With polling day on Saturday, Australia’s first woman prime minister is working overtime to overcome a strong challenge for her opposer.
One is 78 years old and desperately trying to salvage his legacy. The other is 85 and past caring:Kenya’s president, Mwai Kibaki, and his predecessor.
Rwandans go to the polls on Monday to return to power what many analysts describe as a "minority ethnic dictatorship" lorded over by Paul Kagame.
Guinea’s first free election since independence was met with praise and relief on Tuesday, but observers warned the days to come were crucial.
Burundi’s peace deal and democratic ambitions will be put to the test on Monday, with the start of the first phase of an electoral marathon.
Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza hopes his personal brand of "grassroots development" and religious fervour will win him re-election next month.
Andry Rajoelina announced on Wednesday he won’t stand in Madagascar’s presidential election, in a major step towards resolving a political deadlock.
Cooperative Governance Minister Sicelo Shiceka will "take further consultations" on the possibility of holding a single election in the future.
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/ 23 February 2010
Mediators looked to have secured an end to Côte d’Ivoie’s political crisis on Monday after the key players agreed to salvage a political accord.
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/ 16 December 2009
Opposition parties in Namibia on Wednesday launched a court challenge to the result of last month’s election.
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/ 7 December 2009
Mozambique’s Constitutional Council has dismissed allegations by opposition party Renamo of voting rigging in elections which the ruling Frelimo won.
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/ 1 December 2009
Namibia’s ruling party was heading on Tuesday for a big election win but results so far showed the two-thirds majority is under threat.
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/ 1 December 2009
Millions of voters could be left out of Sudan’s first elections in 24 years, international observers said on Tuesday.
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/ 30 November 2009
First results from Namibia’s elections trickled in on Monday, but too few to show whether a new opposition would break up the ruling party’s majority.
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/ 20 November 2009
A new opposition party could score votes from disillusioned ‘born-frees’, writes John Grobler.
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/ 6 November 2009
Mozambique’s ruling party has taken more than two-thirds of the seats in parliament since 1975, writes Henrik Lomholt Rasmussen.
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/ 6 November 2009
Ebrahim Rasool has found himself relieved and vindicated by the admission that there had been some collusion between the DA and some ANC members.
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/ 30 October 2009
Support for Frelimo, Mozambique’s ruling party since independence in 1975, was the issue when about 9,5-million voters went to the polls on Wednesday.
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/ 29 October 2009
Mozambique’s ruling party enjoyed a firm lead in early election returns on Thursday, local media said.
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/ 28 October 2009
Voting began in Mozambique’s elections on Wednesday, with President Armando Guebuza expected to retain power.
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/ 27 October 2009
As Mozambique heads to the polls on Wednesday, the ruling party looks set for an easy victory over an opposition battered by a recent split.
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/ 26 October 2009
After South Africa, Malawi and Botswana the 2009 Southern Africa election express rolls into the region’s rising star, Mozambique, this week.
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/ 20 October 2009
Ecowas on Tuesday suspended Niger after President Mamadou Tandja went ahead with legislative elections despite calls to delay the vote.
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/ 14 September 2009
Angela Merkel was on Monday still on track to win re-election in two weeks’ time after her rival failed to land a knock-out blow in a TV debate.
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/ 10 September 2009
The AU called for calm in Somaliland on Thursday after lawmakers scuffled in Parliament and one drew a pistol in an angry dispute.
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/ 5 September 2009
It’s tempting to dismiss last weekend’s landslide election victory of Japan’s opposition as reflectinga bad-tempered mood among recession-hit voters.
Japanese youth face a range of uncertainties as the country heads toward an election, with job prospects dwindling in a downbeat economy.
Kaoru Yosano on Tuesday warned that the opposition party likely to score a landslide in weekend elections would create a "one-party dictatorship".
Iraq was set on Monday to release preliminary results from weekend elections in the automomous Kurdish region after a new party claimed a breakthrough
Iran confirmed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president and said a row over his re-election was over, leaving opponents who cried foul with few options.
A partial recount of Iran’s disputed June 12 presidential election began on Monday, al-Alam state television reported.
Iran’s supreme leader has told the top election supervisory body to examine defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi’s complaints.