Platini candidacy under attack

PM warns on wrong presidential candidacy
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Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda has warned members of the ruling party (CCM) against selecting wrong candidate to vie for presidential post through CCM's ticket. “There have been just too many declarations to contest for presidency, but the party has its ...

Egypt's military denies that its chief of staff, Field Marshal Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, told a Kuwaiti newspaper he would run for president.

>The Burundi Constitutional Court has approved the nomination of Mr Pierre Nkurunziza as the ruling CNDD-FDD party’s candidate for next month’s presidential election.

Egypt's top military body gives it approval for army chief Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, who led the ousting of Mohammed Morsi, to run for president.

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Presidential candidacy: Why Ukawa faces deadlock
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An unfriendly electoral legal framework, party subsidy implications and late decisions by the Coalition of the People's Constitution (UKAWA) on its resolve to field a single presidential candidate are impeding implementation of that vow. Well placed ...

Residents stage demo to oppose incumbent's candidacy
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THE residents of Sombetini and Ngusero areas in Arusha city have marched to oppose the decision by Chama cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (Chadema) to field the incumbent, Mr Ally Bananga, to vie for Sombetini ward councillor seat. The protestors, who ...

The Paris area was shocked by a major terrorist attack Friday night that is being claimed by the Neo-Caliphate terrorist group ISIS. But just hours before this attack was carried out, Facebook removed a key Anonymous group responsible for identifying and reporting thousands of social media accounts used by ISIS recruiters.
Regardless of your views on ISIS, their origins and who is pulling the strings and funding them, one thing is clear: they have been spreading their ideology and...

Liberia FA president Musa Bility says fellow Fifa presidential candidate Michel Platini does not represent change and is "unacceptable".

The Fifa panel investigating corruption allegations has called for sanctions to be taken against Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini.