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A group of 50 European Union short term observers, coming from 25 EU member states and Norway, is being deployed throughout the country today to observe the 17 November Presidential, Parliamentary...
Following the first phase of electioneering for the forthcoming Sierra Leone elections, the light policing at campaign rallies has been described as "a good sign for a peaceful election" by the...
Shifts in the African National Congress’ (or ANC’s) membership within South Africa's provinces have given President Jacob Zuma a fighting chance of holding on to the party leadership and the...
Africa is one of the geographical spaces that exemplify Samuel Huntington's ‘third wave of democratisation' in the late Twentieth Century. In the 1990s, owing to the loss of legitimacy of...
The end of the Cold War led to or coincided with the establishment or re-introduction of multiparty political systems across Africa. In the early 1990s, almost all the African countries adopted new...
Judges delayed Charles Taylor's trial on charges of directing atrocities in Sierra Leone on Monday after the former Liberian President failed to show up in court, saying he lacked funds for a...
Speech by Minister of Education, N Pandor, at the 15th Commonwealth
Council for Education Ministers (CCEM) Mid-term Review Meeting for
the Africa Region, Cyprus, Malta, and the United Kingdom, in...
War-torn Sierra Leone is looking to local elections on Saturday as
a major leap forward in its rehabilitation after a decade of rebel
conflict that decimated the tiny west African state.
The European Union will contribute 17.8 million euros to a road
project linking Sierra Leone with its northern neighbor Guinea,
state radio reported Thursday.
Of the 13 people indicted by the UN-backed war crimes court for the
west African state of Sierra Leone, only Sam Hinga Norman, a former
government minister, is seen to have been wrongly accused of...
Liberian rebels Wednesday claimed to have taken more key towns and
said they will intensify military pressure on President Charles
Taylor to quit the seaside capital of Monrovia.