Africa’s 2024 Elections Off to a Bad Start

Africa’s 2024 Elections Off to a Bad Start

1319 issue: week ending 16 February 2024By Arezki Daoud: It’s an election year in Africa and it already started badly. The East African island of Comoros in the Indian Ocean opened the election cycle on 14 January, with autocratic figure Azali Assoumani “re-elected”...
Mali junta ends Algiers Agreement

Mali junta ends Algiers Agreement

The ruling junta in Mali announced, on Thursday 25 January, the “end, with immediate effect”, of the Algiers agreement signed in 2015 with the pro-autonomy and independence groups based in the north of the country. Long considered essential for stabilizing...
Sahel: Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger Announce Withdrawal from ECOWAS Bloc

Sahel: Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger Announce Withdrawal from ECOWAS Bloc

In a significant development, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger have decided to withdraw from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS, following a prolonged disagreement over ECOWAS’s rejection of military rule in West Africa. The Sahel nations,...
Morocco’s water woes deepen as rationing takes hold

Morocco’s water woes deepen as rationing takes hold

1317 issue: week ending 26 January 2024By The North Africa Journal: The entire sub-region of North Africa is the hardest hit by a drought that is causing disruptions to millions of households, businesses and farmers. The situation is probably the worst in the region’s...
South Africa: A weakened ruling ANC party

South Africa: A weakened ruling ANC party

Africa 2024 ElectionsBookmark this page. It will be updated as we get close to the election Election day: May 2024 20 January 2024 – In South Africa, the ruling African National Congress (ANC), which has been in power since the end of apartheid in 1994, is in...
Madagascar: Forthcoming legislative elections unlikely to be fair

Madagascar: Forthcoming legislative elections unlikely to be fair

Africa 2024 ElectionsBookmark this page. It will be updated as we get closer to the election Election day expected: May 2024 Jan 20, 2024: In Madagascar, where the last Presidential election was an electoral farce, the legislative elections scheduled for the first...
Togo: President Gnassingbe likely to prevail amid ineffective opposition

Togo: President Gnassingbe likely to prevail amid ineffective opposition

Africa 2024 ElectionsBookmark this page. It will be updated as we get closer to the election Legislative elections day expected: March 2024 Togo has a perceived and fragile democracy: President Faure Gnassingbé has been quietly re-elected since 2005 without much...
Somaliland: An unrecognized state in search of legitimacy

Somaliland: An unrecognized state in search of legitimacy

Africa 2024 Elections– Bookmark this page. It will be updated as we get closer to the election – Election date: November 2024 – Return to Africa election center The unrecognized state of Somaliland, on the Horn of Africa, will hold presidential...
Ghana headed to healthy election competition with three candidates

Ghana headed to healthy election competition with three candidates

Africa 2024 Elections– Bookmark this page. It will be updated as we get closer to the election – Election date: December 2024 – Return to Africa election center 20 January 2024: In Ghana, the 7 September 2024 presidential election will be as free as...

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