Opposition candidate John Atta-Mills Monday maintained a slim lead over the ruling party's Nana Akufo-Addo in Ghanaian presidential elections seen as a test of its democratic credentials. Atta-Mills of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) had 50.43 percent of the vote against 49.57 percent for Akufo-Addo of the ruling New Patriotic Party, with 225 out of 230 constituencies ...

Opposition candidate John Atta-Mills maintained a slim lead over the ruling party's Nana Akufo-Addo in the vote count in Ghana's elections, media reported Monday, amid mutual accusations of intimidation. Atta-Mills edged ahead as a US envoy accused both sides of being irresponsible and observers said there had been more incidents in the tense runoff vote than in the ...

Zimbabwe's government on Tuesday slammed US President George Bush's government's declaration of loss of confidence in President Robert Mugabe as a "diplomatic flute" by an outgoing administration. "We have no time for US President George W. Bush's diplomatic flute. We are talking about an administration whose sun has set. Why bother?," Mugabe's spokesman George Charamba ...

A stalled power-sharing agreement in Zimbabwe came under fresh strain on Monday after Western powers said it would be unacceptable if Robert Mugabe were to remain president. Although the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) is committed to a deal that would allow Mugabe to stay on as president while its leader Morgan Tsvangirai would become prime minister, both the ...