This project seeks to track, analyze, and report on elections across Africa, many of which shape the continent’s trajectory in global politics in the coming decades. Across Africa, elections are too ...

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Voters were busy across the globe in 2024 and more than a dozen countries in Africa staged presidential, parliamentary or local elections. While some of Africa’s longtime dominant ruling parties ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — In Southern Africa, where democracy remains relatively stable, elections held in 2024 saw long-governing liberation parties struggling to survive. Across Africa, power ...

As several African countries head to the polls in 2026, election outcomes will directly shape leadership, policy priorities, and democratic credibility at home, while also influencing regional ...

Concession speeches play a crucial role in validating election outcomes, strengthening democracies and, in many instances, preventing post-election violence in Africa. We compile some of the most ...

Justice Malala is a political commentator and former editor of South Africa's This Day. He is the author of “The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation.” ...

Africa’s Latest Elections End With Crackdowns on Opposition and Disputed Results ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The latest elections in different African countries have ended with the same outcome: sidelined ...

Voters in Gabon head to the ballot box on April 12, 2025, in a vote that marks the first election in the Central African nation since a 2023 coup ended the 56-year rule of the Bongo family. It is also ...

Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni is expected to continue his iron-fist rule; Benin’s Patrice Talon will likely step down. As discontent towards the ‘old’ rulers is rising in Africa, will the new generation be ...