Zimbabwe: Vote Count Begins Amid Mixed Verdicts on Poll

Vote-counting got off to an early start in Zimbabwe, Tuesday, after the High Court rejected an opposition request to prolong polling in the contested presidential election into a… Read more »

Madagascar: Anxiety Grows over Outcome of Madagascar Crisis

Madagascar's opposition took control of the defense ministry over the weekend, strengthening its grip on power in a dispute over the outcome of presidential elections two months… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Government Orders Polls Closed after Chaotic Extra Day of Voting

Voting was declared closed Monday night in Zimbabwe's controversial presidential election, despite last minute opposition attempts to have polling extended to an unprecedented… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Opposition Demands Second Voting Extension, US Diplomats Arrested

The opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has called for a second extension of Zimbabwe's controversial election, after voting on Monday - the first extension ordered by… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Confusion Reigns on Unscheduled Third Day of Voting

Chaos and confusion reigned Monday in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, on the third, unscheduled day of voting in the presidential election, ordered by the High Court late Sunday. … Read more »

Zimbabwe: Voting Enters Third Day, As MDC Cites Fraud

The battle continued Monday at polling stations in Zimbabwe, between President Robert Mugabe's government and Morgan Tsvangirai's opposition, to try to win as many of the last… Read more »

Madagascar: Presidential Claimant Gains Ground in Madagascar as Threats Loom

The continuing constitutional crisis in Madagascar poses a difficult question for the international community. Is the Indian Ocean island nation in the process of a "popular power"… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Government Will Partially Comply With Court Order

The Zimbabwe government has agreed partially to comply with a High Court ruling extending the vote in the presidential election for a third day on Monday. The announcement came in… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Opposition Granted Voting Extension by High Court

The High Court in Zimbabwe ordered an extension of the presidential election late Sunday, ruling in favour of the opposition which had petitioned against long delays at polling… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Voting Delays Continue, Ministers Says Extension not Justified

Long queues continued on Sunday in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, for the second and final official day of voting in the country's presidential election. Most polling stations… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Growing Pressure on Government to Extend Voting Beyond Sunday

There is growing domestic and international pressure on the authorities in Zimbabwe to extend voting in the presidential election beyond Sunday night, the scheduled end of the… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Police Clash With Impatient Voters, MDC Cries Foul

The first day of polling in Zimbabwe's fiercely fought presidential election was marked by long delays and increasingly impatient queues of people waiting to vote. Later in the… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Polls Open with Long Lines and Some Confusion

Polling in Zimbabwe got off to a brisk, but confused, start on Saturday as long lines of voters queued to cast their ballot in a landmark presidential election, following a… Read more »

Zimbabwe: The Policies That Divide Mugabe and Tsvangirai

Almost overlooked, amid the deafening exchange of charge and counter-charge in Zimbabwe's election campaign, are the policy and program plans that distinguish Robert Mugabe's… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Voters Prepare for Landmark Presidential Poll

Five and a half million people in Zimbabwe are eligible to vote in the presidential election on Saturday and Sunday, 9-10 March, at the end of an acrimonious and often violent… Read more »

West Africa: Ecowas Totally Opposed to Armed Insurrection, Says New Chief

Mohamed Ibn Chambas is the newly-appointed executive secretary of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, which has 15 member countries and is headquartered in… Read more »

Africa: Amoako Cautiously Optimistic About African Union and Regional Integration

The third African Development Forum closes its doors Friday in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, after a week of debate on regional integration in Africa, organised by the United… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Lower the Political Temperature, Nigerian Leader Urged Mugabe

"Turn down the temperature," Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was advised by President Olusegun Obasanjo during a visit to Harare in late January. "It was not a directive,"… Read more »

Mozambique: Interview with President Chissano of Mozambique - Part 2

President Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique was in Washington, at the end of February for a mini-summit of southern African leaders and President George W. Bush, and gave… Read more »

Mozambique: Interview with President Chissano of Mozambique - Part 1

President Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique was in Washington, at the end of February, for a mini-summit of southern African leaders with President George W. Bush and granted an… Read more »

Madagascar: OAU 'Contact Group' Returns to Broker Talks

An Organization of African Unity (OAU) "contact group" arrived in Madagascar, Wednesday, to begin talks aimed at re-uniting the now-split island state. The team is led by former… Read more »

Madagascar: Ravalomanana Minister Spells Out Strategy, Pays Civil Servants

Madagascar now has two governments. One is led by the incumbent, President Didier Ratsiraka, effectively banished from the capital city, Antananarivo, and operating out of a… Read more »

Egypt: "Use Our Eyes" to Build Understanding, Mubarak Tells Washington

Despite spiraling violence in the Middle East and the ongoing war against terrorism, Egyptian President Mohammad Husni Mubarak, in a major address delivered here today, proclaimed… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Mugabe Overrules Supreme Court on Electoral Law

Election laws thrown out a week ago by Zimbabwe's Supreme Court have been reinstated by President Robert Mugabe. In the official Government Gazette,Tuesday, Mugabe said the laws… Read more »

Africa: 'Why Do Our Leaders Hate Us So Much?'

Chidi Anselm Odinkalu is the senior legal officer for Interights, the International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights, based in London. He is attending the third… Read more »