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Ghana president may break 'two term' party trend

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GHANA

President John Mahama faces no real challengers for the party's presidential ticket for 2016 elections. This stands in contrast to the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), whose…

Ghanian elections unlikely to alter Accra's priorities

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GHANA

Ghana election preview.

Nigerian ruling party will feel strain from Buhari bid

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NIGERIA

Buhari re-election bid

Philippines 'straight path' policies face crisis

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PHILIPPINES

Senior-level personnel changes in key government departments and the outlook for government policy in the Philippines.

South Africa’s DA will return to founding principles

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SOUTH AFRICA

Interim leader MP John Steenhuisen and former DA Youth Leader and KwaZulu-Natal provincial legislator Mbali Ntuli are vying for the post. After a bruising few years, the DA is…

Departure of New Zealand’s Key may open 2017 election

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NEW ZEALAND

The unexpected departure of a popular prime minister opens up more space for opposition parties in the next election due by early November 2017. On Key’s watch, New Zealand…

Museveni’s return poses challenges to EU-Africa treaty

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AFRICA/EU

However, his triumph also highlights the serious challenges that face a new EU-Africa trade and development treaty due to come onstream in late 2021 in relation to its trade, aid…

Osborne's windfall to boost UK Conservatives further

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UNITED KINGDOM

A fiscal windfall allowed Osborne to slow the pace of deficit reduction and escape what had been expected to be a politically challenging moment for the Conservative government.

Sanctions end aids Burundi but may entrench old flaws

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BURUNDI

This move, which was evidently coordinated and timed to coincide with President Evariste Ndayishimiye’s Brussels visit during the EU-African Union Summit, represents a major…

Domestic politics will drive South Sudan peace talks

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SOUTH SUDAN

The talks initially produced a declaration of commitment, signed on May 16, but have yet to produce a wider agreement, amid ongoing differences between the participants.