Mr Bio’s victory in the first round of Sierra Leone's election, by securing higher than the 55 per cent needed...

Only three women out of the 101 confirmed senators-elect are female, a reduction from the current crop of eight women.

Apart from general elections, Nigeria also plans to conduct a census, its first since 2006.

It is almost impossible for one party to win every election and take total control of the executive and legislative...

However, despite the myriad of factors that might imply the opposite, there is still cause for hope. Millions of Nigerians...

West Africa is also in need of a successful election to counter the prevailing gloom of four attempted coups this...

Tumultuous primaries mean that over half of the federal legislators in the Senate (109) and House of Representatives (360) are...