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Nearly two years after leading a coup that ended more than five decades of Bongo family rule, Gabon’s military leader, Brice Oligui Nguema, has officially announced his candidacy for the April 12 presidential elections. Following the…

Former Ivorian Prime Minister Pascal Affi N'Guessan named candidate for the Popular Ivorian Front (FPI) in the 2025 presidential election. At a congress in Yamoussoukro, the Ivorian capital, N'Guessan was re-elected president of the FPI…

One of the candidates challenging Tunisian President Kais Saied in the country's presidential election next month has been sentenced to prison on fraud charges that his attorney decried as politically motivated. Two weeks after his…

An opposition candidate in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has filed a petition before the Constitutional Court against the victory of Félix Tshisekedi's in the country's presidential election. According to provisional figures…

Business magnate and former provincial governor Moïse Katumbi held his last campaign rally in Lubumbashi on Monday. The 58-year-old is one of 19 candidates vying for the presidency in the 20th December elections. The presidential race…

For Congolese presidential candidate Martin Fayulu, the upcoming elections are a chance for him to win a victory he believes he was robbed of in the last vote in 2018. Calling him president-elect, supporters of Fayulu were out in force…

The party of Senegal’s jailed opposition leader, Ousmane Sonko, says it was sponsoring its number two politician, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, as candidate for the 25th February presidential election. The announcement came just days after the…

Senegalese President Macky Sall officially nominated his Prime Minister, Amadou Ba, as the candidate representing his party in the upcoming February 2024 presidential election. This significant announcement was jointly made by the…

The camp of Albert Ondo Ossa, President Ali Bongo Ondimba's main rival in Saturday's election in Gabon, whose official results are still awaited, again claimed on Monday to have won and called on the Head of State to "Organize the transfer…

Zimbabwe's ruling party, ZANU-PF, endorses President Emmerson Mnangagwa as sole party candidate ahead of next year's polls. Speaking at the party's congress in Harare, President Mnangagwa called for unity in the party. “Let us…