Nicole Beardsworth

Zambia will hold presidential elections in three weeks’ time amidst an ongoing economic crisis and rising political tensions. These are the five most important things to look out…

The rumour mill can shape politics — and reveal uncomfortable truths

In the face of spiralling debt, the Patriotic Front will struggle to take the next election

Mnangagwa’s slim election victory, followed by violence, has observers asking why he would do this when all he needed was international credibility

In a shock new change, the ZEC is to adjust the electoral protocol in the ZEC elections handbook to reposition the country’s voting booths

The 2018 election is the last hurdle that President Emmerson Mnangagwa needs to clear before his government will get the global stamp of approval.

In recent years, several countries have introduced a ‘None of the Above’ (NOTA) option on the ballot in general elections.

By disconnecting presidential terms from electoral cycles, ruling parties in Botswana and South Africa preserve the ‘incumbency effect’

With the possibility of a election and presidents stepping down at the end of 2018, what is certain is that the region will look very different

Africa’s young people suffer from political apathy, but a group in Senegal bucks the trend. Nicole Beardsworth reports.