Tag: election

Malawi will go to the polls on 23 June, a week earlier than initially ordered by the courts, which annulled President Peter Mutharika’s narrow...

Burundian police detained more than 200 opposition electoral observers during this week’s election, the spokesman for the main opposition National Freedom Council (CNL) told...

Ethiopia’s Tigray region plans to hold elections, its main party said, setting it on a collision course with the federal government and testing the...

Ethiopia postponed parliamentary elections scheduled for August due to the coronavirus outbreak, the electoral board said in, a move endorsed by key opposition parties. The...

Mali held a long-delayed parliamentary election on Sunday despite an insurgency in the central and northern regions, concerns about coronavirus and the recent kidnapping...

Former prime minister and ex-army general Umaro Cissoko Embalo won Guinea-Bissau’s presidential vote, the electoral commission said while his opponent complained of fraud and...

Thousands took to the streets in Algiers and other cities on Thursday chanting “No vote! We want freedom!” as Algerian authorities held a presidential...

A large crowd of protesters marched through central Algiers to demand Thursday’s presidential election be cancelled, chanting they would not vote in a poll...

An Algerian court jailed two former prime ministers for corruption two days before a presidential election which protesters want cancelled. Ahmed Ouyahia, a four...

Thousands of Algerians took to the streets on Friday, in a show of strength for their final weekly protest ahead of a presidential election...