Africa International Profile

Burkina Faso: Former Prime Minister Kabore wins outright victory

The leader of the People’s Movement for Progress (MPP) and former Premier under deposed Blaise Campaore, Roch Marc Christian Kabore, was announced winner of the first free and fair presidential elections after decades of dictatorship and a troubled transitional period. Provisional results published by the national electoral commission give 53.49 % of the votes to […]

Africa Features International

Togo-Elections: Early Results Suggest the Winner is… Gnassingbé

The early results of the presidential elections in Togo held on Saturday show that incumbent President Faure Gnassingbe is poised to win with a comfortable majority. The National Independent Electoral Commission disclosed this Monday that, according to the partial official results, Faure Gnassingbe, leader of the ruling Union for the Republic Party, is in the […]