The Presidential election is scheduled to be held in Madagascar on 7 November and 19 December 2018 to elect the President. The President of Madagascar is elected using the two-round system; if no candidate receives a majority of the vote […]
The previous presidential elections on 9 October 2011 saw incumbent president Paul Biya elected for another seven-year term following a 2008 constitutional amendment that removed term limits, allowing Biya to run again. Going into the 2018 elections Cameroon has experienced […]
General elections are scheduled to be held in Zimbabwe in 2018 to elect the President and members of both houses of Parliament. According to the written Zimbabwean Constitution, the elections must be held before the official expiry date of the current […]
The President of Mali is elected using the two-round system. Landlocked Mali will hold regional, presidential and national elections in various stages, beginning in April and ending in November. In late Dec. 2017, prime minister Abdoulaye Idrissa Maiga resigned […]
Mali delayed regional elections until April 2018 in order to address dissatisfaction with the timing from powerful armed groups, the government said. Attention has also shifted to the July 2018 presidential election. In parts of […]
Presidential elections will be held in Egypt between 26 and 28 March 2018. On 19 January, incumbent President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi formally announced he would run for a second and final term. A runoff, if necessary, will take place 19 April to […]
General elections will be held in Sierra Leone on 7 March 2018 to elect the President, Parliament and local councils. Incumbent President Ernest Bai Koroma is not running for another term, as he is constitutionally ineligible, having served the maximum ten […]
On 7 March 2017, Libya’s Tobruk-based House of Representatives, called for general elections to be held, following the collapse of a UN-brokered peace accord with the rival Tripoli-based government. Although an exact date for the elections has not […]
Yesterday, during an enforced national media blackout, Raila Odinga was inaugurated as the ‘People’s President’ at a ceremony in Uhuru Park, Nairobi, Kenya. Odinga and his National Super Alliance (NASA) party successfully challenged the integrity […]
International football star turned President of Liberia, George Weah, was inaugurated yesterday at the Samuel Doe football stadium. People queued for miles, some dancing, to watch their national hero be sworn in. Weah said “I […]
