Botswana’s Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) swept to power in the landlocked southern African country on Friday, taking 35 of 61 seats in parliament and ousting the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) after 58 years. The BDP had secured just two seats, the electoral commission announced. It had ruled the...
Presidential election
U.S. President Joe Biden addressed the nation on Wednesday for the first time since dropping his reelection bid, saying he decided to forgo personal ambition to save democracy in a sedate Oval Office speech that contrasted with the rough-and-tumble campaign. Shortly before the speech, Republican Donald Trump laid...
US President Joe Biden announced Sunday that he was dropping out of his reelection battle with Donald Trump, in a historic move that plunges the already turbulent 2024 White House race into uncharted territory. “It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve you...
Donald Trump has vowed to run “to be president for all of America” as he took to the stage at the Republican National Convention on Friday. Trump said this in his first public speech following the failed attempt on his life. “I stand before you this evening with...
Incumbent Paul Kagame is set to win a fourth term in office in the presidential election in Rwanda. With nearly 79 per cent of all votes counted, Kagame has garnered more than 99 per cent of the vote, according to the electoral commission. His two opponents, the chairman...
President Joe Biden said on Friday he intended to defeat Republican rival Donald Trump in the November presidential election, giving no sign he would consider dropping out of the race. Biden was speaking after a feeble debate performance that dismayed his fellow Democrats. “I know I’m not a...
Chad holds presidential election on Monday meant to end three years of military administration and usher in democracy, but instead it appears likely to solidify the interim president’s grip on power. General Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno who seized power in 2021, suspended the constitution, and was installed as...
Russia’s incumbent President Vladimir Putin won with 87.3 per cent of the votes counted in the presidential elections after 99.83 per cent of ballots were counted. This showed the latest data from the Russian Central Election Commission (CEC) on Monday. Communist Party candidate Nikolai Kharitonov is in second...
The United States presidential election in November is looking more like a referendum. Though intended as a democratic ritual, it could end up as a choice between democracy and authoritarianism. That at least is what the rhetoric and track record of the two most likely...
The Democratic Republic of Congo voted on Thursday on the second day of a chaotic and in parts, violent general election after authorities extended opening hours for polling stations that failed to open the previous day. The elections across Africa’s second-largest country were disrupted on Wednesday by delays...
The Democratic Republic of Congo is holding presidential and legislative elections on Wednesday after a chaotic campaign marred by opposition allegations of fraud, electoral violence, and logistical setbacks that could prevent many from voting. At stake is not just the legitimacy of the next administration. Congolese election disputes...
Madagascar’s High Constitutional Court on Friday declared incumbent President Andry Rajoelina as the winner of last month’s election, effectively handing him a third term. Rajoelina got 58.96 per cent of the votes cast, the court said after dismissing various challenges lodged against the provisional results announced by the...
The Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC), on Thursday in Abuja, admonished the legal team of the Labour Party and its presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, for failing to properly organise its schedule of documents for seamless tendering as exhibits. Obi and his party filed a petition challenging the outcome...
Daniel Bwala is a known mouthpiece of Atiku Abubakar’s failed (for the umpteenth time) presidential ambition. But in the crazy political world of the Turakin Adamawa where it’s now apparent that the water has since dried on the back of his fish, his lieutenants now seem to be trying...
Gov. Aminu Masari of Katsina State has revealed why himself and other Northern Governors supported the presidential ambition of the President-elect, Sen. Bola Tinubu. The governor made the revelation on Thursday in Daura during a farewell visit to the Emir of Daura, Alhaji Umar Faruq-Umar. According to him, the...
The Presidential Election Petition Court, (PEPC), has adjourned pre-hearing in the petitions filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’ and the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) until May 18. The five-member panel, led by Justice Haruna Tsammani adjourned after listening to the agreement by all the counsel in the petitions....
The Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) has further adjourned pre-hearing in the petitions filed by Mr Peter Obi and his Labour Party until May 17. The panel led by Justice Haruna Tsammani adjourned after parties agreed on time to exchange processes and responses. Tsammani said parties have agreed that...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has called on the judiciary to discharge its constitutional duties in the pending petitions before the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal as an independent and impartial arbiter. The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, at a news conference on Sunday in Abuja, urged the judiciary...