Kenya: The Country Decides - Election 2007

Kenyan blogger Daudi Were shares insights on the 2007 national elections from Nairobi. Read more »

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 »

South Africa: Which ANC Do People Vote For?

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 »

South Africa: Mbeki's Exit Points Way For Jacob Zuma

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

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

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 »

South Africa: Ebullient Bedlam Greets Zuma Victory

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

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

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'

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

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

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 »

West Africa: Central Bank in Stalemate as Politics, Tradition Clash

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

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

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

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

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 »

South Africa: Mbeki Defends Record, Condemns 'Lies,' Confronts Divisions

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

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

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

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

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 »

South Africa: Tension Underlies Backslapping at ANC Meeting

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

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 »

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 »