Tag: election

Namibia’s ruling party names Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah as sole candidate for presidential elections

March 14, 2023

Namibia's President Hage Geingob has named Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah as the sole candidate for the ruling Swapo party in next year's elections. The nomination came Saturday ... Read More

Tanzania opposition figure comes back home after years in exile

March 2, 2023

Tanzanian opposition politician Godbless Lema has returned home after two years in exile in Canada over threats to his life following a disputed election. A ... Read More

Nigeria election: first results trickling in, Obi wins key Lagos state

February 27, 2023

Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has started announcing state-by-state results from Saturday's presidential election but the slow process of uploading the results to INEC’s ... Read More

Tunisia: Low turnout at 11.3 per cent in elections second round

January 30, 2023

11.3 per cent of voters casted their ballot papers during the second round of Sunday elections, Tunisia’s independent elections body, ISIE announced after the poll ... Read More

Equatorial Guinea launches purge against illegal migrants “ahead of November 20 elections”

November 2, 2022

Equatorial Guinea authorities have launched a nationwide campaign to expel illegal migrants ahead of November 20 general elections, Anadolu news agency has learned. “In accordance ... Read More

Kenya’s policy reversal: from Ruto’s anti-China campaign to more pragmatic stance

September 30, 2022

While Kenya’s newly elected President William Ruto, ran his election campaign on an anti-China platform, the language of his new administration now stands in a ... Read More

Libya accuses unnamed international forces for working against elections

July 26, 2022

Libya’s envoy to the UN, Taher El-Sonni, has blamed several unidentified international forces for plotting against elections in North African country adding that the stability ... Read More

Libya: Stephanie Williams met with two rivals for PM disputed seat

February 15, 2022

The international community at Libya's bedside. The country has two Prime ministers. Abdelhamid Dbeibah, who has been in office for a year, and the former ... Read More

Libya’s PM accuses HoR speaker of sowing division amid plans to replace him

February 1, 2022

Libya’s Premier Abdulhamid Dbeibah Monday told Al Jazeera network that the Speaker of the House of Representative (HoR) is trying to bring back division and ... Read More

Guinean junta unveils composition of National Transitional Council

January 25, 2022

Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, head of Guinea's ruling junta, has named the 81 members of the National Transitional Council (CNT), the transitional legislative body that will ... Read More