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HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has accused court judges of being reckless in allowing anti-government demonstrations that later turned violent, state media reported Read more
By Michelle Nichols JUBA (Reuters) – Displaced civilians and religious leaders in war-torn South Sudan appealed to the U.N. Security Council on Saturday to urgently Read more
HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe arrived at the capital’s main airport from abroad on Saturday, according to a Reuters witness, following intense rumours Read more
By Gerauds Wilfried Obangome LIBREVILLE (Reuters) – Three people were killed and up to 1,100 were arrested in Gabon on Thursday, the government said, in Read more
By Gerauds Wilfried Obangome LIBREVILLE (Reuters) – Demonstrators in Gabon clashed with police and set part of the parliament building on fire on Wednesday amid Read more
LIBREVILLE (Reuters) – A Gabon electoral commission count on Wednesday put Gabon president Ali Bongo as winner with 49.85 percent of the vote compared with Read more
By Gerauds Wilfried Obangome LIBREVILLE (Reuters) – Gabon opposition candidate Jean Ping called on President Ali Bongo on Monday to “acknowledge his defeat” in Saturday’s Read more
HARARE/JOHANNESBURG — The grievances of the opposition protesters who marched in Zimbabwe’s capital Friday can be summed up in one word: In the Shona language, zvakwana, Read more
By MacDonald Dzirutwe HARARE (Reuters) – President Robert Mugabe warned protesters on Friday there would be no “Arab Spring” in Zimbabwe after anti-government demonstrations descended Read more
By MacDonald Dzirutwe HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwean police on Friday fired tear gas at opposition leaders and hundreds of demonstrators as a protest against President Read more
PRETORIA (Reuters) – South African President Jacob Zuma said on Thursday he backed Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan but was powerless to stop a police investigation Read more
NAIROBI — Police in Burundi arrested eight people Saturday for allegedly circulating defamatory anti-government statements on social media. The Burundi case is not unique. The Read more
By Gift Sukhala HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwean police used teargas, water cannon and batons on Wednesday to disperse opposition youths who demonstrated in the capital Read more
South Africa’s governing ANC party has lost control of the country’s largest city and economic centre, Johannesburg. The city council elected as mayor Herman Mashaba Read more
By Chris Mfula and Stella Mapenzauswa LUSAKA (Reuters) – President Edgar Lungu took the lead over his main rival on Saturday in early counting from Read more
The head of Zambia’s electoral commission has been responding to reports of violence in the run up to Thursday’s presidential and parliamentary elections. We posted earlier Read more
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – More than 90 people were shot dead by security forces in protests across Ethiopia’s Oromiya and Amhara regions at the weekend, Read more
“The fall in support has been dramatic, in levels never seen before,” political analyst told reporters. Defeat in Port Elizabeth was a humiliating blow for Read more
Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday touched down in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, where he will lead a team of observers from the African Read more
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) failed to take control of President Jacob Zuma’s hometown of Nkandla, local election results showed Read more
By Nqobile Dludla and Mfuneko Toyana JOHANNESBURG/PRETORIA (Reuters) – South Africans voted in local elections on Wednesday that could see the ruling African National Congress Read more
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