Chad presidential election: assassination of main opposition figure casts doubt on country’s return to democracy: The assassination of Chad’s main opposition leader, Yaya Dillo, is hanging heavy over presidential elections due in early May. Dillo was killed on 28 February when the headquarters of the opposition Party Socialiste sans Frontières (Party of Socialists without Borders) …
Madagascar’s 2023 presidential election is crucial for the island’s future, but it’s off to a rocky start: Madagascar is set to elect its president on 16 November 2023, for the next five years. There’s a lot at stake. I’ve studied Madagascar’s politics – focusing on democratisation and political transitions – and believe that this election …
Argentina’s economic crisis: whoever wins presidential election is on a collision course with the IMF: Argentina is heading to the polls on October 22 for a presidential election dominated by another profound economic crisis. In September, annual inflation in Latin America’s third-largest economy hit 124%, its highest since 1991. This was after a devaluation of …
Can Biden bounce back as the US presidential race turns nastier?: Antagonism between the two expected candidates for US president in 2024 is ramping up as the political battleground turns increasingly nasty. US president Joe Biden suggested that Donald Trump and his allies pose a threat to democracy, “our institutions, to our constitution itself”, in …
Who won the first US Republican presidential debate? An expert reviews the highlights: The reigning champion, and undisputed winner, from the first Republican debate of presidential hopefuls? Donald Trump. Even in his absence, he was the main spectacle. That much was predictable. Although many tried to dance around him, every candidate had to address the …
The ‘truther playbook’: tactics that explain vaccine conspiracy theorist RFK Jr’s presidential momentum: While incumbent Joe Biden is the favoured Democratic pick for the 2024 US presidential nomination, another more controversial candidate is gaining popular support in the polls. Robert F. Kennedy Jr, a self-described vaccine sceptic, announced his candidacy to run for president as …
Trump v DeSantis: how the two Republican presidential heavy-hitters compare: In an episode of HBO’s Real Time in March 2023, comedian Bill Maher hit the nail on the head when describing the current debate over Donald Trump v Ron DeSantis for the Republican presidential nomination. Conventional wisdom is that lots of voters want Trump’s policies …
How to poll 93 million voters – the challenge of pulling off Nigeria’s presidential elections: Voters display their permanent voters card during the 2019 Presidential and National Assembly elections in Lagos. Adekunle Ajayi/NurPhoto via Getty Images Nigeria’s electorate, which the Independent National Electoral Commission put at 93.5 million on the voters’ register, are expected to …
Nigeria’s 2023 presidential election: 10 factors that could affect the outcome: An official of Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) counts votes cast in an election. Photo by Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images As Nigerians inch closer to the February 2023 presidential election, the seventh since the current wave of liberal democracy formally started …
Four more years? Joe Biden and other Democratic hopefuls for the 2024 presidential nomination: If US president Joe Biden was looking for an excuse not to run in 2024, he didn’t get it in the midterms. Democrats not only avoided the dreaded “red wave”, but also managed to retain control of the Senate, held Republicans …
Presidential term limits will be hard to scrap in Kenya — here’s what it would take: President William Ruto inspects a guard of honour in Nairobi, Kenya in September 2022. Simon Maina/AFP via Getty Images A member of parliament in Kenyan president William Ruto’s governing coalition created a firestorm by suggesting that there was a …
Senegal’s presidential poll is shaping up as a real contest, with voters in the driver’s seat: Citizens waiting to vote in Dakar, Senegal during the parliamentary elections. Djibril Dia/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images In July 2022 Senegalese voters converged at polling stations to elect 165 members of parliament (MPs) to represent them in the National …
Atiku Abubakar: Nigeria’s perennial presidential candidate is back on the stump: Atiku Abubakar Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images Atiku Abubakar is the candidate for Nigeria’s main opposition party, the People’s Democratic Party, in the 2023 presidential election. He served as vice-president of Nigeria to President Olusegun Obasanjo from 1999 to 2007. Abubakar has had …
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Kenya’s fringe presidential candidates: what they offer in elections: A Kenyan elections official registers a voter's details. Donwilson Odhiambo/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images On 9 August 2022, Kenyans will vote for their fifth president. It will be the country’s seventh general election since the resumption of multiparty electoral democracy 30 years ago. This year will …
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Odinga is running his fifth presidential race. Why the outcome means so much for Kenya: Veteran Kenyan politician Raila Odinga is making his fifth stab at the presidency. Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images Leo ni leo. Inawezekana (Today is the day. It is possible). These are the Kiswahili lyrics of Raila Odinga’s presidential campaign anthem. …