir Mayardit of the Government of Southern Sudan said in Washington, DC on Wednesday that the south’s boycott of the country’s Government of National… Read more »
November 07, 2007
Sudan: South Africa to Boost Darfur Peacekeepers
South Africa will consider contributing helicopters and ground transport to the new hybrid African Union-United Nations peacekeeping force for Darfur, President Thabo Mbeki said… Read more »
November 06, 2007
Sudan: Darfur Peacekeeper Warns of High Expectations
When the new African Union-United Nations hybrid force for Darfur (Unamid) deploys at the end of the year, its commander expects to have only half the 20,000 troops planned for.… Read more »
November 05, 2007
Ethiopia: Analysts Warn of New War With Eritrea
There is a growing danger of renewed war between Ethiopia and Eritrea in the coming weeks, and both the United Nations and the United States must act quickly to head it off, the… Read more »