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Nervy start to election season

An unpredictable battle between ex-presidents looms in September as the last nail is driven into the coffin of the Anti-Corruption Bureau

Malawi’s electoral process got off to an uncertain start as the opposition demanded the resignation of Malawi Electoral Commission chair Judge Annabel Mtalimanja and took to the streets...


Frelimo falters as a people’s uprising gathers steam

Anger is rising as civic activists say police have killed over 130 protestors and the Constitutional Council prepares to rule on disputed election

Mozambique’s police crossed a previously unthinkable line on 14 December when they opened fire on mourners after the funeral of 30-year-old Albino José Sibia, known as ‘Mano Shottas’....

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SWAPO bucks the regional trend

Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, the ruling party’s first female presidential candidate, now has to deliver on her jobs promise

SWAPO retained power in the presidential and legislative elections last month although on a smaller vote share than in 2019 amid claims by the opposition of skulduggery in...


London vetoes Harare

The British government has vetoed the re-admission of Zimbabwe to the Commonwealth, Africa Minister Lord Ray Collins confirmed in a written answer to a question about Zimbabwe’s readmission...


Zimbabwe readmission ‘is off’

The UK won’t support Zimbabwe’s readmission to the Commonwealth, we hear, although it could threaten its charm offensive on the continent

Commonwealth Secretary-General Baroness Patricia Scotland’s plan to re-admit Zimbabwe has run into resistance from Britain’s Labour government, diplomatic sources have told Africa Confidential. It was felt that taking...


The rise, fall and rise again of Jacob Zuma

Like his populist counterpart across the Atlantic, South Africa’s much prosecuted leader keeps bouncing back

Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party is shaping the landscape as it gears up for its first anniversary on 16 December, its ranks bolstered by several high-profile defectors...


SWAPO aims to avoid a Botswana-style upset

With incumbents out of favour in the region, the outcome of the elections is on a knife-edge

Vice-President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah (known as NNN) was swimming against the regional tide as she campaigned to become Namibia’s first female head of state in the parliamentary and presidential...


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