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(AFP) – Moroccans voted Friday in the first legislative election since the king introduced constitutional reforms after the Arab Spring uprisings, with an Islamist party expected to make strong gains. The main contenders in the poll, the second in north Africa since the Arab Spring began, are the moderately Islamist Justice and Development party and a handful of liberal, secular ...

Zambia’s law enforcement agencies have unearthed Zambian kwacha 2.1 billion (approximately $412,000) in cash buried underground at the farm of a minister in the immediate past government, the country’s police chief confirmed Friday. Inspector-General of Police Martin Malama said officers from Zambia Police, the Anti Corruption Commission, ACC, and the Drug Enforcement Commission, DEC, jointly conducted a raid on the ...

Opposition Forum for Democratic Change leader Kizza Besigye is in the US to seek medical help following days of reported ill health, a senior party official has confirmed. This is the second time since April Dr Besigye had flown to the US on medical grounds. The first visit came after he was pepper-sprayed to near blindness by police officers at ...

A newsletter allegedly circulated by the opposition Congress for Democratic Change or CDC and circulated in Monrovia has listed several institutions, including media houses that it describes as “Axis of Evil,” and has asked all its members and sympathizers not to transact business with these institutions. The newsletter also lists several individuals, including President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, as personalities who planned ...

Members of Boko Haram sect has warned that it would soon embark on massive bombings of political party offices across the country to correct the impression that they are agents of politicians, even as they warned ordinary civilians who do not have anything to do with politics to stay away. The sect also stated that President Goodluck Jonathan, Senate President ...