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Gambia is holding a hotly contested presidential election this Saturday. It is the first such exercise since the departure of former ruler Yahya Jammeh in 2017. President Adama Barrow, who is seeking re-election, is facing competition…

Libyan interim Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah has filed his candidacy to run for president in next month’s elections despite being barred from elections under the current rules. Abdul Hamid Dbeibah is meant to lead the country until…

Libyan High National Elections Commission has said on Sunday it would open registration on Monday for candidates in presidential and parliamentary elections that have been mandated by a U.N.-backed roadmap on 24th December. Wrangling over…

The Gambian President Adama Barrow has declared his candidacy for the 4th December presidential poll, with campaigning in the hotly contested election set to begin next week. Thousands of supporters lined the streets in the capital…

South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) took 46% of the vote in municipal elections, the final count showed on Thursday, the party's worst election outcome since taking power at the end of white minority rule in 1994. The…

South Africans has started voting on Monday in municipal elections, with the ruling African National Congress (ANC) facing discontent over poor services and stark inequality 27 years after ending white minority rule. The ANC's rise to…

Democratic Republic of Congo's constitutional court has sworn in an electoral commission chief whose contested nomination threatens to weaken President Felix Tshisekedi's ruling coalition. The country's religious groups, who are seen as…

A five-man petition panel for the state congress of the All-Progressives Congress (APC) has arrived in Kano state to listen to complaints and receive petitions bothering on the recently concluded election. It would be recalled that two…

Somalian president and prime minister resolved a dispute over appointments to security bodies, allowing a stalled process to elect a new parliament and president to go ahead, the government spokesman said late on Thursday. Somalia was…

Former Chairman, Independent National Election Commission (INEC), in Nigeria, Professor Attahiru Jega, has said the electoral transmission of results will reduce the rate of election fraud in Nigeria. Professor Jega disclosed this in an…