A third of Africa will head to the polls in 2024, with at major issues on the line in at least 18 countries gearing up for an election year. These include coup-hit Mali, Chad and Burkina Faso ...

This week Africa celebrates the 19th anniversary of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (the Maputo Protocol), and the world begins ...

In several nations that held elections in 2024 – including France, Japan, South Africa, South Korea and the UK – more than seven-in-ten expressed this view. Inflation was an especially important issue ...

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Sunday, 30 June 2024, will go down in the annals of South African history as the day when 100 years of nationalist rule came to an abrupt end. Afrikaner nationalists gained control of South Africa ...

Against the backdrop of significant political shifts and recent and emerging popular coups in Africa, 2024 stands as an important year for the continent, with 19 countries gearing up for ...

Some 54 councillors and 103 municipal workers have been gunned down in targeted political killings in South Africa since 2000 as observers point out that lack of political will to prosecute the ...

South Africa’s lower house of parliament currently includes 14 political parties represented by 400 members, allocated proportionally based on the votes each party received in the 2019 elections.

Mali's current junta seized power in a second 2021 coup and later promised to take 24 months from March 2022 to restore civilian rule, with a start date of March 26, 2024 and elections in February.

Donald Trump has redrawn America’s political geography — not only winning back the White House for himself but pointing the way to victory for Republicans four years from now.

Mali's junta has issued a decree halting political party activities, ... 2024 2:08 PM UTC Updated April 11, 2024 ... the first of eight coups in West and Central Africa over four years, ...

The African National Congress and its staunchest adversary, the White-led, Democratic Alliance, forged an unprecedented alliance Friday, agreeing to collaborate in South Africa’s new government ...