Polls Africa

Comoros held elections on Sunday in an election where the incumbent President Azali Assoumani is likely to win.

The frontrunners are President George Weah of the Congress for Democratic Change and Joseph Boakai of the Unity Party.

Nigeria's first democratic elections were held in 1959. The elections were won by the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC) party, led by Nnamdi Azikiwe.

Two coups d’état in 9 months mark the latest inflection point in Burkina Faso’s political instability, causing heightened uncertainty as the country faces an escalating militant Islamist threat.

Angola uses a closed-list proportional representation electoral system. Voters cast ballots for lists of candidates drawn up by political parties.

In less than two months, Kenya will hold general elections, specifically on the 9th of August. Ethnic mathematics have long been a significant factor in Kenyan elections. Currently, however, it is the economy that is dominating political campaigns. Why so?

Five presidential elections are scheduled to take place in Africa in 2022. While those in Kenya and Angola are high stakes polls given the size of the countries’ economies, those in Sudan and Libya are equally important for the countries’ stability.

Benin’s presidential elections are part of a gambit by President Pierre Talon to normalize political exclusion as a means of perpetuating his hold on power.

15 presidential elections are set to be held in African in 2021. The test will respecting terms limits, conducting peaceful and credible elections and predictability with respect to election calendars.

African elections in 2020 [were] a test against efforts to erode presidential term limits and other democratic checks and balances, with direct consequences for stability on the continent. - africacenter.org.