President-elect of Cameroon, Paul Biya, will take his oath of office on November 6, 2018, local media portals have reported. Earlier reports including by state-run CRTV said the investiture was slated for Friday, November 2,…
Georgia must change its procedures to make it easier for some people flagged under the state’s restrictive “exact match” law to vote, a federal judge ruled Friday, dealing a blow to Republican gubernatorial candidate and…
Nigeria’s opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) has engaged the services of top United States firm and lobbyist, Brian Ballard, to work with it for the successful emergence of its candidate, Atiku Abubakar. The…
YAOUNDE, CAMEROON — Candidates for Cameroon’s October 7th presidential election have largely avoided traveling to the restive English-speaking regions where armed separatists have vowed the vote will not take place. But all of them are…
NAIROBI — Tanzania’s main opposition party on Wednesday said it would boycott the electoral process until further notice after by-elections that it said had been wrecked by “militarization” by the authorities. Freeman Mbowe, president of…
The President of the Senate Dr Bukola Saraki has officially declared to run for President in the 2019 General Elections. Saraki made the declaration on Thursday, while meeting with young Nigerians who want to run…
ATLANTA (AP) — Election officials in a majority black Georgia county voted Friday to scrap a widely condemned proposal to eliminate most of their polling places. Concern about the proposal to close seven of nine…
HARARE — Zimbabwean opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has rejected official results showing he lost Monday’s presidential election to incumbent Emmerson Mnangagwa. Chamisa said Friday he would pursue all available routes, including protests, to reclaim what…
HARARE, ZIMBABWE — Emmerson Mnangagwa has won Zimbabwe’s presidential election in a poll marred by violence and charges of fraud. The election commission gives Mnangagwa 50.8 percent of the vote, barely ahead of opposition leader…
HARARE — Zimbabweans are awaiting the results of a pivotal election that could, many hope, turn around their nation’s shattered economy and tarnished reputation after 38 years of iron-fisted rule under former leader Robert Mugabe….