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Outgoing Commonwealth chief is pushing for Zimbabwe’s readmission

Top Commonwealth officials and senior British diplomats favour bringing Harare back into the fold – despite a damning report on last year’s elections

The Commonwealth Secretariat is working to support Zimbabwe’s application to be readmitted to the mainly Anglophone, ex-British colonial group of nations, Africa Confidential has learned. The outgoing Secretary-General,...

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In power for six decades, the ruling BDP promises change

Running for a second term, President Masisi is helped by opposition splits but his economic plans lack credibility

Against a backdrop of rising youth unemployment and tumbling diamond revenues, Botswana’s elections on 30 October are set to be among its most closely fought since independence in...

Kigali tightens its security grip as Nyusi bows out

The furore over Mozambique’s national elections this month may complicate Rwanda’s military role in the northern Cabo Delgado province

Rwanda’s military, invited by President Filipe Nyusi to push back insurgents and guard the gas export plant in Cabo Delgado, is expanding its security operations and business interests...

Why Mnangagwa’s gold-backed currency keeps falling

Corruption, over-spending and government borrowing from the central bank  are undermining the sixth attempt at a local currency

Mass scepticism greeted Reserve Bank Governor John Mushayavanhu’s assertion on 11 October that last month’s 43% devaluation of the Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG) currency was a 'once-off' event and...

Evidence of vote stealing mounts

Independent monitors and all the opposition parties question the credibility of the presidential and parliamentary elections

The state-backed Comissão Nacional de Eleições (CNE) has released results from each province, indicating a strong win for the ruling party Frelimo. It has until 25 October to...

Mondlane’s vote surge overturns the status quo

Railing against joblessness and hardship, young voters deserted Frelimo and long-time opposition Renamo

Ruling party Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (Frelimo) and leading opposition politician Venâncio Mondlane, an independent who ran on the ticket of the tiny Partido Otimista pelo Desinvolvimento...

Wild card Mondlane tests ruling party’s election tactics

After 50 years in power, Frelimo’s right to rule is on the ballot and national politics will see a generational change

On 9 October, ruling Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (Frelimo) faces its toughest election since multi-party politics started in 1994. A wild card quasi-independent candidate has shaken up...

MK pins its hopes on Shivambu

The new national organiser, who defected from the EFF, is expected to develop clearer policies for the struggling party

Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party has wasted no time in getting its policy tsar to work, laying on motorcades around the provinces with local MK leaders, political...

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