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Kampala, Uganda:
On 15 June, Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, joined the ‘10,000 Club’, a small coterie of world leaders who have held power for over 10,000 days – more than 27 years. In Africa, only Teodoro Obiang of Equatorial Guinea, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, and Jose Eduardo Dos Santos of Angola have remained in office longer.Museveni is not in good company: each controls abusive securit
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On 15 June, the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) held an extraordinary summit on Zimbabwe in Mozambique’s capital of Maputo. The main issue discussed was the Zimbabwean elections, currently scheduled for the 31 July. The 31 July date was set by President Robert Mugabe under the pretext of complying with the Constitutional Court’s ruling that elections must be within four weeks of the
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Abuja, Nigeria:
When Mathius Karoni shops for bread at his local Park 'n' Shop supermarket, he's not thinking about the contribution he's making to Nigeria's national budget or to the farmers struggling to scratch a living from small plots around the country. Nor is he connecting his purchases to reducing Nigeria's death rate for children under five – one of the highest in the world.The human re
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Abuja, Nigeria:
When Mathius Karoni shops for bread at his local Park 'n' Shop supermarket, he's not thinking about the contribution he's making to Nigeria's national budget or to the farmers struggling to scratch a living from small plots around the country. Nor is he connecting his purchases to reducing Nigeria's death rate for children under five – one of the highest in the world.The human re
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Lusaka, Zambia:
2011 will be remembered in Zambia as the year that the Patriotic Front (PF) and the slogan Don't Kubeba won out. In September's elections, the PF's Michael Sata defeated incumbent president Rupiah Banda's Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD) at the polls, ending their 20-year dominance.While Banda's better-funded campaign followed a well-troden path across the continent – West
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Chad was a big winner from this year's French-led intervention in Mali. The swift victory over militant Islamist groups demonstrated the strength of the Chadian military, pushing the country up world power indexes. And with Western powers looking for allies in the Sahel, Chad has emerged as an unlikely but possibly indispensable ally.But a failed coup attempt at the start of May shows that Wester
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On Friday 24 May, governors from 35 of Nigeria’s 36 states met in Abuja to elect the new chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF). Incumbent chairman and governor of oil-rich Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi, defeated the president’s preferred candidate, Jonah Jang, by 19 votes to 16.The result has left the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in disarray: Amaechi has subsequently been suspen
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Posted by
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Sixty years ago, footballer Stanley Matthews donned the English kit and delivered a performance of breathtaking audacity - one that forged a lasting relationship: a relationship between the Wizard and Africa.The dream team
The match that brought Matthews and Africa together was held at Wembley, the famous ground in north London, on 21 October 1953. A young South African goalkeeper, Lubbe Snoyman,
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