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Djibouti votes in parliamentary elections Friday, 24th February. Kadar Abdi Ibrahim, secretary general of the only opposition party in the running, believes that "there is no substantive debate in this legislative election". Aden Omar…

Rached Ghannouchi, the leader of the Ennahdha party and one of the main opponents of President Kais Saied has appeared before the counter-terrorism court in Tunis. He was charged with incitement after allegedly referring to the police as…

Senegalese opposition politician Ousmane Sonko was forcibly removed from his vehicle by security forces after his supporters were dispersed by teargas, in a new bout of tension ahead of presidential elections due next year. The incidents…

Malian ruling junta says that it was expelling the head of the human rights division of MINUSMA, the UN mission there, giving him 48 hours to leave the country. The decision comes after a Malian rights activist last month denounced the…

Official results after voting ended in Tunisia, on 29th January, highlighted that just 11.3 percent of voters had taken part in the poll. The country’s main opposition coalition which includes the Islamist-inspired Ennahdha urged a…

Dozens of Zimbabwean opposition activists, including a lawmaker arrested at the weekend when police raided the house of an MP for alleged unlawful gathering, were in court Monday seeking bail. The hearing which continues Tuesday, was…

Zimbabwean police fired teargas at an opposition party gathering in Harare and arrested 25 of its members, including two members of parliament, the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) said. The arrests come after a wave of politically…

The Senegalese authorities have barred a demonstration planned for Friday in Dakar by the opposition, to denounce irregularities in the management of an anti-covid fund identified in a report by the Court of Auditors, an official source…

Opposition supporters have staged a rally in a suburb east of the Liberian capital, Monrovia. “The demonstrators demand government action in the face of increasing hardship”. Opposition party, Collaborating Political Parties (CPP) …

A Zimbabwean court released on bail 14 opposition activists arrested after clashes with ruling party members at a funeral for an opposition supporter whose mutilated body was found in a well. The members of the main opposition Citizens…