Country Focus

Ghanaians go to the ballot on 7 December for general elections to elect a president and the 275-member National Assembly, on the exact date elections were held 4 years ago in 2016.

Burkina Faso is trying to build its democratic institutions following the 27-year rule of Blaise Compaoré. The 2020 elections will be the second democratic presidential elections since Compaoré’s ouster.

Citizens of Tanzania head to the polls on October 28 for the country's highly anticipated presidential election. Tanzania's election commission has cleared 17 candidates with 2 of them being female.

Seychelles goes to polls on October 22. The elections are expected to be a tight race, where two of the top presidential candidates will likely go into a second-round if no one obtains above 50 percent of the votes.

On 3 February 2020, the Constitutional Court annulled the presidential election results making Malawi the 2nd country in Africa to see an election victory overturned in the courts.

The October 31 polls have put this West African dynamo on edge. Events leading to elections have threated its political stability after President Alassane Ouattara decided to run for a 3rd term.

The new constitution which was passed in March 2020 through a referendum reset presidential terms allowing the 82-year-old incumbent, President Alpha Condé to run for a third term.