Tag: Election
Burkina Faso’s incumbent president wins election
Burkina Faso's incumbent president Roch Marc Christian Kabore has won the November 22 presidential election and secured a second term of office, provisional results...
Manual on election adjudication launched
Chief Justice Anin Yeboah on Tuesday launched the fourth edition of the Manual on Election Adjudication to address electoral issues that might arise from...
Trump campaign Drops lawyer who promoted election conspiracy theories
The Trump campaign on Sunday distanced itself from lawyer Sidney Powell, who while being part of its legal team promoted conspiracy theories and falsely...
Let’s defend our prevailing peace – Mr Stevens
Mr Siaka Stevens, the Deputy Bono Regional Minister, has urged Ghanaians to uphold and defend the prevailing peace of the nation to facilitate a...
Profile: Mr Greenstreet, CPP Election 2020 Presidential Candidate
Mr Ivor Kobina Greenstreet, is a lawyer, called to the Ghana Bar and the English Bar (Inner Temple) as well as a publisher and...
Trump fires U.S. top cybersecurity official over election security statement
U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted on Tuesday that Chris Krebs has been terminated as director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)...
Stakeholders in Effutu to protect the peace of the area during election
Stakeholders in the development and peace Effutu Municipality have given assurance that they will work assiduously to protect the peace, tranquility, and cohesion that...
Pence cancels holiday to help Trump effort to overturn election
US Vice President Mike Pence scrapped plans for a Florida vacation so he could help lead President Donald Trump's effort to overturn president-elect Joe...
A day late, Saudi leaders congratulate Biden on election win
Saudi King Salman and his son Crown Prince Mohammed, strong allies of US President Donald Trump, have congratulated his rival on his election win,...
Italy’s Berlusconi: Being too arrogant cost Trump the election
Donald Trump lost the US presidential election by being too aggressive and too arrogant, former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi suggested Sunday.
"I think that in...
Polls open in Myanmar’s ‘fundamentally flawed’ election
Polls are to open on Sunday morning in Myanmar's second election since it emerged from outright military dictatorship, with Aung San Suu Kyi...
Joe Biden: The Democrat aiming to unseat the president
Joe Biden spent most of his life serving in Washington, as a senator from the Democratic Party and vice president under Barack Obama.
However, attempts...
Tanzania’s president-elect Magufuli receives certificate of victory
Tanzania's President-elect John Magufuli on Sunday pledged to work hard after he was re-elected.
"The landslide victory given to me in the elections by Tanzanians...
2020 U.S. election spending tops nearly 14 bln, more than previous two election cycles...
The total cost of the 2020 U.S. election, including presidential and congressional, will near 14 billion U.S. dollars, a sum more than what was...
Fears of contested election loom in US amid mail-in ballot surge
November 3 is Election Day in the US, but this year the real focus is on what might happen after Tuesday's vote.
The surge in...
Burkina Faso’s president voices concerns about unrest in Cote d’Ivoire ahead of election
Burkina Faso's president voiced concerns about the unrest in the run-up to the presidential election in Cote d'Ivoire, in an interview broadcasted Sunday by...
UN mission praises election of municipal councils in western Libya
The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) on Monday praised election of municipal councils in four western Libyan towns.
"UNSMIL congratulates the citizens...
Voter apathy to triumph in Egypt’s parliamentary elections
Egypt is set to hold its parliamentary polls later this month to elect 568 lawmakers for a five-year term, more than two months after...
Women must participate in election processes-NCCE
Mr Richard Asilevi, Kpando Municipal Director, National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), has called for the active involvement of women in the country’s electoral...
Commit to peace and foster togetherness – Clergyman
Stakeholders in the electoral process have been advised to commit to peace and foster togetherness in the country before, during and after the general...
Trump refuses to commit to peaceful power transfer if he loses election
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power should he lose this year's presidential race, while...
Our national development agenda is shorthanded by party manifestos – Dr. Vladimir Antwi-Danso
An international relations expert and the director of academics at the Ghana Armed Forces command and staff college, Dr. Vladimir Antwi-Danso has observed with...
Exorbitant filing fees meant to weed out “frivolous aspirants”
Mr Kwesi Jonah, a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Democratic Governance (IDEG) has waded into the debate over the GHc100, 000 filing...
Could mountains of mail-in ballots spark U.S. election chaos?
by Matthew Rusling
This election year could well see the largest number of mail-in ballots in recent memory, and...
Ghana EC to exhibit provisional voters’ register for general election
Ghana's Electoral Commission (EC) will exhibit the 2020 provisional voters' register from Sept. 18 to 25, ahead of the general election in December, the...
Ugandan president says detained minister to be prosecuted over election violence
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Monday said a minister who was detained by police over the weekend will be prosecuted over the election...
Tanzanian radio station banned over release of unauthorized election statistics
The Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) on Thursday banned a privately-owned radio and television station for seven days after it reported unauthorized election statistics.
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Somali leaders reach agreement on election model
Somali President Mohamed Farmajo and three regional leaders have agreed on a new election model for the 2020/21 polls, which is seen as crucial...
Mali president resigns after military coup
Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita announced his resignation on live television in the early hours of Wednesday morning following a military coup.
"I've decided to...
New Zealand delays general election until October over new outbreak
New Zealand will delay its general election by a month as the country grapples with a second outbreak of Covid-19, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern...