Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Sunday lost his bid to remain the African Union Chairman. African leaders meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia instead lobbied for Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika. “My Malawian counterpart will replace me and take over but I will continue with my dream for a united Africa continent,” Gaddafi said. African Heads [...]

Tribal politics have for ages retarded development in most African states, Kenya’s Cooperatives Development and Marketing Minister Joseph Nyagah has said. While presenting a paper: ‘The Challenges of Leadership in Africa’ at Kellogg School of Management in Chicago on Saturday night, the minister stated that African states are currently tackling major challenges inhibiting development in [...]

Dadis Camara’s closest confidante in Guinea’s military junta, Colonel Moussa Keita,  has been arrested and taken into custody. There is clear indication from reports coming out of Guinea, that officers loyal to exiled Junta leader Dadis Camara, are determined to sabotage the peace agreement signed in Burkina Faso as long as their leader is kept [...]

Africa Union heads of state and government are converging in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for the 14th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of States and Governments. This year’s theme is Information & Communication Technology (ICT) in Africa Challenges & Prospects for Development in recognition of the role of ICT in development. The AU [...]

Sheryl Cwele, the wife of South Africa’s intelligence minister, Siyabonga Cwele,  has been arrested on drug-dealing charges. She has been charged with hiring the services of a woman to collect drugs in Turkey and arranging with another woman to smuggle cocaine from Brazil.  She was arraigned in court charged with conspiring to bring cocaine into [...]

An Al Qaeda proxy Islamist group early on Friday attacked government-controlled zones in Somalia leaving at least 12 dead and scores injured, officials said. The 2 a.m. local time attacks in the capital Mogadishu involved heavy artillery and automatic weapons, eyewitnesses said. The fighting erupted in the capital’s northern district of Hodan and the strategic [...]

Ousted Sudanese Prime Minister Sadiq Al-Mahdi has declared his interest in the upcoming April polls. Mr. Sadiq Al-Mahdi was elected in 1986 but was later ousted through a coup in 1989. Sadiq will go to the polls against current President Omar El Bashir who is facing criminal charges by the international criminal court for the [...]

Kenya Airport Security officer yesterday arrested  a woman with of consignment of heroin worth KSh80 million although the figure was likely to go up once all the consignment was analysed at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) shortly after it arrived from Tehran, Iran. The suspect, Scola Namunyu Mwangi, 40, a businesswoman, had [...]

When a country’s law enforcement agencies are plagued with institutional corruption and evidence of this is apparently in the hands of the Head of State,  you should expect clear, immediate and visible action. Corruption is at the core of administrative failure in Sierra Leone. The apparatus to address this ailment of society is either not [...]

The Obama administration has hinted that it will issue more travel bans in coming weeks against corrupt prominent persons frustrating the Kenya’s reform agenda. US Ambassador to Kenya Michael Ranneberger said the US is committed to supporting the reform agenda in Kenya and anyone opposed to reforms is unwelcome in the US. “We may [...]

Kenyan president has committed to seeing peace and post conflict rehabilitation of Southern Sudan. Kibaki said that Kenya would support capacity building to hasten development of Southern Sudan and attainment of political stability in the country. The Kenyan president said this as he met with Lt. Gen. Salva Kiir Mayardit who is Sudan’s first vice [...]