Incumbent Julius Maada Bio wins Sierra Leone presidential election

Incumbent Julius Maada Bio wins Sierra Leone presidential election

President Julius Maada Bio has been elected to another term in Sierra Leone, where the country’s electoral commission declared him the winner of Saturday’s election with 56.2% of the vote. It was enough to ensure that the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) candidate will not face a runoff election. Main…

Laureen Fagan

Laureen is the editor of Africa Times

Sierra Leone’s Kamara claims election-related assassination attempt

Sierra Leone’s Kamara claims election-related assassination attempt

In Sierra Leone, opposition presidential candidate Samura Kamara was huddled in his office on Sunday while claiming an assassination attempt on his life by security forces who surrounded the building in Freetown. The events followed Saturday’s election in which Kamara, of the All People’s Congress (APC), was the main contender…

Laureen is the editor of Africa Times

DRC postpones elections until December 30

DRC postpones elections until December 30

The head of the national electoral commission (CENI) in Democratic Republic of Congo said Thursday that long-delayed elections scheduled for Sunday are now postponed until December 30. Corneille Nangaa, the CENI president, held a press conference in Kinshasa to explain that for technical and logistic reasons, the contentious elections must…

DRC: Will electoral commission postpone the elections again?

The head of the national electoral commission (CENI) in Democratic Republic of Congo plans a press conference for Thursday amid growing concerns that long-delayed elections could be postponed yet again. Corneille Nangaa, the CENI president, said as recently as Monday that he was confident the elections planned for Sunday would…

Appeal for calm in Guinea as opposition plans new protests

As the political opposition in Guinea plans new protests for next week, the Amnesty International organization has appealed for government forces to show restraint as clashes in the West African nation have become increasingly violent. At least 15 people have died and many more injured since local elections were held…

Kenyatta appeals for unity in victory speech, but Odinga rejects results

President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya has been declared winner of the August 8 presidential election, but opposition candidate Raila Odinga remained adamant that the results are fraudulent and rejected the Independent and Electoral Boundaries Commission (IEBC) announcement late Friday. Kenyatta was declared president-elect with 8,203,290 votes, or 54.27 percent of…