THE House of Representatives was in a rowdy session on Tuesday as lawmakers disagreed over a motion seeking to rescind…
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THE Senate has defended its decision to make the electronic transmission of election results discretionary rather than mandatory in the…
NIGERIANS love a good buzzword. We grab onto one, hold it tight, and convince ourselves that once we crack that…
NIGERIAN elections never end. But the cycle gets into overdrive roughly one year before a fresh general election. This is…
A DEMOCRACY rarely collapses in a single dramatic moment. More often, it is slowly redesigned clause by clause until citizens…
OUR habit of amending our electoral laws almost every election cycle deserves serious scrutiny. The popular justification, continuous improvement, sounds…
MILITARY authorities in coup-prone Guinea-Bissau have scheduled presidential and legislative elections for 6 December, despite calls for a swifter transition…
UGANDA said Sunday it would maintain a ban on social media platforms, while lifting a nationwide internet block hours after…
UGANDAN opposition leader Bobi Wine said Saturday that he had escaped a police raid on his home and was in…
UGANDAN President Yoweri Museveni won a seventh term in office on Saturday after an election marred by violence and an…
UGANDAN opposition leader Bobi Wine was forcibly taken away in an army helicopter from his home on Friday, his party…
VOTES are being counted in parts of Uganda amid an internet shutdown and opposition accusations of rigging in presidential and…
UGANDA’s opposition leader told AFP on Wednesday that he would call for protests if President Yoweri Museveni rigs this week’s…
UGANDAN authorities have imposed a nationwide internet blackout days before presidential elections in which President Yoweri Museveni is expected to…
UGANDANS under the age of 40 – and that is more than three-quarters of the population – have only known…
ONE month after an attempted coup shook Benin, the west African country will hold parliamentary and local elections Sunday, set…
THE Central African Republic has re-elected President Faustin-Archange Touadera, according to provisional results released by the electoral authority on Tuesday.…
UGANDA’s authorities have denied reports that they are planning to cut access to the internet during next week’s election. The…
GUINEA’s Supreme Court on Sunday validated an overwhelming presidential election victory for junta chief Mamady Doumbouya, crediting him with 86.72%…
GUINEA’s junta chief Gen Mamady Doumbouya has won the presidential election by a landslide, getting 86.7% of the vote, according…