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Elections & governance
RSS FeedSouth Africa: Tensions run high as climate change march is disrupted
2011-12-04, Issue 560
ANC supporters dressed in the COP17 volunteers' tracksuits tossed stones and water bottles at members of civil society organisations that were marching in protest against climate change, the corporate-funded lack of progress at COP17 and other green ...
Tunisia: Islamists and secularists face off
2011-12-04, Issue 560
Thousands of Tunisian Islamists and secularists staged parallel protests outside the interim parliament in a dispute over how big a role Islam should play in society after the country's 'Arab Spring' uprising, and subsequent election. Tensions have b...
DRC: Opposition rejects early results
2011-12-04, Issue 560
Opposition parties in Democratic Republic of Congo have rejected partial results released by the electoral commission giving incumbent President Joseph Kabila an early lead in the vote count from the November 28 presidential election. In a joint stat...
South Africa: COP17 civil society statement on conflict during the Global Day of Action
2011-12-04, Issue 560
'On Saturday 3 December, the mid-point of COP 17, about 12,000 people from across the continent and the world gathered in Durban to demand climate justice and unite against climate change. The march was largely peaceful, with divergent activist group...
Kenya: Enforce constitution or resign, CJ tells Kenya leaders
2011-12-05, Issue 560
State officers must enforce the Constitution fully or honourably resign, Chief Justice Willy Mutunga told the Kofi Annan meeting on Kenya progress Monday. Speaking when he gave a key note address at the two-day meeting, Dr Mutunga said complying with...
Egypt: Problems with vote counts, ballots threaten integrity of the results, says activist
2011-12-05, Issue 560
With stamped ballots piled on the desk in front of her, rights activist Ghada Shahbandar, said: 'As long as I have these obtained in my hands, I cannot trust the final declared results.' Speaking at a press conference held Saturday by the Egyptian Co...
Malawi: Bingu dodges Zambia-Malawi diplomatic stand-off
2011-11-22, Issue 559
President Bingu wa Mutharika failed to give a comprehensive answer on the diplomatic stand-off between Malawi and Zambia arising from a 2007 deportation of Zambia’s President Michael Sata when he was opposition leader then. The Head of State accused ...
Côte d'Ivoire: Ivorian parliamentary vote list closes without FPI
2011-11-22, Issue 559
The list of candidates for Ivory Coast's parliamentary election closed on Monday with 1,182 candidates vying for 255 seats, but the former ruling FPI party boycotted the process, the election commission said. The FPI ran the country while leader Laur...
Nigeria: Removal of fuel subsidy, not a solution to challenges facing Nigeria, says labour
2011-11-23, Issue 559
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has said the removal of fuel subsidy will not address the numerous challenges facing the country. Issa Aremu, the vice president of the NLC, made this known in Abuja at a ceremony organised by an NGO, Friedrich Ebert...
Madagascar: Former president back from nine-year exile
2011-11-24, Issue 559
Former Madagascar President Didier Ratsiraka has arrived home from a nine-year exile in France. His return follows the formation of a a unity government in the crisis-hit Indian Ocean island nation. Mr Ratsiraka, 75, has lived in luxurious villa in P...
Cameroon: President must make reforms to avoid ‘Cameroon Spring’
2011-11-24, Issue 559
Barely a few weeks after incumbent president Biya won another seven year mandate after 28 years in power, many Cameroonians would prefer to allow the dust to settle than to be drawn into worrying headlines, says this article posted on the [url=http:/...
Kenya: Outrage over $13m payout plan for Kenya MPs
2011-11-24, Issue 559
Kenyan MPs will pocket $13.3 million (Sh2.1 billion) if elections are held in August next year. The payout, described as 'immoral' by the Law Society of Kenya (LSK), will be compensation for having their terms, in the view of some, cut short. Each MP...
DRC: Election watch guide to aid civil society
2011-11-24, Issue 559
The Election Watch from Idasa is designed to aid civil society groups in the DRC and the region in holding governmental institutions accountable and ensuring a free and fair election. The Election Watch is based on the SADC principles and guidelines ...
Egypt: Elections begin; activists wear black
2011-11-28, Issue 559
Millions of Egyptians are expected to head to voting polls Monday, in Egypt’s first parliamentary elections since the uprising that toppled the former Hosni Mubarak regime earlier this year. A sum of 70 people died and over 3,000 were injured in figh...
