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ANC: End 'apartheid-style persecution' of Zuma

South Africa's ruling African National Congress on Monday accused the state of persecuting party leader Jacob Zuma by charging him with corruption and demanded that the case be dropped.

Speaking outside the High Court in the southern city of Pietermaritzburg, where hundreds of Zuma supporters demonstrated ahead of a key hearing in his case, ANC spokeswoman...

Violent Protests Continue to Ravage Kenya (Update)

Men, women and children bearing machetes and clubs chanted opposition slogans in the slums of the Kenyan capital Nairobi Thursday as a second day of protests over disputed presidential election polls got violently underway. Protestors in Mathare shantytown, unable to break a police barrier to reach the downtown rally called by the...

Opposition Supporters Clash With Police in Kenya

Chaos descended on parts of Kenya Wednesday as the first of three days of rallies saw opposition backers clash with police who fired tear gas and live rounds into crowds to thwart the demonstrations over disputed presidential polls. A sense of normalcy returned to some areas of the capital Nairobi in the morning, with Kenyans...

Kenyan Rival Parties Take Fight to Parliament

Tensions bubbled to the surface in the Kenyan parliament Tuesday as the house reopened for the first time since disputed presidential polls set off a political stalemate and ignited violence around the country that has killed nearly 600. The opening session continued into evening as members voted in a speaker and were set to be...

Kenyan Parliament Set to Open as Showdown Looms

Kenya's parliament is set to open Tuesday for the first time since flawed presidential elections last month touched off a wave of violence in the usually peaceful country that has killed at least 575 people, according to the Kenyan Red Cross Society. The opposition Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) is set to take its seats...

US Says Kenyan Leaders, Opposition Should Meet

The United States on Saturday said all sides must recognize "serious flaws" in the vote-counting process of Kenya's disputed election, and urged ruling and opposition leaders to meet immediately and "without preconditions" to break the cycle of violence. Jendayi Frazer, assistant secretary of state for African...

South African Police Chief Steps Down Amid Corruption Investigations

South African President Thabo Mbeki announced Saturday that National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi has been given an extended leave of absence in the latest development over corruption investigations against Selebi. Mbeki said that Selebi, 57, had requested the leave himself. Timothy Charles Williams, Deputy National...

Report: More Than 6,000 Kenyans Fled to Uganda

Over 6,000 Kenyans have fled to eastern Uganda from the on-going violence after last month's disputed general election that saw incumbent president Mwai Kibaki re-elected for a second term, UN and government sources said Saturday. Most of the displaced are huddled in camps around the border towns of Malaba and Busia and aid...

Kenya Opposition to Hold Mass Rally

Kenya's opposition party, the Orange Democracy Movement (ODM), called a three-day mass rally in 24 Kenyan cities next week to protest against President Mwai Kibaki after international mediation talks failed, an ODM spokesman said Friday. The mass rally, originally scheduled for Tuesday this week was cancelled to create a...

Kenya Mediation Talks End Without Success

Ghanaian President John Kufuor on Thursday ended his mediation efforts in the Kenyan election dispute without any visible success as newly-elected President Mwai Kibaki began swearing in his new cabinet in Nairobi. Further talks would be chaired by former UN secretary general Kofi Annan, Kufuor said before flying back to...

UN Security Council Criticizes Attack on Darfur Peacekeepers

UN Security Council members on Wednesday criticized Sudanese troops for shooting at a UN-African Union supply convoy in Darfur, the first such an attack since the joint force's deployment to try to end the ethnic conflict in that region. Jean-Marie Guehenno, UN undersecretary general for peacekeeping operations, told a closed-door...

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