Mali: 'ATT' Still Ahead, 'IBK' Steps Up Fraud Allegations

Retired military general Amadou Toumani Toure, maintained his lead, late Wednesday, after the release of the latest provisional results from the presidential election. Read more »

Liberia: Detained Lawyer Released in Monrovia

Detained Liberian lawyer Tiawan Gongloe, who was last week beaten in detention and had to be hospitalised, has been released into the custody of one of Liberia's prominent… Read more »

Mali: Retired General Takes Early Lead in Presidential Election

Partial and provisional results from Mali's presidential election, after a quarter of the constituencies have been counted, put a retired military general in the lead, as a slow… Read more »

Mali: Political Parties Denounce Vote Counting Flaws

The already slow counting of votes after Sunday's first round presidential election in Mali was hit by a further obstacle late Tuesday, when the Rally for Mali party (RPM), which… Read more »

Liberia: President Taylor Says Investigation of Gongloe Will Continue

Liberia's President Charles Taylor has referred to the case of human rights lawyer Tiawan Gongloe who was beaten and injured while in detention, and warned that under the state of… Read more »

Mali: No Clear Leader as Election Results Trickle In

The initial counting of votes from the first round of Mali's presidential election started at dusk on Sunday, bathed in flickering candlelight, assisted by the glow of paraffin… Read more »

Liberia: Security Intensified at Lawyer’s Bedside

Liberian officials on Sunday intensified security at the hospital where detained human rights lawyer, Mr. Taiwan Saye Gongloe, is being treated for injuries sustained during a… Read more »

Mali: Vote Count Begins After Calm Day at the Polls

Vote counting after Sunday’s presidential election in Mali began almost as soon as polling stations closed their doors at 18h00 local (and GMT) in the capital, Bamako. Read more »

Mali: Outgoing President Hails Democratic Vote

As Malians turned out to vote for a new president in a relaxed Sunday atmosphere, their outgoing leader, Alpha Oumar Konare, expressed his "great satisfaction" with the democratic… Read more »

Mali: All Set for Presidential Vote on Sunday

As they prepare to go to the polls on Sunday, the people of Mali have to choose a new president who could be a former military head of state, a wealthy former government minister,… Read more »

Mali: 'You Can’t Campaign by Camel Any More' Says Candidate

Soumaila Cisse is one of 24 candidates¨hoping to become the next president of Mali in the elections on Sunday. The 53 year-old computer science engineer-turned politician and… Read more »

Mali: Presidential Election Campaign Ends in Festive Carnival Atmosphere

Last minute campaigning, before Sunday’s presidential election in Mali, took on a distinctly carnival atmosphere on Friday. Tens of thousands of supporters, of some of the 24… Read more »

Liberia: Monrovia Bans Gatherings on Eve of Opposition Leader’s Return

A ban on all public gatherings issued by Liberia’s minister of justice late Friday has put into question a scheduled return this weekend by opposition leader Ellen Johnson Sirleaf… Read more »

Liberia: Tortured Human Rights Lawyer Under Police Guard in Hospital

Liberian human rights lawyer Tiawan Saye Gongloe, who was beaten this week in detention by state security officers in Monrovia, by his own account, has told allAfrica.com that his… Read more »

Mali: Last Day of Campaigning Before Sunday's Presidential Poll

Twenty-four candidates are set to contest the presidential election in Mali on Sunday, 28 April. Their campaign posters, with enticing slogans and captions, are plastered all over… Read more »

Africa: African solutions to African problems - Senegal’s Wade pulls off Diplomatic Coup

The Senegalese president, Abdoulaye Wade, shot a diplomatic hole-in-one on Thursday, with the agreement between the two Malagasy leaders who he had invited to Dakar to make peace. Read more »

Central Africa: Chad-Cameroon Pipeline Considered By Congressional Subcommittee

The House Subcommittee on Africa Thursday pondered the potential benefits and pitfalls of the Chad-Cameroon Oil Development Project. The project will develop several oil fields in… Read more »

Madagascar: Rival Presidents Strike Peace Deal in Senegal

The two rival presidents of Madagascar have signed a landmark power-sharing peace deal, late Thursday morning, in Senegal. Read more »

Madagascar: Rival Presidents Embrace in Senegal, Disputed Election Results Annulled

The two rival presidents of Madagascar met face to face on Wednesday, in an unprecedented peace gesture organised by the Senegalese president, Abdoulaye Wade, under the auspices of… Read more »

Madagascar: African Leaders Open Mediation Efforts, Meet Rival Presidents

The rival presidents of Madagascar, Didier Ratsiraka, and Marc Ravalomanana held separate late-night talks, Tuesday, in Senegal, with President Abdoulaye Wade and other African… Read more »

Madagascar: Presidential Rivals Set to Meet in Senegal

The self-proclaimed president of Madagascar, Marc Ravalomanana, arrived in Senegal on Tuesday, ahead of his rival, the sitting president, Didier Ratsiraka, who was expected in the… Read more »

Africa: Senegalese President Confident of Nepad's Success Ahead of June G8 Summit

Picture President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal, 74, nonchalantly wandering into the efficiently-run Cybercentre, at the plush hotel and conference centre in the capital, Dakar, where… Read more »

Africa: Absence of key African leaders at Nepad summit no big deal, says Senegal

Unofficial rumblings of discontent among senior government officials in Senegal, and outright irritation, annoyance and even anger by some Senegalese people, have greeted the… Read more »

Nigeria: World Women Parliamentarians Call for Amnesty for Safiya Husseini

The Nigerian Justice Minister, Kanu Agabi, has addressed a letter to the governors of Nigeria's Muslim states warning them not to allow "zeal for justice and transparency to… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Mbeki and Obasanjo on a Peace Mission, Will it Work?

President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, and Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo were in Zimbabwe, Monday, to try to strike a deal between the newly-sworn in veteran leader, Robert Mugabe,… Read more »