Tag: Comoros

Africa This Week: October 14, 2024

Africa Elections Weekly News Review: October 14, 2024 - 21votes

October 14, 2024 A weekly review of news and analysis of elections in Africa, usually posted on Mondays and occasionally updated throughout the week. A dhow – a type of traditional trading vessel – off the coast of… Read More

Africa This Week: January 29, 2024

January 29, 2024 A weekly review of news and analysis of elections in Africa, usually posted on Mondays and occasionally updated throughout the week. Voters in line during Senegal’s 2019 elections. Photo credit: Wikimedia/VOA Seydina Aba Gueye (public… Read More

Africa This Week: January 15, 2024

Africa Elections Weekly News Review: January 15 2024 - 21votes

January 15, 2024 A weekly review of news and analysis of elections in Africa, usually posted on Mondays and occasionally updated throughout the week. Moroni, capital of Comoros. Photo credit: Wikimedia/Woodlouse – Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) Upcoming Africa… Read More

Africa This Week – March 25, 2019

Upcoming ElectionsSouth Africa General – May 8, 2019John Campbell at the Council on Foreign Relations: “South Africa’s national elections will take place on May 8. Looking toward that event, the African national Congress (ANC) and its leader, state president Cyril… Read More

Africa This Week – February 18, 2019

Upcoming ElectionsNigeria General – February 23, 2019 (postponed from February 16)Hours before polls were set to open, Nigeria’s election commission announced that the elections would be delayed a week, to February 23, due to unspecified “challenges.” BBC: “Nigeria… Read More

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Upcoming ElectionsNigeria General – February 16, 2019Bloomberg: Nigeria’s Brutal Choice: Former Dictator or Alleged Kleptocrat Caleb Okereke profiles long-shot presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore in African Arguments: “Sowore, backed by the African Action Congress (AAC) party, is determined to… Read More

Africa This Week – February 4, 2019

Upcoming ElectionsNigeria General – February 16, 2019BBC reports: “Nigeria’s vice-president has said he is “safe and sound” after surviving a helicopter crash as he was on his way to an election campaign rally.” Presidential candidate Oby (Obiageli) Ezekwesili… Read More

Africa This Week – January 28, 2019

On deck: Nigeria general (February 16); Senegal presidential (February 24); Madagascar parliamentary (March); Nigeria Rivers state gubernatorial and state legislature (March 2); Guinea legislative (overdue – mandates of current legislators expired January 13 – date not set for… Read More

Africa This Week – January 7, 2019

Upcoming ElectionsNigeria General – February 16, 2019Nigerians go to the polls next month. John Campbell at the Council on Foreign Relations notes: “This political model based on an elite dominated, patrimonial society is challenged each electoral cycle by… Read More

Africa This Week – December 31, 2018

Upcoming ElectionsGuinea-Bissau Legislative – March 10, 2019The UN Security Council issued a statement expressing “deep concern” about continued delays of the legislative elections, which were supposed to take place on November 18 2018. “The members of the Security… Read More