A candidate running for Parliament in Pakistan’s election next week has been shot dead along with his three-year-old son in Karachi, say police.
SA is in discussions on whether to help cash-strapped Zimbabwe fund its presidential and parliamentary elections, says the national treasury.
Kenyan presidential hopefuls made a final bid to woo voters Saturday on the last day of campaigning for the tightly fought March 4 elections.
In the run-up to Kenya’s elections in March, people still displaced have camped around the town of Nakuru in Rift Valley and fear renewed violence.
President Ismael Omar Guelleh’s regime is up against its most serious threat in a decade: a united opposition for this week’s legislative elections.
The stakes are high, and the choice is between two presidential candidates who both lack integrity.
Mamphela Ramphele has set off rampant guesswork about whether she could finally help forge a viable alternative to the seemingly unshakeable ANC.
Elections and referendum are on hold as officials squabble, but issues will hopefully be resolved soon, writes Ray Ndlovu.
Egypt, battered by political turmoil and an economic crisis, will hold a parliamentary election in April, officials have said.
Sierra Leone’s main opposition party has conceded defeat to President Ernest Bai Koroma, weeks after complaining the election was marred by fraud.
Sierra Leone People’s Party has called on members to boycott government proceedings, claiming electoral fraud had undermined the recent elections.
Rights groups have voiced fears that Zimbabwean authorities would launch a crackdown on rights activists ahead of a referendum and the 2013 elections.
Sierra Leone saw a largely peaceful, well-conducted vote despite reports of money changing hands and polling stations marred by bees or lack of light.
Sierra Leoneans have crowded polling stations to vote, saying they wanted to elect leaders who would bring prosperity to the poor West African state.
Vice-president Xi Jinping has been appointed chief of China’s military.
With Sierra Leone still recovering from a long and bloody civil war, citizens will vote in presidential and parliamentary elections on Saturday.
The Mail & Guardian takes a look at the continent’s new and not-so-new leaders who were elected into office this year.
Sierra Leone kicked off a month-long campaign on Wednesday for its national elections but few women have featured as candidates in the race.
Libyans began voting in a poll designed to shake off the legacy of Muammar Gaddafi but which risks being hijacked by autonomy demands in the east.
A single party dominated Mexico for most of the past century, and its loss 12 years ago proved to many that the country was finally a democracy.
Two presidential candidates face prosecution and ethnic lines have divided the country, writes Nastasya Tay.
Lesotho’s voters head to the polls in a tight election where bitter rivalries among the three main party leaders have overshadowed worries about jobs.
A court ruling that ousted the controversial president of Angola’s national electoral commission has been hailed by the country’s opposition parties.
Lesotho goes to the polls on May 26 and as 15 parties battle it out in the closely fought election, the country’s problems are largely ignored.
Mpumalanga ANC chair David Mabuza has been re-elected unopposed amid alliance partner claims that his pro-Zuma camp "corrupted the conference".
Guinea Bissau’s presidential hopeful, Carlos Gomes Junior says the country needs international rescue ahead of elections.
The government is "seriously exploring the need" to have a single election for national, provincial and local government, President Jacob Zuma says.
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s party was on Saturday set to back his push for elections in the country early next year.
The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday backed Alassane Ouattara as the winner of Côte d’Ivoire’s disputed November 28 presidential election.
Airport sources said Thabo Mbeki arrived on Sunday in Abidjan on an emergency mission to mediate after Côte d’Ivoire’s disputed presidential election.
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Burma opposition parties were heartened by an upsurge in applications for party membership, even though they won a few seats in November’s elections.
New electoral laws exclude iconic democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi by barring anybody serving a custodial sentence.