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The Guinean political leader, president of Our Common Values, Etienne Soropogui, was arrested on Saturday in Conakry by the national gendarmerie, his lawyer Me Salifou Béavogui confirms. as reported from…

AXADLE: Last week you insisted on the need to rethink the political systems in West Africa, taking into account the political, security, economic and social realities of the region and with a more ambitious goal than the organization of general elections. It is on this crucial topic, the proposal of alternative political models, that you conducted a conversation with a Beninese academic living in the United States, advocating what he…

After a authorized battle, the election of William Ruto was confirmed on Monday by the Supreme Court. Many challenges await the brand new Kenyan President William Ruto, particularly the unity difficulty.…

Dozens of civilians were killed in political clashes in South Sudan between February and May this year, according to a UN report on Tuesday, with women and children subjected to brutal attacks including gang rape.…

The entry bans target certain political figures, including many former deputies from the parliament dissolved by President Kais Saïed, or members of the Islamist Ennahda party. The latest is the case of the former minister of religious affairs between 2011 and 2014, Nourredine Khadmi, who had started a sit-in at Tunis-Carthage airport since August 18 to protest the decision. He finally ended his sit-in on August 23, citing pressure. Authorities are still quite evasive about the reasons for these travel bans, citing ongoing…

OP-ED: Why girls's participation within the political course of issues in Somalia Somalia has a wealthy historical past of courageous girls who defied all odds to contribute to the state-building course of of their homeland, however confronted a collection of limitations. Here I confer with the legacy of Hawo Tako, an anti-colonialist member of the Somali Youth…

The mediator appointed by ECOWAS in the Guinea crisis, Thomas Bony Yayi, has been back since Sunday 21 August in Conakry. As during his first stay last July, Benin's former president has yet to meet with political actors and civil society, causing concern among…

Tunisian Justice Minister Leïla Jaffel is accused by dismissed judges of having misled Tunisians to justify the non-implementation of the decisions of the Administrative Court on 22 August, which reinstates around fifty judges and suspends the decisions on their…

The former chief of staff of Félix Tshisekedi resumes formal political activities on Monday after two years of official absence from the political scene. He will today chair the meeting of the political office of his party, the Union for the Congolese Nation (UNC). After the June 28 tete-a-tete with President Félix Tshisekedi, the Monday August 22 meeting extended to members of the UNC and other senior staff of Vital Kamerhe will be the first formal political activity since his acquittal. two months ago by the Court of…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Kenyan opposition determine Raila Odinga stated Tuesday he'll problem the outcomes of the shut presidential election with "all constitutional and legal options" after Deputy President William Ruto was declared the winner, bringing contemporary uncertainty to a rustic that the place the vote was broadly thought-about to be essentially the most peaceable. Now East Africa's most secure democracy faces weeks of strife and the chance that the Supreme Court will order new elections. Religious and different…