In hope or despair, Kenyans choose new president from familiar faces
DUNCAN MIRIRI and AYENAT MERSIE KENYANS voted in national elections, forming long queues at ballot stations in the heartlands of
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South Africa is in search of a fairer electoral system. But what’s been tabled is flawed
SOUTH AFRICA is amending its electoral law to make it fairer by enabling citizens to contest provincial and national elections
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Nigeria rejects diaspora vote, special seats for women
NIGERIA’S Senate voted to reject changes to the constitution to allow citizens living abroad to vote in national elections, while
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Libya’s moment of danger in push for peace
ANGUS McDOWALL LYBIA’S best chance of peace in years is at risk of unravelling as factions tussle over looming national
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Libya headed back to ‘square one’
AYMAN AL-WERFALI LIBYA will return to “square one” and the turmoil of 2011 if national elections planned for December are
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Ethiopia’s Tigray region to holds poll, defying federal government
GIULIA PARAVICINI ETHIOPIA’S northern Tigray region will head to the polls on Wednesday in defiance of the federal government, the
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