Senegal: President Sall Coalition Wins Majority in Parliamentary Elections

A coalition led by Senegalese President Macky Sall has won a huge majority in the legislative elections. Read more »

Liberia: Bold Plans for Hard Problems in Second Term - Johnson Sirleaf

In the early months of her second five-year term, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says the post-conflict nation has made substantial progress but still faces multiple,… Read more »

Egypt: Election Commission Delays Results of Run-Off Vote

Egypt's election commission is postponing the release of official results that were due today in a presidential election claimed by both candidates, as tension rose over who will… Read more »

Rwanda: U.S. Accused of Blocking UN Report on 'Rwanda Fueling Congo Violence'

The United States has been accused of blocking a UN report which examines claims that Rwanda is fuelling a violent rebellion in neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo. (See… Read more »

Ethiopia: Journalists Live in Fear of 'Terror' Law

Nowhere across Africa is the message that its people want a way out of what I call "the four Ds" - death, disease, disaster and despair - more resounding than among the continent's… Read more »

Africa: Shaky Infrastructure Falls Under Washington Spotlight

Africa needs to be spending U.S.$93 billion each year on infrastructure, according to the African Development Bank (AfDB), more than double the current outlays. The deficit is… Read more »

Liberia: Sirleaf Needs to Use Powers to the Fullest

Liberia has come a long way from the bloody civil wars that raged from 1989 until former president Charles Taylor left office in 2003. Read more »

Malawi: Mutharika Family Slams Govt Probe Into Former President's Death

Malawian president, Joyce Banda, has stated that the country will investigate the death of its former president, Bingu wa Mutharika, despite his family's opposition, AFP reports. Read more »

Mali: Making Mothers Matter

It's a typical weekday morning at the Luxembourg Mother-Child hospital in the capital, Bamako. Around 20 patients are there for appointments - shy teenagers sit alongside more… Read more »

Togo: Protests Continue for Third Day in Lomé

Protests are continuing for a third day in Lomé after two days of clashes between security forces and demonstrators calling for reforms ahead of upcoming elections. Read more »

Africa: Low-Cost Air Travel Comes to Africa

African travellers, plagued by the high fares charged by airlines targeting the business market, are a step closer to being able to fly across the continent on a no-frills budget… Read more »

Africa: African Govts Urged to Support Unhindered Reporting on Global Warming

Ahead of the Rio+20 conference in Brazil next week, African journalists have called on governments to allow them to report independently on issues related to global warming. Read more »

Africa: Continent Fails Her Newborn Children

Despite a significant reduction in child deaths around the globe, a new report released today shows that the health of newborn babies has been largely overlooked. Read more »

Malawi: Kangaroo Care Helps Malawi Leap Forward

Malawi, one of Africa's poorest nations, has made significant progress in improving the survival of newborns and is on track to meet the United Nations Millennium Development Goal… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: A City's Modern March of Hope

It begins at twilight, just as the roosters begin to crow, before the sky reclaims the overnight rain. At first there are only a few hundred - the earliest risers, the ones hoping… Read more »

Africa: Malawi Says No to Hosting AU Summit

The Vice President, Khumbo Kachali, has announced that Malawi will not be hosting the African Union summit, Face of Malawi has reported. Read more »

Lesotho: Death Threats As Opposition Prepares for Power

Lesotho's principal opposition leader appears on track to form a coalition government, setting the seal on the ousting of Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili after 14 years in power. Read more »

Equatorial Guinea: Obiang Seeks to Protect Son From Law

If only African leaders put as much time, resources, and creativity into enforcing the law as they do trying to evade it. While politicians viewing themselves as above the law is… Read more »

Kenya: Vaccine Could Reduce Cervical Cancer Deaths

At age 22, all Martha Achieng' Ooko really craved was freedom and a place to call her own. She was working hard as a beautician, giving manicures and pedicures in the western… Read more »

Africa: U.S. Congressional Inaction Threatens Jobs, Consumers

The United States may jeopardize its relationship with 40 countries in sub-Saharan Africa if Congress does not act urgently to extend a provision of a trade law which allows… Read more »

Nigeria: 'How to Be a Nigerian'

In Honour of Joseph Nanven Garba, 1943-2002 Read more »

Kenya: Lack of Screening, Vaccines for Cervical Cancer Costs Lives

At age 22, all Martha Achieng' Ooko really craved was freedom and a place to call her own. She was working hard as a beautician, giving manicures and pedicures in the western… Read more »

Sierra Leone: Taylor to Spend Rest of His Life in Prison

The Special Court for Sierra Leone has sentenced former Liberian president Charles Taylor to 50 years' imprisonment for aiding and abetting war crimes in Sierra Leone. Read more »

Lesotho: PM Resigns in Wake of Election

Lesotho's Prime Minister since 1998, Pakalitha Mosisili, has resigned. Read more »

Africa: Presidents Commit to Nurturing Africa's 'Natural Capital'

Until Africa's forests are valued for the oxygen they produce for the world's ecosystems, they will be worth more when they are dead than alive, said Liberian president Ellen… Read more »