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Cameroon's ruling party won 56 of the 70 seats contested in the country's first senate elections held on April 14, according to results issued on Monday by the Supreme Court. President Paul Biya...
In the early hours of 22 March 2012, news of a military coup d’état in Mali spread across the world. Claiming a lack of adequate means and resources to fight Tuareg insurgents in the north of...
Paul Biya, Cameroon’s president since 1982, is one of the six African leaders who has successfully clung to power for more than a quarter-century. Paradoxically, his country was the 15th African...
Cameroon’s latest Presidential election has seen long-serving incumbent Paul Biya, of the Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement, or RDPC retaining office with a resounding 77.99% of the vote....
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has responded to the loss of economic momentum in South Africa by allowing for a moderate rise in government expenditure. This will result in the deficit rising to...
South Africa's ANC has failed the people and its policy shortcomings have set the stage for an uprising similar to the ones that toppled longstanding governments in North Africa, an influential...
South Africa's 2011 census started today, with the homeless and babies born after midnight being the first to be counted, opposition leaders and voters in Cameroon have complained of delays at...
A total of 2 071 487 serious crimes were committed in South Africa in 2010/11, according to the crime statistics released by the South African Police Service. This compared with 2 121 887 cases...
The Judicial Services Commission, or JSC, has recommended to President Jacob Zuma that Mogoeng Mogoeng be the next Chief Justice, yesterday, Sudan demanded that the southern-aligned Sudan People's...
Roads around the ANC's headquarters in Johannesburg were open this morning, when Youth League leader Julius Malema's disciplinary hearing was set to continue, opposition parties urged the ANC to...
ANC leaders under President Jacob Zuma risk losing Cosatu's support if they do not pull up their socks, the labour federation said, French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde clinched the top job at...
According to the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) the government's New Growth Path, unveiled late last year, was not enough to fundamentally transform South Africa's economy,...
Amid the excitement of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, an announcement by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation in June 2010 that it has again decided not to award its lucrative annual governance prize this year went...