Tag: elections
Mozambique’s last stand for democracy?
When Southern African Development Community (SADC) ministers and heads of state meet from 15-20 November in Harare, the crisis in Mozambique should top their...
Latest elections widen Mozambique’s democratic deficit
On 9 October, Mozambique held its seventh general election since 1994, cementing its status as an electoral democracy. Multiparty polls have taken place over...
Modise and Cele not returning to JCPS cluster
With a GNU (Government of National Unity) on the horizon for democratic South Africa’s seventh administration, new faces are expected among public arena representatives,...
SANDF deployment ensured safe and secure elections
With South Africa’s national and provincial elections for a seventh democratic administration over and declared free and fair, the military component of NatJOINTS (National...
Private Security Industry proves strong force multiplier in E2, says Masemola
The partnership between the South African Police Service and private security companies has been applauded for ensuring a safe election. Ahead of the election,...
SANDF on alert post elections
The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) remains on alert in the wake of the national elections, with vehicles being made ready for an...
2 828 SANDF members deployed for the elections
A total of 2 828 South African National Defence Force (SANDF) members are being deployed for the maintenance and preservation of law and order...
ActionSA wants an SANDF that can respond to any threat to...
Herman Mashaba’s ActionSA party claims that it will, if elected, establish a well-equipped, well-resourced, and professional South African National Defence Force (SANDF) that is...
National security, including border security, high priority for PAC
The Pan African Congress of Azania (PAC), under the leadership of Mzwanele Nyhontso, gives voters more information on border and national security in its...
Defence a big focus for UDM
On defence, United Democratic Movement (UDM) leader Bantu Holomisa states in the party manifesto “it is unlikely that we will see conventional war that...
IFP wants to double defence budget – manifesto
The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), in its elections manifesto, recognises the importance of defence and would like to more than double the defence budget...
Freedom Front Plus wants to restore safety and security and rebuild...
Pieter Groenewald’s Freedom Front Plus (FF+) elections manifesto, under the sub-heading “rebuild the defence force”, starts by noting the effectiveness of a defence force...
Conscription and illegal immigration at the core of Patriotic Alliance defence...
Gayton McKenzie’s Patriotic Alliance (PA) takes a tough stance on illegal immigration, the death penalty, and conscription in its party manifesto.
The 14 000 plus...
Comprehensive plan for the SANDF in EFF manifesto
Julius Malema’s Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) elections manifesto runs to a lengthy 260 pages with plans of action for, among others, land; jobs; energy,...
Democratic Alliance elections manifesto focuses on crime rather than defence
The Democratic Alliance (DA), as the official opposition in the just ended sixth administration, has had a lot to say about the state of...
Slim focus on defence and security in ANC’s elections manifesto
The ruling African National Congress (ANC) elections manifesto runs to 58 pages, but there is little mention of defence and security.
The only mentions of...
One political hit every two weeks since start of 2024, new...
In the first four months of 2024 alone, 10 politically motivated assassinations were recorded in SA.
In its latest report, titled The Politics of Murder,...
Manifesto analysis: Assessing political parties’ stance on defence and national security
defenceWeb recently took time to look at the MK Party manifesto in terms of defence and security. I was wondering how the rest of...
South Africa’s polls unlikely to result in widespread public violence
South Africa’s 29 May national and provincial elections will be the hardest fought since the birth of the country’s democracy in 1994. Surveys show...
Elections 2024: More than 350 private security companies enlisted to assist...
More than 350 private security companies across South Africa will pool their resources to assist police in hotspot areas, leading to the national general...
Security plan in place for upcoming elections – JCPS Cluster
With just 30 days left until South Africans head to the polls, government has assured citizens that the seventh National and Provincial Elections will...
South Sudan: some spoilers want peace to fail, putting 2024 elections...
South Sudan is expected to hold its first general election in December 2024. It became an independent state in 2011.
The long overdue election is...
Election violence in Nigeria’s south east is threatening to derail voting...
Violence is a perennial feature of elections in Nigeria. It happens across the three stages of the electoral cycle – before, on and after...
Elections, water, cyber shutdowns, peacekeeping pose risks in 2022
As the new year arrives, security experts are closely watching certain conflict hot spots and tracking long-term trends that threaten to boil over. Recurring...
World powers press for Libya elections but disputes remain
World powers will push for sanctions against anyone who disrupts Libya's electoral process and political transition, they said in Paris on Friday, though big...
