President Jacob Zuma on a state visit to Zambia
President Jacob Zuma’s in Lusaka on a state visit. His host, President Edgar Lungu paid a similar visit to South Africa ten months ago. President Zuma’s two-day state visit to Zambia’s aimed at deepening and strengthening the already existing good bilateral political, economic and cultural relations. They’re underpinned by strong historical ties that date back […]
Promising reports from Ebola vaccine trials
Two experimental vaccines against the Ebola virus have shown promise in protecting against the haemorrhagic fever for at least a year. The report in the New England Journal 0f Medicine is the first full account of a large-scale effort to test what could be the first vaccine against Ebola. The outbreak of the highly contagious […]
Irregularities reported in Liberia elections
One of Liberia’s main political parties has called for a delay in announcing the final result of Tuesday’s election, citing irregularities in the vote. Liberty Party candidate Charles Brumskine is not one of the front-runners to take over from Nobel Peace Prize winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. ends intro Local media puts former football star George […]
All eight Presidential candidates are on the re-run election ballot paper
Kenya’s indpendent electoral commission’s decided all eight candidates from August’s overturned presidential poll will appear on the ballot paper for the re-run election in a fortnight’s time. Political violence has sprung up as supporters of opposition candidate Raila Odinga, who’s withdrawn from the race, protest against the prospect of Uhuru Kenyatta scoring a runaway victory. […]