Senegal’s president has blinked in the face of riots in the capital Dakar and withdrawn a proposed change to the country’s electoral law. The 85-year-old Abdoulaye Wade, in power for the last 11 years, is maintaining a reform creating the post of vice-president, which some fear is tailor-made for his son Karim, so he can [...]
Read More backs, down, electoral, Over, reform, WadeLAGOS (Reuters) – The choice of a respected Nigerian academic to head the electoral commission and organise polls due by next April met with cautious optimism from political parties on Wednesday, but many said deeper reforms were needed fast.
Read More Commission., electoral, nigerian, optimism, parties, political, result, reuters, topnews, wednesdayCreated in almost all of the sub-Saharan African countries, the independent electoral commissions have played a major role in the electoral processes of African.
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