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Officers in the main rebel group in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo say they have ousted their leader, Gen Laurent Nkunda – a claim he denies.

CNDP officers told Paul Ndiho they had removed Gen Nkunda because of what they described as “bad governance and corruption”.

But Gen Nkunda speaking to Vipi Africa by telephone from Eastern Congo denied the media reports saying that it was not true.

The CNDP launched a major offensive in August, which displaced more than a quarter of a million people and raised fears of a wider regional war. Paul Ndiho has more

Guinea’s coup leader has frozen the country’s numerous mining contracts and gold extractions as part of what he called an anti-corruption drive. The West African country sits on one-third of the world’s reserves of bauxite reserves, the raw material used to make aluminum, and also has important reserves of gold, diamonds, and other minerals.

But because of corruption and mismanagement, Guinea ranks 160 out of 177 in the United Nation’s development scale. Paul Ndiho has more.

Opposition leader John Atta Mills was declared Ghana’s next president Saturday in a peaceful ballot that secured the West African nation’s place as a beacon of democracy on a volatile continent.

The country is one of the few in Africa to successfully transfer power twice from one legitimately elected leader to another, proof that Ghana’s democracy has truly matured after an era of coups and dictatorship in the 1970s and 1980s.

But tensions still ran high in what became the closest vote in Ghana’s history, and some feared violence could erupt as it did earlier this year in Kenya — an East African nation that also was a model of stability until a similarly tight 2007 ballot unleashed weeks of tribal bloodshed.

Ghana’s ruling party candidate, Nana Akufo-Addo, had threatened to reject the results, but withdrew his court challenges and conceded peacefully. President John Kufuor appealed on both sides to accept the outcome and his call appeared aimed at his own governing party. Paul Ndiho Has more.

By Paul Ndiho in Washington DC
The outcome of Ghana’s presidential run-off is too close to call and will be decided by voting on Friday in a single constituency where balloting has yet to take place, the electoral commission said on Tuesday.

In a twist to what was already a tense and closely fought race, the commission said the outstanding vote in the Tain constituency would determine the final result of the election in the West African state, the world’s No. 2 producer of cocoa.

With votes counted from 229 of the 230 constituencies, John Atta Mills of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) held a slender lead with 50.13 per cent of the votes, while Nana Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) had 49.87 percent.
Only 23,050 votes separated the two.

Tensions are high in Ghana as official results from the knife-edge run-off presidential poll are to be released.

Opposition candidate John Atta Mills claims he has won, but the governing NPP party insisted the result remained too close to call. Paul Ndiho has been monitoring the results as they come in very closely and files this report.

In a historic move, the Tanzanian government is offering citizenship to Burundian refugees and their families who fled their homeland in 1972. Burundi has been plagued by civil strife since it achieved independence from Belgium in 1962. Paul Ndiho has more.

Hundreds of Nigerian children from the richest and poorest homes in Lagos are beginning to document their lives in a photo exhibition meant to help educate the world about the extremes between the Rich and the poor in Africa’s most populous nation. Paul Ndiho has the story

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As piracy explodes off Somalia’s lawless coast, the questions become ever more stark: How can ragtag bands of Somali pirates stand up to international warships? And why not just shoot the bandits when they try to clamber aboard?

First, the pirates are not as ragtag as one might expect. And second, it’s a big ocean.

In Somalia, pirates are well-funded, well-organized and have easy access to heavy weapons in a country that has been in tatters for nearly two decades. Pirates travel in open skiffs with outboard engines, working with larger ships that tow them far out to sea. They use satellite navigational and communications equipment and have an intimate knowledge of local waters, clambering aboard commercial vessels with ladders and grappling hooks.

Any blip on an unwary ship’s radar screens, alerting the crew to nearby vessels, is likely to be mistaken for fishing trawlers or any number of smaller, non-threatening ships that take to the seas every day. Here is more…