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Following a relatively successful first round of Presidential elections, two rival candidates – incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo and rival Alassane Ouatarra – were pitted against each other...
Alpha Condé has been declared the winner of the November 7th runoff election contested between himself and rival Cellou Dalein Diallo. Both candidates were neck and neck throughout the counting...
On November 28, 2010, Egypt will embark on Parliamentary elections to decide the make-up of the country’s legislative capacity. The build-up to the election has been shrouded in controversy, with...
Despite a relatively peaceful October 31 election, the aftermath of the vote saw members of the opposition accuse the State of doctoring the results in favour of the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi...
The Côte d'Ivoire, after many postponements of a Presidential election, will finally head to the polls on October 31, 2010, to vote in a new President. The date has been set by the Electoral...
Boasting relative political stability, the Republic of Tanzania will conduct general elections on October 31, 2010. Contemporary Tanzanian politics is characterised by one-party rule under the...
With no candidate securing an outright majority in the June 27 election, the Guinean electoral code dictates that the election must enter into a second runoff round, where the two candidates with...
The second Presidential election since the ending of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, showed a resounding win for incumbent President Paul Kagame of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). Preliminary...
Similarly to the local elections held a month before the Presidential poll, the opposition to incumbent Pierre Nkurunziza boycotted the elections, citing fraud and intimidation by the ruling party....
Rwanda enters its second Presidential election since the brutal genocide that led to the extermination of some 800 000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus. The election is scheduled for August 9, 2010. Since...
The Presidential poll, on June 26, 2010, in Somaliland, saw the incumbent, Dahir Rayale Kahin of the Unity of Democrats Party, deposed by his longtime rival, Ahmed Mohamed Mohamud Silanyo of the...
With a turbulent and unstable past characterised by ethnic feuds and military coups, Burundi looks to its upcoming Presidential and Parliamentary election to solidify its infant and fragile...
Official results from Ethiopia's latest Parliamentary election released on June 21, 2010, indicate that the ruling party, the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front and it's allies, won...
Rwandan general, Kayumba Nyamwasa was shot in the stomach at the gate of his home in Johannesburg last Saturday in what is believed, by his family and close friends, to be an assassination attempt...
Situated in the unstable West African region, Guinea is bordered by Sierra Leone, Liberia and the Côte d‘Ivoire. With recent spurts of violence, particularly the brutal massacre of unarmed...