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The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, has appealed to the military junta in Mali to announce an acceptable timetable for elections. Guterres reacted to the junta's suggestion that they would remain in power for five…

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says ruling party, the African National Congress, must work to regain popular support after being embroiled in corruption scandals and divided by bitter factional rivalries. Marking the ANC's 110th…

Angola's ruling party, MPLA, elected, President João Lourenço as the candidate for the August 2022 presidential elections. The election of João Lourenço for a second mandate takes place five days after the main opposition party, UNITA,…

Equatorial Guinea has created surprise by not choosing its candidate for the 2023 presidential election at the ruling party's congress. This is a first in a country ruled by Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo. The Democratic Party of…

An extraordinary congress of Burundi's ruling party elected former Senate President Reverien Ndikuriyo to succeed the incumbent Burundian President Evariste Ndayishimiye as the new party leader. Ndikuriyo was elected as the Secretary…