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The general election held on May 5, 2010, in Mauritius is indicative of the island's vibrant and democratic political landscape. In a system that is dominated by coalition and alliance politics,...
One of the most historic countries in Africa, Ethiopia is the only African country considered to have escaped European colonisation. Despite a brief Italian occupation during World War Two, in what...
Incumbent President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, current head of the National Congress Party (NCP), has won Sudan's first multiparty election in 24 years. Despite claims by the opposition of fraud and...
Between April 11 and April 13, 2010, Sudan will hold its first multiparty election in 24 years. The election date, stipulated in the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) that ended some 25...
In a country where election violence is commonplace, West African Togo held Presidential elections on March 4, 2010, amid fears that they might trigger violence, similar to that of the 2005...
The inception of a Togolese republic in 1961 was preceded by a turbulent history, which first gained prominence through the region being a major European raiding centre in the search for slaves....
The islands of São Tomé and Príncipe are situated in the equatorial Atlantic region off the north-west coast of Gabon. The two islands consist of land on an extinct volcanic mountain range. The...
The latter part of the twentieth century represents a violent and bloody chapter in the Côte d'Ivoire's history. After the relative stability experienced during the long-serving Felix...