Congo Republic President Denis Sassou Nguesso has been re-elected with more than 88% of the vote, official results showed on Tuesday, extending his 36 years leading the country despite a

Israelis began voting on Tuesday in the country’s fourth parliamentary election in two years — a highly charged referendum on the divisive rule of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Public opinion

The UN, the US, Canada, the African Union and several European nations have called on Somalia’s political leaders to “show leadership” by reaching an agreement on elections that were delayed

No less than 40 people have been killed in suspected militant attacks in Niger’s western Tahoua region on Sunday, hours after the constitutional court validated the election of Mohamed Bazoum

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari says the attack by gunmen on Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom should not be politicised, describing it as unacceptable demanding a stop to the string of

The leading opposition candidate in Congo-Brazzaville’s presidential election is in hospital with Covid-19 while voting is under way. After casting his ballot, President Sassou N’Guesso, who is widely expected to

Thousands of Israelis have taken to the streets to protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, just days before the country’s fourth general election in less than two years. Widespread protests

As Nigeria’s governing All Progressives Congress (APC) and the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) struggle to hammer out a deal on the zoning of their presidential slots ahead of

Voters in the Republic of the Congo will head to the polls on Sunday to elect a president in a vote boycotted by the country’s leading opposition party. President Denis

Kano State Governor Umar Ganduje has said his administration will deal with those behind the 2018 “tampered videos” that allegedly showed him receiving kickbacks from contractors. He said the videos

A federal grand jury charged four leaders of the far-right Proud Boys with conspiring to block Congress from certifying US President Joe Biden’s election on the day of a deadly

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that US President Joe Biden’s comments about Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin, in which he called him a “killer”, were “unacceptable” and “not

A former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter Onnoghen has called on the country’s judges not to be discouraged by his removal from office by the executive arm (headed by

  The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday said it had not yet decided on the zone that would produce its candidate for the 2023 presidential election. The party’s Governor

South-east and South-south leaders on Friday rejected the report of a committee set up by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which recommended the scrapping of its zoning policy. The PDP

The first high-level US-China talks of the Biden administration got off to a fiery start on Thursday, with both sides levelling sharp rebukes of the others’ policies in a rare

Tanzania’s soft-spoken Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Friday was sworn in as the East African country’s first female president after the sudden death of John Magufuli from an illness

Presidential candidate of the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 presidential election Atiku Abubakar has embarked on a “massive membership e-registration drive” for his support organisation aimed at