Posts tagged politics

Ethiopia and Eritrea are putting an end to their volatile relationship, which has affected both countries since 2000, when an uneasy peace deal ended a two-year border war. “A new era of peace and friendship has been ushered [in]”, Yemane Gebre Meskel, Eritrea’s Information Minister, said on Twitter

Rugby Africa and the Tunisia Rugby Union (TRU) have apologised to Zimbabwe after their players slept on the street in protest at poor accommodation before a Gold Cup fixture against Tunisia. “I can assure you that there was absolutely no intention to destabilise our opponents,” said Khaled Babbou, an executive member of both TRU and Rugby Africa

The imprisonment of a Lebanese woman in Cairo for eight years for ‘harming the Egyptian people’ shows freedoms and liberties are waning in Egypt. Rights groups estimate that about 60 000 political prisoners are in jail under Pres Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, significantly more than under the previous regime.

The current turmoil in Cameroon is dire and stems from the Anglophone minority which makes up roughly 20% of the country’s population protesting their forced assimilation into the dominant Francophone society contrary to agreements that date back to the 1960s. The Francophone majority has been trying to quell the minority group’s public show of discontent.

Just a week after main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa claimed that President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration was trying to assassinate him, an explosion went off in Bulawayo, an opposition stronghold, at a Mnangagwa campaign rally, killing two people.

With the “intention of widening political space”, Ethiopia’s government is freeing thousands of prisoners accused of a variety of charges, such as terrorism or incitement to topple the government. This includes several senior opposition leaders and members of Ginbot 7, which is among five groups blacklisted under the government’s unreformed anti-terror legislation.

The polls won’t determine President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s survival – the economy is what counts.

To understand why women in Africa are less politically represented than men, one needs to look into the history of the continent’s gender gap when it comes to matters of leadership and governance.

Ethiopia has taken time and listened to the new prime minister. Now he needs to convert his vision into concrete policies

Africa is a continent full of beautiful history, but some of it is ugly and unpleasant. It is just as important to document and talk about the dark chapters for posterity. Uganda is doing just that with the announcement of plans to build an ‘Idi Amin museum’ to attract tourists. The museum will also showcase pre-colonial and colonial history.