elections

Comoros will hold elections to its 33-seat parliament on January 12, according to a decree published on Saturday, although opposition parties have said they will boycott the poll. The Indian Ocean archipelago, with a population of about…

The Association of African Election Authorities, in collaboration with the Independent Electoral Commission of South Africa, IEC have launched “The Principles and Guidelines for the Use of Digital and Social Media in Elections in Africa”.…

In Senegal, fifteen out of the twenty candidates approved to contest in the delayed presidential elections have united in a call for the vote to be conducted no later than 2nd April, coinciding with the end of President Macky Sall's term.…

The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo announced that a demonstration planned by the opposition on Wednesday to protest against the "irregularities" they claim marred the 20th -21st December elections would be banned. "The…

This is the environment in which Tunisians vote on Sunday for the country's first local elections since President Kais Saied wrote a new constitution that voters approved last year. Voting will determine the composition of a new National…

The new Kinshasa financial centre, a product of Turkish-Congolese cooperation, was inaugurated by Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi ahead of the presidential elections, with construction commencing in November 2022. The project,…

The citizens of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have commenced voting in critical general elections, with incumbent President Félix Tshisekedi seeking re-election amid a fragmented opposition in a politically and security-charged…

Whether they are in favor of change or continuity, whether they are full of hope or without any illusions, many in Kinshasa, the capital, Goma or Lubumbashi in the east, want to believe that the elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo…

The United States has called on the electoral authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to be transparent in announcing the results of Wednesday's elections, following missed deadlines in 2019. While US diplomacy praised the…

Egyptians living abroad began voting for the presidential election in their country, a vote for which President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is the big favourite and at the end of which he could begin a third term. This early election is…