Browsing: West Africa Politics

Two Liberians whose families escaped civil war in the 1990s and sought refuge in the US have been elected to office in the states of Colorado…

Burkina Faso’s President Roch Kaboré has launched his re-election campaign and promised to deal with the terrorist threat facing the country. Kabore, a member of the…

Nigeria’s former President Olusegun Obasanjo has given reasons why an ex-governor of Oyo State, Rashidi Ladoja, was impeached in 2006. Obasanjo, 83, said Ladoja was impeached…

Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will begin another round of voter registration in the first quarter of 2021, its chairman said on Wednesday. INEC Chairman,…

Nigeria’s main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has expressed concern over fresh plans by the Federal Government to secure an additional $1.2 billion loan…

A Nigerian-American, Oye Owolewa, has won election into the United States’ congress. Owolewa was elected as a shadow member of the United States House of Representatives…

Ghana will deploy over 62,000 security personnel for its presidential election holding in December, 2020. The West African country’s Inspector-General of Police, James Oppong-Boanuh, on Wednesday,…

A Nigerian, Ms Esther Agbaje, has been elected into the Minnesota House of Representatives in Tuesday’s U.S. general elections. She will represent District 59B in the…

An October 25 prayer walk by supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump in Onitsha, Anambra, has caught his attention. On Tuesday, Trump tweeted an Election Day…

Pascal Affi N’Guessan, the leader of Ivorian Popular Front (IPF), one of the opposition parties in Ivory Coast, has announced a transition government in the West…