Guinea’s main opposition party, Union of Democratic Forces (UDF), has lodged an appeal at the constitutional court to overturn the results of last month’s presidential election.…
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President Alassane Ouattara of Cote d’Ivoire has been re-elected for a third term with more than 94.27 per cent of votes, the country’s electoral commission said…
No fewer than nine Nigerian Americans are on the ballot in Tuesday’s general elections in the United States. Running mostly on the platform of the Democratic…
No fewer than five people have died in clashes on Ivory Coast’s election day, officials in the West African country said on Sunday. According to reports,…
Prominent politician and former presidential candidate of the National Action Council (NAC) in the 2019 Nigeria general elections, Olapade Agoro, has died. He died at the…
Ivory Coast citizens went to the polls on Saturday even as some opposition supporters tried to disrupt the vote, heeding a call from two rival candidates…
Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, has put a phone with his Burkina Faso’s counterpart, Marc Christian Kabore, to commiserate with him and the nation following the demise…
The US has expressed concern over “inconsistencies” in preliminary results of Guinea’s presidential election. In a statement, the US embassy spoke of a “lack of transparency…
Senegalese President Macky Sall has dissolved his 32-strong government team with immediate effect. Sall signed a decree to terminate the functions of all ministers and state…
Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio has repealed The Criminal and Seditious Libel Law, a 55-year-old libel law that has been used by successive governments to…