Tag Archives: elections

As Gambians go to the polls, six opposition parties are boycotting the...

April 3, 2013 no comments

BANJUL , Saikou Jammeh (IPS) - When Gambians go to the polls for the country’s local government elections on Thursday Apr. 4, they will have fewer candidates to choose from as six of the country’s se...

Extracts of the CORD petition – What Raila Odinga is asking Keny...

March 16, 2013 1 comment

What the Petitioner (Hon. RailaOdinga)is asking the court to do: 1. Set aside the results of the Presidential election as announced by IEBC on 9March 2013, and the declaration of Uhuru Kenyatta as Pr...

The United States should accept that the Kenyan people have spoken ...

March 9, 2013 no comments

The United States government of president Barack Obama, through his Secretary of State, have failed miserably to embrace the democratic choice of the people of Kenya. Prior to the Kenyan elections, t...

Kenya prepares for a new era as Uhuru Kenyatta wins vote count in hist...

March 9, 2013 no comments

It appears that Uhuru Kenyatta have won the Kenyan presidential election according to  indications provided by the provisional results of votes counted so far counted. With all votes tallied, Kenyatt...

UN Secretary-General appeals to the Kenyans to continue to maintain ca...

March 6, 2013 no comments

NEW YORK, March 6, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ – “As you know, I spoke to President [Mwai] Kibaki last week. I have been encouraged thus far by the largely peaceful and orderly process, de...

Krzysztof Lisek, head of EP election observation delegation to Kenya: ...

March 6, 2013 no comments

NAIROBI, Kenya, March 6, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ – Krzysztof Lisek (EPP, PL), head of European Parliament’s election observation delegation to Kenya, said on Wednesday in Nairobi that ...

No polling centers in Malawi Army camps and Airports

January 23, 2013 1 comment

The Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has quashed suggestions by certain quarters that the Commission open centres at some Army camps to ease mobility of soldiers, their families and the civilians wh...

Uhuru Kenyatta says: I can defend myself at the ICC and be Kenyan pres...

January 19, 2013 no comments

Kenyan presidential candidate and ICC defendant Uhuru Kenyatta has told Al Jazeera that he will continue to appear before the court in the Hague even if he is elected president in the upcoming vote. ...

“Do not point an accusing finger on us!” IEBC maintains in Kenya

December 15, 2012 no comments

With just five days remaining before the expiry of the time set for voter registration, IEBC Chairman Isaack Hassan has maintained that once the deadline elapses, the Independent Electoral and Bounda...

EU-EOM discusses recommendations for future elections in Sierra Leone ...

December 11, 2012 no comments

Freetown, 10 December 2012 The European Union Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) to Sierra Leone has organised a workshop with local interlocutors and stakeholders to fine-tune the mission’s recom...

As Malawi prepares for first tripartite elections in 2014 governing bo...

December 10, 2012 no comments

As Malawians gear up for the first ever tripartite elections in 2014, the country’s elections governing body has ruled out the possibility of increasing  constituencies as required, citing time and l...

Sierra Leone opposition SLPP leader refuses to accept the will of the ...

November 24, 2012 1 comment

It is now apparent that Julius Maada Bio’s intentions to run for the highest office of the land were not for the national interest or well-being of all Sierra Leoneans. After the elections, even Pres...

No credible opposition – As the Sierra Leone Peoples Party becom...

November 20, 2012 3 comments

Opposition parties in any democracy are meant to hold the government in power to account, and work in the interest of the people to ensure the government does not abuse its power in office. But in th...

The thug who wants to be president – Sierra Leone is not prepare...

November 20, 2012 no comments

When a political party presents a mass-murderer and human rights abuser as its candidate for president in an election, it shows it has no respect for the electorate, and that it has run out of all op...

EU-EOM Observer Mission report on Sierra Leone’s election may be...

November 19, 2012 no comments

In a press release issued by the EU-EOM Observer mission in Sierra Leone, tasked with monitoring the country’s recent elections, the Chief Observer of the mission, Richard Howitt, was quoted as...

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon congratulates Sierra Leon...

November 18, 2012 1 comment

The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, has on Sunday, in a statement, congratulated the West African state of Sierra Leone for what he described as “the peaceful and larg...