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The Ethiopian journalist, blogger and founder of The Balderas for Genuine Democracy party, Eskinder Nega has expressed his intention to participate in a 'national dialogue'. After more than a year in prison, the 52-year-old opposition…

The main opposition party in Burkina Faso, CDP, has re-elected Eddie Komboïgo has its leader. The election took place during the 8th Congress in the capital, Ouagadougou. The party presented a new political bureau comprised of 89…

The Ivorian government has resumed dialogue with 21 opposition parties in a bid to bring unity to the West African country. In attendance were various government officials of the ruling party, former presidents Henri Konan Bédié and…

The party of Gambian opposition leader Ousainou Darboe announced that it appealed to the Supreme Court to annul the proclaimed re-election of the incumbent Adama Barrow in the presidential election, accusing him of multiple irregularities…

A court in Benin has condemned academic and political opponent Joël Aïvo to 10 years behind bars. The former presidential candidate was detained last April, the day after president Patrice Talon was re-elected with 86% of the vote.…

In Angola the main opposition party, UNITA, re-elected Adalberto Costa Júnior as leader of the opposition. In October, the Constitutional Court annulled his 2019 election as party leader. The decision of the court was announced on the…

Venezuela said it would suspend negotiations with the opposition that were set to resume this weekend, after Cape Verde extradited Colombian businessman Alex Saab,  a Venezuelan envoy, to the United States on money laundering charges.…

Congolese opposition leader Martin Fayulu has demanded an investigation after security forces brutally dispersed a rally he called over election reforms. Police fired in the air in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo capital on…

A leading figure in Guinea's opposition has urged regional bloc ECOWAS not to impose economic sanctions on Guinea's new military regime, describing the recent coup as a "welcome development". "The junta does not deserve to be sanctioned…

Taraba State Governor, Darius Ishaku says the presence of an opposition party in Nigeria is good for the development of the country. The Governor made the remark in Abuja on Friday, in an interview with State House Correspondents, after…