Africa Politics News

Monday.     Admiral Ahmed Ali Fadel, chief of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA), made the announcement during a press conference on Monday at the Suez Canal city of Ismailia, said the report, saying the transit fees will remain unchanged as imposed...

Ghana's outgoing leader John Kufuor has called for presidential terms to be extended from four years to five. In his last state of the nation address to parliament, President Kufuor said the extra year would give leaders time to complete...

Two journalists, from Britain and Spain, were released today after almost six weeks' captivity in Somalia's breakaway Puntland state, a senior police official said. "We're waiting for them at the hotel, but they are free and they are on their...

Herschelle Gibbs is a free man after he was released this past weekend from the Hout Bay rehabilitation centre where he had spent the last month. Cricket SA demanded that the 34-year-old opening batsman complete the rehabilitation programme after repeatedly...

African Union officials in Somalia have told the BBC they will plug the gaps left by departing Ethiopian troops...They also want their mandate beefed up so peacekeepers can use greater force when attacked by insurgents. Uganda and Burundi gave the...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Sunday extended his warm congratulation to the people and government of Ghana on "the peaceful and orderly resolution of the recently concluded presidential and legislative elections." Ban, in a statement issued by his spokesperson, said that...

Opposition leader John Atta Mills has been declared Ghana's next president in a peaceful ballot that secured the West African nation's place as a beacon of democracy on a volatile continent. The country is one of the few in Africa...

As the United States presidential election looms, it's not just polls in the US that are putting Democratic candidate Barack Obama in the lead. A witch doctor in Kogelo, western Kenya, where Obama's father grew up, on Saturday also predicted...