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Senegalese are votes in a key legislative election that's set to determine if the country's newly-elected president can carry out ambitious reforms. Voters in Senegal are choosing today 165 lawmakers in the nation's assembly, where the…

Ghana's main opposition leader John Dramani Mahama looks set to win December's presidential election, an opinion poll showed on Monday, placing him ahead of his main challenger, ruling party candidate Muhamudu Bawumia. Former president…

Tunisians head to the polls today to vote in the country's presidential election, that the opposition has said is neither free nor fair. President Kais Saied is seeking a second term in office, amid criticism that he has tried to limit the…

Three Senegalese opposition lawmakers were arrested amid the fallout from parliament's move to delay a presidential vote by 10 months that prompted West Africa's economic and political bloc to call for the re-establishment of the electoral…

Morocco won a vote to lead the United Nations Human Rights Council after a heated showdown with South Africa, which said Rabat's human rights record made it unfit to preside over the body. The Moroccan candidate, Ambassador Omar Zniber,…

Chadian Supreme Court has definitively validated the results of the referendum for a new constitution organized by the military junta that has been in power for the past two and a half years, a key step intended to pave the way for…

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 DR Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi held his last political rally ahead of Wednesday polls in a bid to retain his seat as the leader of the central African country. Just like all the other candidates, Tshisekedi has made similar…

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi has won the country's presidential election with 89.6% of the vote, securing himself a new six-year term, the National Elections Authority announced on Monday. The head of the Authority, Hazem…

British lawmakers voted to support the government’s plan to send some asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda, keeping alive a policy that has angered human rights groups and cost the U.K. at least $300 million, without a single flight…