
Gambians today are at the polls to choose their leader for the next five years. The country uses the first past-the post system, and the voting...

The Island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe just had peaceful elections in which the incumbent President Manuel Pinto da Costa lost to former Prime Minister...

With just over a year to go before Kenya holds its next general elections, the political climate in the country seems to be reaching a peak.

The euphoria concerning the potential of new technologies to transform society and increase democracy is based on a flawed instrumentalist assumption that technologies by themselves have...

A slew of African countries face upcoming presidential elections, but much still needs to be done to ensure a credible process.