Guinea junta bars its members from running in next elections
Guinea's junta said on Monday its members are barred from standing in the next national or local elections, and that it will agree on...
UN-backed Libya talks fail to reach consensus on elections
UN-sponsored talks aimed at paving the way for elections in Libya in late December failed to find common ground, the deputy of the United...
Ethiopia prepares for tense, long-delayed elections
Ethiopia is preparing for national and regional parliamentary elections on Monday that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has said will be the country's first free...
Malians to vote next February
Mali will hold legislative and presidential elections on February 27 next year to restore a democratic government after last year's military coup, the transitional...
ISS: A third election without main opposition parties in Benin
Political exclusion ahead of the vote is a strategy by incumbents in West Africa to guarantee re-election.
On 11 April, Benin will hold its seventh...
Kenyan court says police to blame for death of girl after...
A Kenyan inquest has ruled that police are to blame for the death of a 9-year-old girl during violence after the 2017 elections, saying...
Central African Republic votes amid tight security after December violence
Almost all polling stations in Central African Republic were able to open for a second round of parliamentary elections on Sunday, the electoral body...
Central African Republic braces for tense elections amid conflict
Central African Republic will vote in a second round of parliamentary elections on Sunday under high security after a surge in rebel violence surrounding...
Deadly protests rock Niger over contested election result
Supporters of the losing presidential candidate in Niger set several buildings on fire, burnt tyres and threw rocks at the police on Thursday, as...
ISS: CAR elections expose the depth of the country’s crisis
Is more robust engagement needed to neutralise armed groups unwilling to give peace a chance?
On 27 December 2020, citizens of the Central African Republic...
ISS: Elections and instability as Africa enters 2021
With ten presidential elections and persistent governance problems, the continent faces another trying year.
No fewer than ten presidential elections are planned for 2021 –...
ISS: Niger’s elections are unlikely to break the political deadlock
As the polls approach, deep divisions focus more on candidates’ personal backgrounds than Niger’s security and development challenges.
On 13 and 27 December, some 7.4 million Nigeriens...
Ivory Coast president scores landslide win, opposition cries foul
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara has provisionally won a third term in office with 94.27% of the vote, the electoral commission announced early on...
Tanzania president Magufuli seeks second term as polls open
Tanzanians headed to the polls on Wednesday for presidential and parliamentary elections that President John Magufuli hopes will hand him another five-year term despite...
Guinea President Conde wins re-election in landslide: preliminary results
Guinea’s President Alpha Conde has won a landslide re-election victory, preliminary results showed on Thursday, giving him a third term in office after a...
Ex-Burundi president gets prison term for 1993 killing of victorious election...
Burundi’s top court has sentenced a former president to life in prison for the 1993 murder of another president who had defeated him in...
ISS: Tanzania elections set to widen Africa’s democratic deficit
With the 28 October election around the corner, Tanzania’s opposition has mounted a spirited campaign despite numerous impediments and attempts to discredit them. Their...
Tanzania opposition leader says facing repression as elections near
Three weeks before elections, the Tanzanian government is getting scared and will do all in its power to stop the opposition, according to Tundu...
Tigray stages elections in defiance of PM Abiy
Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region on Wednesday went ahead with regional elections in an act of defiance against Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who called the...
Tanzanian president Magufuli to face 14 challengers in October elections
Tanzanian president John Magufuli will face 14 challengers in elections scheduled for this October, the elections board announced on Wednesday, with analysts saying a...
Uganda cracks down on media ahead of elections in 2021, watchdog...
Uganda’s security forces are cracking down on authors and journalists who challenge the 34-year-old rule of President Yoweri Museveni ahead of elections next year,...
Burundi’s ruling party wins presidential election
Burundi’s ruling party candidate, retired general Evariste Ndayishimiye, has won the presidential election with 69% of votes cast, the electoral commission said on Monday,...
ISS: Could elections lead to another political crisis in Burundi?
Burundi’s main opposition candidate in this week’s elections, Agathon Rwasa, exudes confidence. His rallies are well attended despite violence meted out against his party...
ISS: Malawi’s court gives electoral justice in Africa a much-needed boost
Will this week’s Malawi Constitutional Court ruling to annul last year’s presidential election set a precedent for more bravely independent judicial rulings on other...
ISS: Taking social media at (Face)book value in Africa
Last week Facebook revealed that it had disabled hundreds of fake accounts that had sought to meddle with the electoral processes of eight African...