Morocco: Islamic party wins Morocco parliamentary vote
2011-11-27, Issue 559
The Party of Justice and Development (PJD), a moderate Islamic party has taken a resounding victory in Morocco's parliamentary elections, Taib Cherkaoui, the country's interior minister, has announced. Cherkaoui told a press conference on Saturday th...
Gambia: Jammeh wins disputed elections
2011-11-27, Issue 559
Gambia's election commission has declared incumbent President Yahya Jammeh winner of elections, paving the way for him to begin a new five-year term in the West African country. Jammeh, who has been in power for 17 years, scored a landslide 72 per ce...
DRC: Voting begins
2011-11-28, Issue 559
Voting is under way across the Democratic Republic of Congo where presidential and legislative elections are expected to provide a stern challenge to President Joseph Kabila's leadership. More than 31 million people are eligible to vote on Monday in ...
South Africa: Sexwale’s prospects dive after Malema ruling
2011-11-15, Issue 558
Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale’s support for African National Congress (ANC) Youth League president Julius Malema may see his presidential ambitions collapse as he is frozen out of the camps of both President Jacob Zuma and those seeking to...
Angola: Is the Angolan Spring blossoming?
2011-11-15, Issue 558
Partly inspired by the Arab Spring, partly by their own experiences of living abroad, but mostly by what they say is utter frustration about the huge inequalities that divide Angola, an emerging youth protest group has no fixed political affiliations...
Tunisia: Forming of new government delayed amid a new wave of strikes
2011-11-16, Issue 558
After 23 October elections to the Tunisian Constituent Assembly, strikes have broken out in numerous sectors, including airport, postal and oil workers, against poor wages and working conditions. These strikes underscore popular opposition to the ent...
Kenya: No ruling on election date
2011-11-16, Issue 558
Kenya's newly-constituted Supreme Court on Tuesday 15 November refused to rule on a date for next year's elections, stoking voter unease over moves by the government to amend a polling timeline already endorsed by a referendum. Under the constitution...
Morocco: Activists call for poll boycott
2011-11-16, Issue 558
Thousands of pro-democracy activists demonstrated in Morocco's largest city calling for a boycott of parliamentary elections less than two weeks away. The demonstrations comes as a parliamentary delegation from the Council of Europe noted there was l...
Egypt: New electoral system explained
2011-11-17, Issue 558
thedailynewsegypt.com has a useful article on Egypt's election system. The first parliamentary elections following the ouster of president Hosni Mubarak are expected to attract an electorate that traditionally boycotted elections. Over 18 million Egy...
Egypt: Cairo clashes cast doubts over Egypt vote
2011-11-21, Issue 558
Protesters calling for Egypt's military to hand over power have beaten back a new raid by security forces to evict them from Cairo's Tahrir Square after more than 48 hours of violence in the heart of the Egyptian capital. Security forces fired tear g...
Madagascar: New premier takes office
2011-11-08, Issue 557
Malagasy's new Prime Minister Jean Omer Beriziky has been sworn in at a ceremony in the capital, Antananarivo. Mr Beriziky was chosen by the Indian Ocean island nation’s four main political parties through consensus....
Gambia: Opposition parties name unity candidate
2011-11-08, Issue 557
Four opposition parties in the Gambia have coalesced and named Mr Hamat Bah as their presidential candidate for elections set for later this month. The coalition candidate is the standard bearer of the National Reconciliation Party, a long-time chall...
Gabon: Court sends Gabon to the polls as planned
2011-11-08, Issue 557
Gabon's constitutional court has ruled that parliamentary elections will take place on 17 December as planned, despite opposition demands for a delay in the poll to introduce biometric voters cards, officials said. Gabon's opposition has been campaig...
Burundi: Six fired for poor performance
2011-11-08, Issue 557
Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza has sacked six ministers from his cabinet for poor performance, his spokesman said. When he was sworn in for his five-year second term, President Nkurunziza said that each government official will report on tasks a...
Sudan: 'Leader of southern political party arrested'
2011-11-09, Issue 557
The government of South Sudan has arrested the Chairman of the United Democratic Forum (UDF), Mr. Peter Abdurrahman Chule, whom it accused of attempting to recruit youths for a rebellion against the government in Juba. Radio Miraya, a UN-funded radio...
Equatorial Guinea: An overview of the government's efforts to reform the constitution
2011-11-10, Issue 557
Equatoguinean president Teodoro Obiang has proposed several changes to the constitution of Equatorial Guinea, including establishing a limit of two terms of seven years on the presidency, creating the office of vice-president, adding a second chamber...
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