Election

Ethiopia: Registration for Local Elections completed

The registration of voters for the local elections due in April throughout the country was completed last weekend with nearly…

Timeline: PM Hailemariam Desalegne's first 100 days

Ethiopia's newly elected Prime Minister made 100 days in office on Dec. 28, 2013. Here is a round up of…

Analysis | The Election of the First Woman AU Leader

(By Mehari Taddele Maru (PhD) * The elections of the leadership of the African Union has surged the democratic profile…

Somalia: Hassan Sheikh Mohamud elected President

Somalia's Parliament on Monday elected Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, aged 56, as President of Somalia for the next four years. The…

Briefing: The Egyptian revolution undone?

Mohamad Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) has been declared the official winner of the first…

Egypt’s Elections: Court may throw everything topsy-turvy this week

Highlights: Only two days before the election, the Supreme Constitutional Court will consider two cases that could potentially throw everything…

Egypt’s election: The first round is over, now comes the hard part

Elections are vastly complicated affairs, the dominant characteristic of which appears to be unpredictability. Egypt’s presidential election in 2012 was…

Kenya: Survivors of post-election violence seek more than resettlement

Most of those displaced by post-election violence mainly in Kenya’s Rift Valley Province five years ago have been resettled, but…

Egypt’s Presidential Elections: What do the Military Want?

On 23 May, Egyptians head to the polls to elect the first president of the post-Mubarak era. Whilst this is…

Somalia: Elders confer on draft Constitution, for legislative elections

The conference of Somali elders in Mogadishu which opened last Saturday has continued all this week. It is supposed to…

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