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On His 84th Birthday — Now a National Holiday — Mnangagwa Hints He'll Rule Zimbabwe Until 2035

Harare, Zimbabwe 

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa marked his 84th birthday this week the way few democratically elected leaders do: with a brand-new national public holiday declared in his honor, and with a public suggestion that he intends to remain in office for nearly another decade. Speaking at…

A Speech From a Screen: Washington Bars Abbas From the United Nations for a Second Year

The State Department has extended visa sanctions on Palestinian Authority and PLO officials days before the General Assembly's high-level week, forcing the Assembly to decide once more whether a president kept out of New York may address it by video.

Daily World Politics 

For the second…

Kenya's Opposition Draws Thousands to Nairobi as Political Violence Spreads Nationwide Ahead of 2027 Vote

Nairobi  

Kenya's fractured opposition delivered its clearest show of street strength in months on Sunday, when thousands of supporters turned out in Nairobi for a rally led by Senator Edwin Sifuna, testing President William Ruto's grip on the capital nearly a full year before the country returns to the…

Morocco Votes in Eight Days, and the Real Question Is Whether Gen Z 212 Shows Up

RABAT

Morocco's legislative campaign passed its midpoint on Tuesday, with eight days left before voters elect the 395 members of the House of Representatives on Sept. 23. Twenty-seven parties are competing. The governing coalition is defending its record. The Islamist opposition is attempting a comeback from…

Tanzania's Opposition Leader Nears a Verdict in a Treason Trial That Has Become a Record of the 2025 Election

DAR ES SALAAM

Tundu Lissu's treason trial resumed at 9 a.m. on Tuesday with prosecutors continuing to dismantle the testimony of his fifth defense witness, and with the High Court's own clock running down. On Sept. 7, Justice Dunstan Ndunguru told the courtroom that the case was supposed to have ended that day…

Tshisekedi Convenes a National Dialogue He Alone Controls, and Congo's Opposition Marches on Parliament

KINSHASA

Two days after President Félix Tshisekedi signed an ordinance creating the body that will organize his long-promised national dialogue, opposition supporters assembled across the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday to reject it, converging on the capital on the same morning that lawmakers returned…