Members of the government in the West African State of Guinea have announced that the country will hold a presidential election on June 27. It will be the first since a military coup that brought Dadis Camara into power in December of last year.
The proposed date was set last month by the main electoral commission and [...]

According to reports coming out of Togo, President Faure Gnassingbe the incumbent in the country’s Presidential election is said to have won the elections by a comfortable margin.  The election commission said Faure Gnassingbe, had beaten opposition challenger Jean-Pierre Fabre. He won 1.2 million votes of two million cast, according to officials, considerably more than [...]

The main opposition party candidate in the West African State of Togo, along with the incumbent President, have both claimed victory in an election ahead of results due to be announced on Saturday. This decision may set the stage for protests in a country whose 2005 elections vote was marred by violence as well. The [...]

Sudan’s President Omar El Bashir has been nominated to vie for the presidential elections in April, an election that will be the first ever democratic ballot in Africa’s largest country Sudan. A statement from the Sudan Embassy in Nairobi said: “The Head of the National Authority for Election Campaign Abdul Rahman Sowar Al-Dahab said that [...]

Sudanese President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir bowed out as commander-in-chief of the army ahead of Sudan’s first multi-party elections in 24 years, officials reported on Monday. According to the state owned news agency, SUNA, the president issued a statement on his desire to retire as the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. Close observers view this [...]

Tanzania’s President Jakaya Kikwete has vehemently called for unity ahead of the national general elections later this year. In addition, he thanked the Tanzanians for showing patriotism, wisdom and maturity despite taints by leaders who preach division. “Don’t waste a minute listening to those who plan ill for the country by dividing us on racial, [...]

Returns from last week’s elections in Namibia indicate that about one-third of the votes counted show the ruling South West Africa People’s Party heading for a landslide victory with three-fourths of the vote. A new party, the Rally for Democracy and Progress, seems to be the likely opposition party with about 9 percent. The ruling [...]

The delay in the publication of the provisional voters list in Ivory Coast may cause elections planned for November 29 to be postponed. There are fears that scrambling to make the November deadline will result in a flawed vote. The elections which have been planned since 2005 have been postponed several times as attempts are [...]

The current president of Mozambique Armando Guebuza is set to be re-elcted for a second time in an election on Thursday that will see the ruling party clinch an overwhelming victory at the polls. Results coming out of the country show Guebuza taking a commanding lead over his longtime rival and opposition leader Afonso Dhlakama. [...]

What happened in Kenya a few years back could best be described as a demonstration of the selfishness of some African politicians who are always bent on exploiting a given situation in an effort to satisfy their political aims. As was in Zimbabwe where an opposition Movement For Democratic Change party won an election [...]

    The South African Football Association (Safa) Saturday named Kirsten Nematandani president after two senior 2010 World Cup officials withdrew at the last minute. The …