Southern Africa unlike other parts of the continent has had a number of White government officials in post-colonial Africa. With Zimbabwe recently appointing Kirsty Coventry as Youth, and Sports Minister, we take a look at the rarity of White African politicians in many countries. We ask: Why do White Africans seem to be on the periphery of the political sphere?
President Paul Kagame has pardoned prominent opposition figure Victoire Ingabire. It is a move that the Rwandan government claims has no political implications despite Ingabire serving six of a 15-year sentence for conspiring to undermine the government and minimise the 1994 genocide.
Parliamentarians in Equatorial Guinea cannot travel without express permission by Vice-President Teodorin Nguema Obiang, the son of the president. The official notice stated that the directive is “on the grounds of national interest”.
The spokesperson for Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has stated that the leader has been “comfortably” re-elected despite opposition claims of evidence of electoral fraud in the run-off poll. More than a thousand supporters have been protesting the result.
IIhan Omar gained international attention in 2016 when she became the first Somali-American to be elected to a state legislature. She has made history again by winning a Democratic primary in Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District, which could see her go all the way to Congress.
The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Global Liveability Index ranks 140 urban centres based on factors that range from infrastructure, crime, education and healthcare to political and social stability. On its list of the 10 least liveable cities, six are African.
All Eritrean men between the ages of 18 – 50 have to serve in the army for more than 20 years, forcing thousands to flee. But things look set to change.
Following the signing into law of the Not Too Young To Run Bill by President Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s youth will be hopeful of electing one of their own in the 2019 general election, writes Patrick Egwu.
The Movement for the Liberation of Congo has declared the newly acquitted Congolese politician Jean-Pierre Bemba as its candidate for the Democratic Republic of Congo’s upcoming presidential election
The 2018 Mali election is set to go into a run-off after the main opposition candidate, Soumaila Cisse, stated that the “incumbent president can’t win in the first round”. The voting process has been marred by armed attacks and other forms of violence, which halted voting in three percent of the country’s polling stations, the government has said.
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