Tunisians Voting in Presidential, Legislative Polls

Voters in Tunisia started voting Sunday morning to elect their new president and 214 MPs, for the next five years. Three opposition candidates, Ahmed Brahim Ettajdid (former communist), Mohamed Bouchiha (Popular Unity Party,) and Ahmed Inoubli (Unionist...

Botswana Opposition Leader Rejects Calls to Step Down

Botswana’s leader of the main opposition Botswana National Front (BNF) party, Otsweletse Moupo, has said that he would not resign following calls from BNF supporters that he should step down as his poor leadership had cost the party dearly in last week’s...

South Africa’s Ruling African National Congress Party “disgusted” Over Handling of Runner Caster Semenya

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress party has said that it was “disgusted” by the way international and South African athletics bodies had handled the case of world champion runner Caster Semenya, who is undergoing gender tests. “The...

International Observers Prepare for Botswana Polls

Botswana’s Independent Electoral Commission has said that it was receiving applications from international, regional and local observer bodies to take part in monitoring the country’s 16 October elections. Speaking in an interview with APA in the...

Moldova’s Opposition Forms New Coalition

Moldova’s four main opposition parties have announced that they have formed a coalition under the slogan For European Integration. “Moldova’s foreign policy will be based on a three-point principle. First – European integration....