President of Guinea-Bissau, Umaro Cissoko Embalo, declared on Thursday that he would not seek reelection in the forthcoming presidential election in November. The 51-year-old Embalo...
To expedite the electoral procedures for the September 2025 general elections in Malawi, the Electoral Commission (Mec) has implemented Election Management Devices (EMDs). Sangwani Mwafulirwa, the...
A Tunisian rapper, Karim Gharbi, popularly known as K2Rhym, has been sentenced to four years in prison in absentia on allegations of buying voter signatures to...
The Zambian government has called on the European Union (EU) to help in strengthening democratic initiatives in the country as it prepares for general elections in...
Zambian coalition, the United Kwacha Alliance (UKA), has challenged President Hakainde Hichilema to test his popularity by conducting presidential elections earlier this year. The coalition, which...
The Nigerian government, in collaboration with the Nigerian Bar Association, has commenced legal proceedings against a number of electoral body—INEC— employees and political party officials who...
Amid the controversies surrounding former Zambian President, Edgar Lungu, related to petitions filed against his contesting in next year’s presidential election, the country’s Attorney-General, Mulilo Kabesha,...
The immediate past Chairman of Nigeria’s electoral body, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, has called for the unbundling of the electoral body,...
Madagascar’s President, Andry Rajoelina, will seek re-election on Thursday despite protests about his alleged ineligibility championed by opposition groups. The Electoral Body confirmed on Monday that...
On Tuesday, candidates in the next presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo called for urgent measures to prevent malpractices in the upcoming voting exercise. Every...