Nigeria’s new anthem, written by a Briton, raises recolonisation concerns after contentious law is passed
Many Nigerians, however, took to social media to say they won’t be singing the new national anthem, among them Oby Ezekwesili, a former education minister and presidential aspirant who said that the new law shows that the country’s political class doesn’t care about the public interest.
South Africa poll: Zuma’s party gives ruling ANC a run for money as early results show it’s ceding ground
With results in from 16.7 per cent of polling stations, the ANC’s share of the vote in Wednesday’s election stood at 42.5 per cent, with the pro-business Democratic Alliance (DA) on 25.8 per cent, data from the electoral commission showed on Thursday.
Long wait for president: Fingers crossed as vote tallyng starts in South Africa and ANC risks ceding majority
The president is elected in Parliament after the national vote’s results are announced. South Africa’s Parliament has two houses and it’s the lower house, or National Assembly, that chooses the president. There, the 400 lawmakers vote for one of them to be the head of state and it needs a simple majority of 201. Because the ANC has always had a parliamentary majority since 1994, every president since then has been from the ANC, starting with Nelson Mandela.
Ex-Haiti PM Conille tapped to steer the island nation back to stability, root out violent gangs
Garry Conille’s naming underscores progress in Haiti’s political process and follows Prime Minister Ariel Henry’s resignation in March after he left Haiti to seek support for the Kenyan security mission and was unable to re-enter the country.
New poll finds South Africa’s ANC support around 42 per cent hours before voting starts
In a Tuesday update of the tracking poll by South African think tank the Social Research Foundation, the ANC’s support was estimated at 42.2 per cent on May 27, the latest day for which data is available, under a scenario modelled for the 66 per cent turnout seen at the last national election in 2019.
South Africa: ANC’s surprise election challenger evokes past anti-apartheid struggle and is drawing in numbers
That MK party, named after the ANC’s old armed wing, shows how the 82-year-old Zuma is leveraging the past to rally South Africans’ support against the ANC, which he himself once claimed would rule until “Jesus comes back.”
Walk from freedom: South Africa’s ANC loses favour with voters as it suffers ‘Kanu moment’
When Tell Media caught up with Salat to shed light on such unedifying comparisons. He summed it up as “an abuse of trust by Kanu” that is being replicated all over Africa. According to Salat, Kanu has become a “case study in Africa for betraying the wretched of the earth.”
Presidency: Ruto and Gachagua inflaming ethnic hostilities in Kenya as their regions row over resources
As President William Ruto toured Washington DC with senior officials in the United States, including President Joe Biden, a coterie of officials in the president’s United Democratic Alliance – the main party in the governing Kenya Kwanza Alliance – were busy tearing into each and opening further the fault-lines in the Kenya government.
Hours to South Africa’s elections, opposition parties ramp up attacks on ruling ANC, leftist EFF
Steenhuisen has repeatedly accused the ruling ANC and the leftist opposition party Economic Freedom Fighters of planning to go into coalition after the elections. Speaking ahead of its final rally in the city of Richards Bay in KwaZulu-Natal on Sunday, Inkatha Freedom Party leader Velenkosini Hlabisa said their main objective was to see the current government removed.
South Africa’s Ramaphosa walks tightrope as he promises to ‘do better’ if re-elected president
In comments broadcast on national television, he said the ANC would focus on getting more South Africans into work, tackle the high cost of living, maintain existing social grants and progressively implement a basic income support grant for the unemployed.
