Ghana’s former president Nana Akufo-Addo has been appointed to lead the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Electoral Observation Mission for Benin’s upcoming presidential election, scheduled for April 12. The vote will determine the successor to incumbent Patrice Talon, who is constitutionally barred from seeking a third term. Analysts…
Djibouti’s long-serving President Ismail Omar Guelleh, who has governed the Horn of Africa nation for nearly 30 years, is set to run for a sixth term in the upcoming presidential election on April 10, facing only one minor challenger, according to an official decree published Wednesday. The 78-year-old incumbent secured…
Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo – Voters in the Republic of the Congo are set to head to the polls on Sunday in a presidential election widely expected to extend the rule of longtime leader Denis Sassou Nguesso. Sassou Nguesso, 82, has dominated the country’s political landscape for decades, having…
Amnesty International has called on Ivory Coast authorities to release dozens of individuals arrested during protests connected to the country’s October presidential election. The rights group argues that many of those detained were not directly involved in the demonstrations but were simply present in areas where unrest occurred. Disputed Election…
Guinea’s junta leader General Mamadi Doumbouya was officially sworn in as president on Saturday, capping a decisive win in December’s presidential election. The inauguration took place at a newly constructed 55,000-seat stadium on the outskirts of Conakry, with African leaders and representatives from the African Union and ECOWAS in attendance.…
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni hailed his election victory on Sunday as a demonstration of his party’s enduring dominance, following official results that awarded him a seventh term in office. Museveni, who has governed the East African nation for four decades, secured 71.6 percent of the vote, while opposition leader Bobi…
Guinea-Bissau faces political uncertainty as both leading presidential candidates have declared victory ahead of the official election results. Fernando Dias, widely regarded as the main challenger to incumbent President Umaro Sissoco Embalo, was the first to announce his win. Embalo’s camp quickly countered, asserting that their candidate secured over 50%…
Political tension is rising in Ivory Coast just days before Saturday’s presidential election, following the fatal shooting of a gendarme on patrol in the country’s south. Authorities have not yet identified the attackers, but the incident occurred in a region known as an opposition stronghold, which has seen a wave…
Former Senior Presidential Advisor Moses Kuria has forecast that Kenya’s 2027 General Election will mark a turning point in the country’s political history, predicting that the presidency will, for the first time, be decided in a runoff. In a statement posted on X on Sunday, September 28, 2025, Kuria argued…