April 10, 2023 A weekly review of news and analysis of elections in Africa, usually posted on Mondays and occasionally updated throughout the week. Lumley Beach in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Photo credit: Wikimedia/Hussein Kefel (CC BY-SA 3.0) Upcoming… Read More
Category: This Week Tags: Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Uganda, Zimbabwe
February 13, 2023 A weekly review of news and analysis of elections in Africa, usually posted on Mondays and occasionally updated throughout the week. The main gate of the Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove in southern Nigeria. Photo credit: Wikimedia/Vitus… Read More
January 16, 2023 A weekly review of news and analysis of elections in Africa, usually posted on Mondays and occasionally updated throughout the week. Porto-Novo, the seat of Benin’s legislature. Photo credit: Wikimedia/Élisée.Adad (CC BY-SA 4.0) Upcoming Africa… Read More
January 8, 2023 A weekly review of news and analysis of elections in Africa, usually posted on Mondays and occasionally updated throughout the week. Skyscrapers in Lagos, Nigeria. Photo credit: Wikimedia/Olasunkanmiariyo (CC BY-SA 4.0) Upcoming Africa Elections Nigeria… Read More
Category: This Week Tags: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Cameroon, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Gambia, Nigeria, Senegal, Somaliland, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Zimbabwe
September 26, 2022 A weekly review of news and analysis of elections in Africa, usually posted on Mondays and occasionally updated throughout the week. The city of Abakaliki in southeastern Nigeria. Photo credit: Wikimedia/Liberty22 (CC BY-SA 4.0) Upcoming… Read More
Category: This Week Tags: Angola, Burkina Faso, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea, Kenya, Nigeria, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Somaliland, Sudan, Zimbabwe
May 16, 2022 A weekly review of news and analysis of elections in Africa, usually posted on Mondays and occasionally updated throughout the week. For a full electoral calendar and interactive map, click here. The highway heading into Nairobi,… Read More
Category: This Week Tags: Angola, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Guinea, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, South Sudan, Uganda, Zimbabwe
Upcoming Elections In addition to the elections below, we’re watching: Chad legislative and local (president has said they they will happen in the first half of 2019, but they have already been delayed several times and could be… Read More
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
Category: This Week Tags: Burundi, Chad, Comoros, DRC, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Madagascar, Malawi, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Togo
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Africa This Week: April 10, 2023
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April 10, 2023 A weekly review of news and analysis of elections in Africa, usually posted on Mondays and occasionally updated throughout the week. Lumley Beach in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Photo credit: Wikimedia/Hussein Kefel (CC BY-SA 3.0) Upcoming… Read More
Category: This Week Tags: Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Uganda, Zimbabwe
Africa This Week: April 3, 2023
Last Updated: April 11, 2023 by 21votes Leave a Comment
Category: This Week Tags: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Zimbabwe
Africa This Week: February 13, 2023
Last Updated: February 22, 2023 by 21votes Leave a Comment
February 13, 2023 A weekly review of news and analysis of elections in Africa, usually posted on Mondays and occasionally updated throughout the week. The main gate of the Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove in southern Nigeria. Photo credit: Wikimedia/Vitus… Read More
Category: This Week Tags: Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eswatini, Gabon, Mali, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, Togo
Africa This Week: January 16, 2023
Last Updated: January 23, 2023 by 21votes Leave a Comment
January 16, 2023 A weekly review of news and analysis of elections in Africa, usually posted on Mondays and occasionally updated throughout the week. Porto-Novo, the seat of Benin’s legislature. Photo credit: Wikimedia/Élisée.Adad (CC BY-SA 4.0) Upcoming Africa… Read More
Category: This Week Tags: Benin, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Nigeria, Sudan, Togo, Zimbabwe
Africa This Week: January 8, 2023
Last Updated: January 17, 2023 by 21votes Leave a Comment
January 8, 2023 A weekly review of news and analysis of elections in Africa, usually posted on Mondays and occasionally updated throughout the week. Skyscrapers in Lagos, Nigeria. Photo credit: Wikimedia/Olasunkanmiariyo (CC BY-SA 4.0) Upcoming Africa Elections Nigeria… Read More
Category: This Week Tags: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Cameroon, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Gambia, Nigeria, Senegal, Somaliland, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Zimbabwe
Africa This Week: September 26, 2022
Last Updated: October 6, 2022 by 21votes Leave a Comment
September 26, 2022 A weekly review of news and analysis of elections in Africa, usually posted on Mondays and occasionally updated throughout the week. The city of Abakaliki in southeastern Nigeria. Photo credit: Wikimedia/Liberty22 (CC BY-SA 4.0) Upcoming… Read More
Category: This Week Tags: Angola, Burkina Faso, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea, Kenya, Nigeria, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Somaliland, Sudan, Zimbabwe
Africa This Week: May 16, 2022
Last Updated: June 5, 2022 by 21votes Leave a Comment
May 16, 2022 A weekly review of news and analysis of elections in Africa, usually posted on Mondays and occasionally updated throughout the week. For a full electoral calendar and interactive map, click here. The highway heading into Nairobi,… Read More
Category: This Week Tags: Angola, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Guinea, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, South Sudan, Uganda, Zimbabwe
Africa This Week – January 13, 2019
Last Updated: January 29, 2019 by 21votes Leave a Comment
Upcoming Elections In addition to the elections below, we’re watching: Chad legislative and local (president has said they they will happen in the first half of 2019, but they have already been delayed several times and could be… Read More
Category: This Week Tags: Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC, Gabon, Madagascar, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Zimbabwe
Africa This Week – January 7, 2019
Last Updated: January 29, 2019 by 21votes Leave a Comment
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
Category: This Week Tags: Burundi, Chad, Comoros, DRC, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Madagascar, Malawi, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Togo