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Eight canditates are running for the presidential elections in Congo Brazaville and their names have been submitted to the constitutional court for validation ahead of the 21 March election. President Denis Sassou Nguesso will face seven challengers including the former finance minister, Mathias Dzon, and Guy-Brice Parfait Kolelas, the son …

Niger’s Constitutional Court confirmed in a ruling pronounced on Sunday that a second round of the presidential election is to be held on February 21. The court noted that no candidate had obtained an absolute majority of votes in the first round whose annulment, partial or total cancellation claimed by …

It remains three months to go before the presidential election in Benin, President Patrice Talon opened the election campaign with an announcement of his candidacy for a second term supposedly in the spirit of strengthening good governance. A surprise for some in light of the president’s declaration of wanting to …

The Nigerien opposition is studying the differents plans to gain power. A few weeks before the second round of the presidential election scheduled for February 21, calls to rally Mahamane Ousmane are increasing. Faced with Mohamed Bazoum, the candidate of power who came out on top, the opposition reflected seriously. Gathered within …

Will the presidential elections in Benin be like the non-inclusive legislatives of 2019? Many observers believe that the condition of sponsorship imposed by the government implies that the competition is not completely open. Indeed, only the ruling majority is able to gather the sponsorships today for the presidential election of April …

In a statement, ten of the sixteen candidates say they do not recognize the interim results of the December 27 presidential elections which proclaim president Touadera as winner. These candidates claim the cancellation of elections. Indeed, the National Authority for Elections announced the re-election in the first round of the …

The global provisional results of the National Authority of Election declare the outgoing president Faustin-Archange Touadera re-elected from the first round with 53,92% of the vote. Voices are already rising to protest this re-election of president Touadera. In front of Anicet-Georges Dologuélé who totalize 21,01% of the vote and Martin …

Bazoum and Mahamane will still have to fight. The two candidates for the presidential election in Niger will go to a second round to decide. This is what emerges from the discussions proclaimed this Saturday morning. The electoral commission has proclaimed the results of the first round of Niger’s presidential …

Beninese opposition and the political party “Les Democrates” of the former president Yayi Boni launch disputes over the conditions for the organization of the presidential election of April 21, 2021. The audit of the electoral register and the immediate application of decisions rendered by the African court of human Rights …