BVAS machine being used during the recent Nigerian Elections. (Photo by Businessday NG) On March 18, Nigerians will go to the polls again to vote for Governors and State Assembly Representatives. This is after Nigeria’s election commission postponed the gubernatorial…
INEC headquarters (Photo by RootsTVNigeria) Nigeria’s new Electoral Act was welcomed by political finance experts across Africa on the basis of the progressive provisions on campaign finance. Once the legislators and President Muhammadu Buhari had done their part of passing…
Cameroonian President Paul Biya casts his ballot during the presidential election in Yaounde, 2018. (REUTERS Zohra Bensemra). Cameroon is at the tail end of campaigns for the country’s Senatorial election. The campaigns will run till midnight of March 11 just…
Photo by UN Women Out of 1.4 billion Africans, half of that population is female, yet their participation in political processes remains way below average. According to the Women’s Political Participation: Africa Barometer,2021, women’s representation in remains way below the…
African Youth (Photo by school drillers) While the Me-Too and Not-too-Young-to-Run movements highlight equal rights of women and youth to participate in elective politics, until African electoral jurisdictions address the growing challenge of monetised and commercialised politics, the numbers of…
Tanzania’s President, Samia Suluhu Hassan President Samia Suluhu has resurrected the process of reviewing the constitution of the republic of Tanzania which stalled in 2014 and has been on hold ever since. This is in addition to the release of…
An electoral agent seals a ballot box in front of observers in Lubumbashi in 2019. (Photo by CNN) The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) which is the largest country in Sub-Saharan Africa and one of the most mineral-rich countries in…
Local election campaigns in Cape Verde, 2021. (Photo by (Africannews) Cape Verde is considered to be one of the few countries in Africa where democracy is functional. In October 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the 10-island archipelago held its seventh…
Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari. (Photo by ThisDay) By instructing the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to redesign the Naira, imposing a deadline for the swap of old notes, particularly targeting the N500 ($1.09) and N1,000 ($2.17) notes, coupled with setting…
Lusaka Zambia (Photo by Travel Weekly) The Global Democracy Coalition has designated March 27, 2023 to be commemorated as the Partners for Democracy Day. The day is an independent initiative that will bring together a global multi-stakeholder coalition for democracy…
