http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance EssentialAfrica Drum Politics en 60 http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=52426 Fifteen Algerian political parties that claim to have been cheated of votes in May 10 elections should leave parliament if they refuse to accept the result, the interior minister said Wednesday. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#10400 Thu, 24 May 2012 11:15:13 +0200 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18182991 Egyptians are voting for the second day in the country's first free presidential elections - 15 months after Hosni Mubarak was ousted. Queues are being reported at some polling stations, though turnout does not appear as high as on Wednesday. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#10397 Thu, 24 May 2012 10:49:43 +0200 http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/152841385.html Tunisia said Tuesday that it will soon extradite Al-Baghdadi Al-Mahmoudi back to his homeland, after detaining the former Libyan prime minister for eight months. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#10374 Wed, 23 May 2012 11:02:43 +0200 http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5giYXv3AsRRRmsMPqELozQT5hd1KQ?docId=CNG.bf088f80d1669d18c093a18093e1cbd4.491 Algeria's largest legal Islamist party on Sunday announced that it would turn down any offer to join the government following legislative polls it claims were fraudulent. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#10340 Mon, 21 May 2012 09:31:41 +0200 http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Benghazi-holds-post-Gaddafi-vote-20120520 Residents of Benghazi have voted for a local council in the first elections in the eastern Libyan city since the capture and killing of longtime dictator Muammar Gaddafi last year. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#10333 Sun, 20 May 2012 21:04:21 +0200 http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/UN-has-confidence-in-W-Sahara-envoy-20120517 The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday gave strong backing to his Western Sahara envoy Christopher Ross after the Moroccan government said it had "no confidence" in the diplomat. Morocco's attack on Ross follows months of growing tensions between the Rabat government and the United Nations over Western Sahara, ... http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#10326 Sat, 19 May 2012 14:04:47 +0200 http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Equatorial-Guinea-government-resigns-20120519 The government of Equatorial Guinea's prime minister Ignacio Milam Tang resigned in line with a constitutional reform approved in November, the country's communications minister said on Friday. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#10324 Sat, 19 May 2012 13:39:05 +0200 http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE84I00U20120519 Angolan opposition party UNITA expects tens of thousands to join nationwide rallies on Saturday to call for a fair election and celebrate a court win against the government over the head of the election commission, a party spokesman said on Friday. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#10322 Sat, 19 May 2012 13:10:17 +0200 http://mg.co.za/article/2012-05-17-lesotho-in-personality-poll Lesotho goes to the polls on May 26 and as 15 parties battle it out in the closely fought election, the country's problems are largely ignored. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#10318 Fri, 18 May 2012 11:31:17 +0200 http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFL5E8GHHKO20120518 Angola's Supreme Court has annulled the appointment of the country's electoral commission chief.. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#10305 Fri, 18 May 2012 09:44:39 +0200 http://www.africareview.com/News/Malagasy+leader+to+meet+UN+boss/-/979180/1407594/-/4l7o3f/-/index.html Madagascar’s leader Andry Rajoelina will be travelling to New York to meet UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#10302 Thu, 17 May 2012 10:05:54 +0200 http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE84E01H20120515 Abdel Hakim Belhadj, one of Libya's most powerful militia leaders, is quitting to devote himself full-time to politics, an aide said on Monday, in a vote of confidence for the fragile transition from rebellion to democracy. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#10270 Tue, 15 May 2012 10:14:53 +0200 http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/05/15/214182.html A leading Egyptian presidential candidate lashed out Monday at an Islamist lawmaker who accused him of graft, treating voters to a new spectacle in an already unprecedentedly heated campaign. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#10267 Tue, 15 May 2012 10:12:42 +0200 http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestory/2012/05/201251465357500445.html Algeria's ruling National Liberation Front won almost half of the 462 seats in the Algerian parliament in Thursday's parliamentary elections. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#10260 Mon, 14 May 2012 16:01:40 +0200 http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Somalia+faces+acid+test+ahead+of+new+order++/-/1066/1404696/-/item/0/-/wefwkbz/-/index.html On a political path strewn with obstacles and dangers, Somalia stands at a new crossroads. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#10255 Mon, 14 May 2012 15:54:07 +0200 http://mg.co.za/article/2012-05-10-zimbabwe-army-enters-political-fray Zimbabwean military officials want a more prominent role in and outside Zanu-PF and openly back the party. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#10243 Fri, 11 May 2012 14:52:33 +0200 http://www1.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-05-11-d-day-for-the-icc-in-africa The African Union would like to change this and have Africa take responsibility for enforcing its own justice, .. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#10241 Fri, 11 May 2012 14:50:36 +0200 http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/05/11/213416.html Egyptian presidential hopefuls Amr Moussa and Abdel Moneim Abol Fotouh traded barbs about their past in a debate that captured the historic moment facing a nation preparing for its first real election for head of state. