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Elections in Africa

Collected by: University of Michigan Library

Archived since: Feb, 2020

Description:

This collection captures online activities associated with electioneering in Africa. Web accounts associated with elections in Africa provide a rich platform for capturing events as they occur in their regions. The various sources ranging from professional journalism to freelance authorship and from partisan political parties to activism make the medium a rich resource. Nonetheless, much of Web activities emerge in the periods preceding elections and fizzle out or disappear altogether after elections. This archive attempts to maintain a record of these momentous activities across a continent that is undergoing extraordinary changes nearly a century after the wave of independence swept across the nations. Since the dawn of independence in the middle of the twentieth century, African countries have gone through varying degrees of democratic freedom ranging from single-party rules to military takeovers, rapid successions, and failed states. This archive is dedicated to capturing these events as they unfold.

Subject:   Politics & Elections

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Title: Elections will be tricky, but Burkina Faso has an even bigger problem

URL: https://africanarguments.org/2020/11/elections-will-be-tricky-but-burkina-faso-has-an-even-bigger-problem/

Description: African Arguments is a pan-African platform for news, investigation and opinion.

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Subject:   Politics, Elections

Title: Tanzania: How Magufuli Has Steered Tanzania Down the Road of an Authoritarian One-Party State

URL: https://allafrica.com/stories/202011150191.html

Description: Independent analysis from a Kenyan scholar. This article is republished from The Conversation Africa under a Creative Commons license.

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Subject:   Politics, Elections

Title: Allied Peoples' Movement

URL: https://apm.org.ng

Description: "The Allied Peoples’ Movement (APM) is truly a political party that has come to offer Nigerians real change and new direction in the governance of Nigeria."

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Title: Somalia's Delayed Election and an Elusive Quest for Democracy

URL: https://blogging.africa/democracy/somalias-delayed-election-and-an-elusive-quest-for-democracy/

Description: Blog post on Somalia's electoral system and the postponed 2022 election by author who has written for several African publications on regional politics.

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Subject:   Politics Elections

Title: The Electoral Commission of Ghana

URL: https://ec.gov.gh

Description: The mission of the Electoral Commission is to advance the course of democracy and good governance of Ghana by institutionalizing free, fair and transparent elections.

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Subject:   Politics, Elections

Title: Labour Party (LP) - Nigeria

URL: https://labourparty.com.ng

Description: "Labour Party, formerly known as Party for Social Democracy (PSD) is one of the parties registered by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)."

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Title: Tanzania - Minbane

URL: https://minbane.wordpress.com/tag/tanzania/

Description: A blog that dates from 2011 which focuses on African politics including on the 2020 Tanzanian elections. Recopilates numerous press releases from Tanzanian/regional NGO's and political parties which are largely found on disperse social media accounts. Blog posts tagged under Tanzania were preserved.

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Subject:   Politics, Elections

Title: New Patriotic Party

URL: https://newpatrioticparty.org

Description: Official website of The New Patriotic Party (NPP) is a centre-right and liberal conservative political party in Ghana. Since the democratization of Ghana in 1992, it has been one of the two dominant parties in Ghana politics. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the party's leader, is currently the President of Ghana.

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Subject:   Politics, Elections

Title: New Nigeria People's Party (NNPP)

URL: https://nnpp.net.ng

Description: "The New Nigeria People's Party (NNPP) is a people-oriented mass movement Party, with structures spread across the length and breadth of Nigeria and in diaspora. It took part in all the elections during the 2023 General Elections and came fourth, winning seats both in the Executive and legislature."

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Title: The Peacemakers Network — Libya, collaborates with the Italian NGO — Agency for Peacebuilding — to comment on Libya's postponed elections

URL: https://peacefulchange.org/the-peacemakers-network-libya-collaborates-with-the-italian-ngo-agency-for-peacebuilding-to-comment-on-libyas-postponed-elections/

Description: Communications update on the Peacemakers Network, a Libyan NGO, who collaborated with an international human rights group to push for the implementation of elections that were delayed from December 2021.

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Subject:   Politics Elections

Title: Official Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) – Nigeria

URL: https://peoplesdemocraticparty.com.ng

Description: The Peoples Democratic party ended military rule in 1999 with the election of their presidetial candidate, Olusegon Obasanjo. He had recently been released as a political prisoner.

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Title: The Senate of Somalia

URL: https://senate.gov.so

Description: Official website of the Somali Senate, including members, bills and laws, as well as the committee page which might later include the newly appointed electoral committee.

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Subject:   Politics Elections

Title: My Right, My Vote

URL: https://tipahya.herokuapp.com

Description: Founded by the non-governmental organization Penplusbytes, the mission of My Right, My Vote is to enhance grassroots civic participation via digital tools.

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Subject:   Politics, Elections

Title: United Democratic Party

URL: https://udp.gm

Description: Official website of center/center-left political party that now holds the second-most seats in parliament as of the April 9, 2022 election. Website has links to social media platforms with more recent news updates, but also has one press release in 2022 prior to elections.

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Subject:   Politics Elections

Title: 4th Extraordinary Summit of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government on the Piolitical Situation in Mali

URL: https://www.ecowas.int/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Final-Communique-on-Summit-on-Mali-Eng-080122.pdf

Description: Official report from the Economic Community of West African States on Ghana summit in which they condemn the Transitional Government's new proposed ruling timeline, including the delay of presidential election organization until 2025.

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Subject:   Politics Elections

Title: The 2022 Somaliland Elections: A Periodically Election Report from the Somaliland Election Monitoring Office

URL: https://www.horndiplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/THE-FINAL-ELECTION-MONITORING-REPORT-OF-2022-1.pdf

Description: Monitoring report from independent thinktank concentrating in analysis of "peace, democracy, human rights and effective governance systems" in countries within the Horn of Africa. Report outlines the significance of Somaliland elections in 2022, including presidential and the inaugural Guurti elections.

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Subject:   Politics Elections

Title: The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Nigeria

URL: https://www.inecnigeria.org

Description: "The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was established by the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to among other things organize elections into various political offices in the country."

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Title: Official website of John Dramani Mahama

URL: https://www.johnmahama.org

Description: John Dramani Mahama, former President of Ghana up until 2017, he is currently the candidate and leader of The National Democratic Congress (NDC).

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Subject:   Politics, Elections

Title: National Council for Civic Education (NCCE)

URL: https://www.ncce.gm/home/

Description: Website for autonomous constitutionally-mandated body responsible for civic education and informing the Gambian populace on national electoral procedures. Includes frequent updates on organization activity, including those addressing the April 9, 2022, elections.

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Subject:   Politics Elections

Title: The National Democratic Congress

URL: https://www.ndc.org.gh

Description: Official website of The National Democratic Congress (NDC) a social democratic and current opposition political party in Ghana.

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Subject:   Politics, Elections

Title: Young Progressives Party

URL: https://ypp.ng

Description: "Young Progressives Party was formed in line with the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended), founded by people of like-minds upon social democratic principles and inclusive governance, to provide a veritable platform for all Nigerians irrespective of tribe and religion."

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