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Côte d’Ivoire’s upcoming presidential election has taken a dramatic turn, as the Constitutional Council barred two major opposition figures — former President Laurent Gbagbo and ex-Credit Suisse CEO Tidjane Thiam — from contesting the 25 October vote. The council cited both men’s removal from the electoral roll: Gbagbo, due to a past criminal conviction, and […]
Gabon will hold its first presidential election on Saturday (12 April) since the August 2023 military coup that ended over five decades of Bongo family rule. Interim president and coup leader Brice Oligui Nguema, who has styled himself as an anti-corruption reformer, is widely expected to win. Nguema, a former Republican Guard chief and cousin […]
Guinea’s ruling military junta has announced plans to hold a constitutional referendum followed by presidential and legislative elections before the end of 2025, signaling a potential return to civilian rule after four years of military governance. Prime minister Amadou Oury Bah confirmed the timeline, emphasizing that constitutional order would be restored, though no specific dates […]
Gabon will hold its presidential elections on April 12, the first since the army took power in the country, the council of ministers announced. Gabon’s long-ruling President Ali Bongo was deposed in August, 2023, in a coup led by head of the presidential guard Brice Oligui Nguema, who took Gabon’s interim presidency. The coup was […]
Presidential candidate Zouheir Maghzaoui has criticized the Independent High Electoral Body for its “silence” regarding irregularities in the electoral process. At a press conference in Tunis on Wednesday, August 28, Maghzaoui, Secretary General of the “Echaab” Movement, claimed that the electoral process has been compromised by various issues, including administrative bias and unfair treatment by […]
On August 22, the Tunisian judiciary ordered the release of opposition politician Safi Saïd. Saïd, a former candidate in the 2014 and 2019 presidential elections who withdrew from this year’s race, had been arrested on August 20 for “illegally crossing the border into Algeria.” The 70-year-old writer and critic of the current Tunisian president was […]
Tunisia’s authoritarian leader kais Saied is paving the way for his re-election by sending his rivals to jail under bogus charges. The manipulation of the judiciary is the most recent episode in a process of power consolidation by Saied who has destroyed the country’s checks and balances, gearing Tunisia to its pre-Arab Spring authoritarianism. On […]
Mahamat Idriss Deby, Chad interim president- who took power in 2021- won Chad’s presidential elections with 61.3% of the vote, the election committee said. Provisional results showed his rival Prime Minister Masra, won 18.53%, in a vote that marks the first return among military-ruled Sahel states to constitutional order via the ballot box. General Deby […]
As Chadians head to the polls on Monday (6 May) to conclude a three-year political transition, the country’s transitional leader, General Mahamat Idriss Déby, is widely expected to win the presidential race easily, especially after the junta had violently repressed much of the opposition. Idriss Deby seized power three years ago succeeding his father, Idriss […]
The Algerian presidency said presidential elections will be held on September 7, the second vote after the country’s 2019 pro-democracy Hirak that failed to remove the military junta. Abdelmedjid Tebboune is expected to run for a second term. Though his candidacy has not been announced yet. The election will take place at a context of […]