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Alex Thurston is a writer/blogger (among other things) on political and social issues in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa: "Sudan’s ele...

My friend and colleague Alex writes about contemporary politics in Nigeria, Sudan, Senegal, Mali, Niger, Chad, Ethiopia and Somalia, to name...

Sudan's parliament has approved a controversial bill paving the way for a referendum on possible independence for the country's oil-...

BLANTYRE, Nov 23, 2009 (MalawiPolitics) -- Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika, whose party enjoys a parliamentray majority, is seeking to...

Governmental shuffling of the Kenyan police force, but will it amount to anything more than a cosmetic reshuffling to placate prevailing pol...

Muslims cautioned over document on elections Minister says guidelines to be released on Friday should not cause disharmony By Paul Dotto, Da...

I've commented on this before in my book review of Odinga Odinga's Not Yet Uhuru. The fact is that those who fought most tenaciousl...

Memo From Nairobi (New York Times) NAIROBI, Kenya — The envelope, please — those are the words on many Kenyans’ lips. Ever since last year’s...

Al Jazeera English - Africa - Full text: Obama's Ghana speech Shared via AddThis

So what REALLY happenned in Iran? Fellow blogger and international scholar Austin Thompson posted something about a month ago, when this st...