Election

The UN delegation led by Mohamed Ibn Chambas continues its peace mission ahead of the April 11 presidential election in Benin. The Special Representative of the Secretary General Antonio Guterres arrived in Cotonou Sunday in a tensed pre-election context. The…

The twelve candidates in Ghana’s Presidential election have successfully balloted for their positions on the December 7 ballot sheet. On Tuesday evening, representatives from the governing New Patriotic Party, the largest opposition political party, the National Democratic Congress and other…

Liberia's Supreme Court over the weekend ordered a temporary halt to preparations for the December 8, midterm senatorial elections.  The decision comes after Justice in Chamber, Sie-A-Nyene Youh issued a Writ of Mandamus on behalf of an aspirant of the…

Opposition leaders and supporters in Ivory Coast gathered at a stadium in Abidjan over the weekend to reject a third mandate of Alassane Ouattara, the current president of the country who is running for another term in office. The opposition…

The Centre for Democracy and Development, one of the Election monitoring groups in the recently concluded governorship election in Ondo State, South West Nigeria, has given a pass mark to the Independent National Electoral Commission and the security agencies for…

A member of parliament in Ghana has given the Electoral Commission a 7-day ultimatum to publish the provisional register of voters for the upcoming general elections on its website. Mr Ernest Henry Norgbey who is Member of Parliament (MP) for…

In Burkina Faso, the Independent National Election Commission (CENI) closed last Friday the reception of candidacy files for the upcoming presidential election.  The commission received 23 candidacies, among them, files deemed incomplete for lack of sponsorship, non-payment of the deposit…

Ghana’s Electoral Commission (EC) has indicated that there was the duplication of some voter ID numbers during the registration process on October 1. The EC said in a statement that its attention had been drawn to the problem that a…