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Somalia has once again pushed back the deadline for completing parliamentary elections, which are already more than a year overdue, because of political disputes. The remaining 50 seats in the country’s lower house must now be filled by the end of this month. Somalia has not held a one-person-one-vote election …

Somalia is likely to miss a deadline to conclude long-delayed parliamentary elections as political disagreements continue in the country. The federal government had set a deadline of March 15 to complete the polls, but more than 50 seats in the legislature are yet to be filled. This could in turn …

In the early hours of Monday, the Election Commission of Zambia declared opposition candidate Hakainde Hichilema the winner in the August 12 presidential election. Mr Hichilema, 59, defeated incumbent President Edgar Lungu, 64. In a TV show broadcast on the YouTube video-sharing platform, the commission chairman announced the final results …

The March parliamentary session began on Monday in Kinshasa as the Democratic Republic of Congo has been without a government for two months. Yesterday’s start of the parliamentary session comes one month after the appointment on February 15 of the new Prime Minister Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde who has yet to …

After dismissing allegations of irregularities, Ghana’s Supreme Court has upheld Nana Akufo-Addo’s victory in the December presidential election. Opposition candidate, and former President John Mahama, had filed a petition asking the court to annul the results of the elections and order a rerun because of alleged irregularities. But the court …

It has been over 24 hours since polls closed and Uganda is still counting votes from its presidential and parliamentary elections. Preliminary results announced by the electoral commission put President Yoweri Museveni in a commanding lead. His rival, 38-year-old legislator Bobi Wine has dismissed the tally as a ‘joke’. The …