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#10226 Fri, 11 May 2012 10:48:44 +0200 http://www.timeslive.co.za/world/2012/05/10/zambia-s-sata-accuses-western-diplomats-of-meddling Zambia's President Michael Sata on Thursday warned Western diplomats against meeting opposition leaders.... http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#10223 Thu, 10 May 2012 16:57:00 +0200 http://allafrica.com/stories/201205100817.html There have been mixed responses to a day of national protest called for by opposition parties in Guinea, who are demanding dialogue with the government on the holding of legislative elections. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#10215 Thu, 10 May 2012 16:48:53 +0200 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/world/middleeast/egypt-presidential-election-is-suspended-by-court.html?_r=1 An administrative court on Wednesday suspended Egypt’s presidential election, scheduled to start on May 23, but legal experts said the ruling was expected to have little effect, and the candidates continued their campaigns, including preparations for the first televised debate Thursday night. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#10206 Thu, 10 May 2012 10:43:10 +0200 http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/west/Guinea-Opposition-Plans-Protests-to-Push-for-Electoral-Dialogue-150629155.html Guinea's opposition leaders are calling for nationwide protests to push for dialogue with the government about much-delayed legislative elections. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#10202 Wed, 9 May 2012 16:01:32 +0200 http://www1.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-05-09-new-president-new-broom-malawis-about-turn-for-the-better It hasn’t taken long for new President Joyce Banda to put her stamp on Malawi. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#10201 Wed, 9 May 2012 15:57:25 +0200 http://somalilandsun.com/index.php/world/659-somaliland-djibouti-somaliland-diplomatic-accords-boosted The President of Djibouti H.E. Ismail Omar Gelle and Somaliland's foreign affairs minister Dr Mohamed Abdilahi Omar and Interior Minister Hon Duur Arale enhance diplomatic relations http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#10197 Wed, 9 May 2012 15:51:20 +0200 http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/41261.aspx Choking with disgust at their political class, many Algerian youths want no part in this week's polls and see leaving the country as the only solution to their despair http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#10194 Wed, 9 May 2012 15:44:49 +0200 http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/25546 Cultural Boycott against Swaziland’s undemocratic regime. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#10180 Tue, 8 May 2012 16:43:52 +0200 http://www.newera.com.na/articles/44767/Kilus-denies-witchcraft-claims Deputy Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Kilus Nguvauva, has dismissed allegations that he is plotting to kill the Paramount Chief of one Ovambanderu faction, Queen Aletha Karikondua Nguvauva, through witchcraft ... http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#10176 Tue, 8 May 2012 16:34:32 +0200 http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/07/us-algeria-vote-islamists-idUSBRE8460FL20120507 Moderate Islamist parties should emerge the winners of a parliamentary election in Algeria on Thursday but they are unlikely to push for substantial change in a country ruled by the same elite since independence half a century ago. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#10169 Tue, 8 May 2012 11:43:33 +0200 http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE84700820120508 Egypt's presidential elections committee said it would stop its work in preparation for presidential elections due later this month after what it said was an insult to the committee by members of parliament during its session on Monday. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#10166 Tue, 8 May 2012 11:36:48 +0200 http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/40758.aspx Egypt's ruling military council held a press conference early Thursday afternoon in Cairo to discuss Wednesday's violent clashes http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#10123 Thu, 3 May 2012 16:43:27 +0200 http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/Somalia-PM-Plans-Constitutional-Government-by-August-149868625.html Somalia's Transitional Federal Government is making preparations to hand over power to an elected government in August. The surprising development is being engineered by a Somali-American technocrat intent on ending his native country's reputation as a failed state. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#10109 Thu, 3 May 2012 11:33:16 +0200 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-17930578 Libya's National Transitional Council has lifted a ban on religious parties taking part in June's election. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#10100 Thu, 3 May 2012 11:18:39 +0200 http://www.gallup.com/poll/154088/African-Leaders-Enjoy-Strong-Support.aspx Residents in most of the 34 sub-Saharan African countries Gallup surveyed in 2011 gave high marks to their chief political executives, including residents in Mali, where the president was ousted in a military coup late last month. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#10078 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:01:25 +0200 http://blogs.voanews.com/breaking-news/2012/04/30/ecowas-slaps-sanctions-on-guinea-bissau/ West African regional bloc ECOWAS says it has imposed sanctions on Guinea-Bissau, after talks with the military junta broke down. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#10077 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:00:40 +0200 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iQPXPh7KfK_iSgjcrA3pity0A_4w?docId=bcce1e1065444562b2a72db04ba0ad7c Egypt's ruling military council promised Sunday to reshuffle the Cabinet, hours after the Islamist-dominated parliament suspended sessions to protest the panel's failure to heed repeated calls for the government's dismissal. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#10061 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:47:40 +0200 http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE83Q01G20120427 New Malawian President Joyce Banda has named her cabinet from several opposition parties, state radio said on Thursday, in a move to garner broad parliamentary support and woo donors back to the impoverished nation. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#10057 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:09:53 +0200 http://articles.boston.com/2012-04-26/news/31412283_1_mustafa-abdul-jalil-ntc-national-transitional-council Libya’s interim ruling council has fired the nation’s Cabinet just five months after it took office, citing incompetence, two senior officials said Thursday, just two months before the country’s first national election. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#10055 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:54:44 +0200 http://www.africareview.com/News/Egypt+announces+list+of+presidential+candidates/-/979180/1394460/-/13i8uvkz/-/index.html Egypt's electoral committee announced on Thursday the list of 13 candidates for next month's first post-uprising presidential poll http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#10045 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:11:48 +0200 http://www.africareview.com/News/Zambia+President+showers+Mugabe+with+praise/-/979180/1394258/-/mlvxl/-/index.html Zambian President Michael Sata praised Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe as an architect of the liberation struggle.... http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#10044 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:10:59 +0200 http://www.timeslive.co.za/africa/2012/04/26/bid-to-limit-presidential-term-set-to-fail-uganda A bid to limit the tenure of Uganda's longtime president looks set to fail, Ugandan politicians said, as ruling party officials argue he needs more time than the 26 years he has already served. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#10042 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:28:04 +0200 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/9227691/Egypt-reinstates-Mubaraks-last-prime-minister-in-presidential-race.html Egypt's election commission reinstated Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister in the presidential race on Wednesday, a day after disqualifying him. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#10038 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:02:16 +0200 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-17834985 Firebrand youth leader Julius Malema has lost his appeal against expulsion from South Africa's ruling ANC, the party says. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#10017 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:57:25 +0200 http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/04/25/210076.html Libyan authorities on Tuesday passed legislation governing the formation of political organizations which rules out religious, regional and tribal platforms and bans foreign funding. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#10016 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:56:45 +0200 http://www.africareview.com/News/Somalia+says+draft+constitution+ready/-/979180/1392684/-/12bg3oz/-/index.html Somalia's prime minister has said that a draft constitution has been finalised, bring to a near end an eight-year search http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#10005 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:21:39 +0200 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/24/world/middleeast/in-egypt-morsi-escalates-battle-over-islams-role.html?_r=1&smid=tw-nytimes&seid=auto Mohamed Morsi is also a leading candidate to become the country’s next president. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#10003 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:18:07 +0200 http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/04/24/uk-morocco-politics-pm-idUKBRE83N00620120424 Morocco's prime minister has hit out at courtiers around King Mohammed in rare criticism that could signify the start of a confrontation between the Islamist-led government and powerful figures close to the palace. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#10000 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 08:54:57 +0200 http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/23/us-algeria-vote-fln-idUSBRE83M0M120120423 The party at the heart of power since Algeria's independence from France is convulsed by an internal revolt that may be an early skirmish in the battle to succeed 75-year-old President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#9998 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 08:53:53 +0200 http://www.timeslive.co.za/africa/2012/04/23/new-malawi-party-formed A Sandton-based Malawian businessman has announced his bid to campaign for his country's 2014 presidential elections following the death of President Bingu wa Mutharika earlier this month. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#9992 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:07:24 +0200 http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE83M05420120423 The party at the heart of power since Algeria's independence from France http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#9989 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:00:16 +0200 http://www.timeslive.co.za/africa/2012/04/23/thousands-in-mauritanian-anti-regime-protest?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=sabreakingnews Thousands of young Mauritanian opposition protesters took to the streets of Nouakchott to demand President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, a former coup leader, step down. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-governance#9988 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:59:26 +0200