Politics and Legal

Somalia: Hassan Sheikh Mohamud elected President

Somalia's Parliament on Monday elected Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, aged 56, as President of Somalia for the next four years. The…

Briefing: The Egyptian revolution undone?

Mohamad Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) has been declared the official winner of the first…

Sudanese experts confer on Ethiopia’s Renaissance dam in Khartoum

As reported previously, Sudan held a symposium titled “Ethiopia’s Millennium Dam and future of development in the Sudan”, last week.…

Egypt’s Elections: Court may throw everything topsy-turvy this week

Highlights: Only two days before the election, the Supreme Constitutional Court will consider two cases that could potentially throw everything…

Egypt’s election: The first round is over, now comes the hard part

Elections are vastly complicated affairs, the dominant characteristic of which appears to be unpredictability. Egypt’s presidential election in 2012 was…

Kenya: Survivors of post-election violence seek more than resettlement

Most of those displaced by post-election violence mainly in Kenya’s Rift Valley Province five years ago have been resettled, but…

US State Dept. | 2011 Human Rights Reports: Ethiopia

The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor of US State Department issued its annual report concerning ‘Human Rights and…

Norway to start repatriating Ethiopian refugees

Over 70 Ethiopians have elected to leave Norway voluntarily under the government’s recent repatriation agreement. According to the Directorate of…

Egypt’s Presidential Elections: What do the Military Want?

On 23 May, Egyptians head to the polls to elect the first president of the post-Mubarak era. Whilst this is…

Somalia: Elders confer on draft Constitution, for legislative elections

The conference of Somali elders in Mogadishu which opened last Saturday has continued all this week. It is supposed to…

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