On 25 February, Nigerians will go to the polls to elect the members of the National Assembly (House of Representatives and Senate), and a new president. Two weeks later, they will vote again, for members of the state Houses of Assembly, and in 26 of the states for governors. These will be the seventh elections since the end of military rule in Nigeria in 1999. The presidential
On 31 May 2021, 22 unlocked boxes filled with 7,000 ballots were found on a Genevan pavement just a couple of weeks before an election. It turned out they had been left there, unsupervised, for three days by a postman’s honest mistake. The elections proceeded smoothly, according to schedule. “If that had happened in my. Read More
International IDEA held a technical training on electoral risk management and a knowledge sharing session around International IDEA Election Risk Management (ERM) Tool in preparation for the upcoming election in Sierra Leone. Held in Freetown, the training was facilitated by Sead Alihodzic, Senior Programme Manager, and Erik Asplund, Programme Officer from International IDEA
The Institute for Security Studies (ISS), in collaboration with the Government of Australia, is organizing the seminar "Overcoming electoral challenges in Africa", on Wednesday, 02 November 2022 from10:30-12:300 (EAT). This is a hybrid event with the session at Radisson Blu Hotel, Kazanchis, Addis Ababa and online.
ADDIS ABABA - The COVID-19 pandemic has regressed key aspects of democracy in Africa and the Middle East, including the disruption of electoral processes, restrictions on civil liberties like freedom of expression, and increasing persecution of opposition leaders and parties. The pandemic has hit the region at a time in which the significant advances of democracy in the last decades were coming to a halt.
These are the findings from the
The major challenges brought about by the pandemic involve the management of elections, restrictions on civil liberties, worsening gender equality, deepening social and economic inequalities, disruption to education, deterioration of media integrity, disruption of parliaments and an amplified risk of corruption. These challenges have exacerbated and accelerated long-standing problems in the region.