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Africa Elections 2025: All the upcoming votes
Last updated: 7 January 2025 How to use the map This elections map shows you all the upcoming votes. Move around and click to find out more. The colour tells you approximately when the election is: Red – This month Orange – Next month Yellow – In two months Green – Beyond that The icon tells you who is up for election: Upcoming Africa elections: A list Here are the upcoming elections in list form. Some dates are not yet decided and/or liable to change.
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There are huge profits to be made in exploiting South Africa’s natural resources. But these come at a cost to society and the environment. South Africa needs an environment minister who will stand up for people who are threatened by pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, and the depletion of non-renewable resources. That includes both the country’s Black and low-income communities, who are disproportionately impacted, and future generations. Yet Dion George, the new minister, doesn’t inspire hope.
I was the first African to receive the Goethe Medal. I just gave it back
My name is Zukiswa Wanner. I am a writer, editor, publisher and curator who considers the African continent my home. In 2020, I became the first woman on my continent to receive the Goethe Medal alongside Bolivian artist and museum director Elvira Espejo Ayca and British writer Ian McEwan.
Eritrea: My grandmother died heart-broken but never defeated
My grandmother Roma Solomon died heartbroken. She died grieving her son, Seyoum, who had been disappeared by the regime for twenty years. She died grieving her country, Eritrea, that had been destroyed by the comrades she had fought with and trusted. On the one-year anniversary of her death, her heartbreak continues to haunt me. My grandmother deserved better. She had been a model patriot her entire life.
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Sonko’s legal problems, which appear engineered to frustrate his presidential bid, could well push the country back into the street. On May 8, 2023, a Dakar appeal court found Ousmane Sonko, the most vocal opponent to President Macky Sall’s regime, guilty of defamation and public insult, thus seriously jeopardizing his chance to run for the 2024 presidential election.
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While Rwandan troops have helped stabilise the Cabo Delgado conflict, some are concerned by the lack of transparency around their involvement. President Paul Kagame of Rwanda welcomes President Filipe Nyusi of Mozambique to Rwanda for a state visit in 2018. Credit: Paul Kagame.
Smuggling in fuel to fill demand in one of Africa's biggest oil-producers - African Arguments
Driving the 3 km from Bambui to Bamenda in Cameroon’s North West region, one would be forgiven for thinking the area is big on artisanal oil mining. This region is close the country’s big oil-producing zone, and plastic fuel containers line both sides of the road, attracting a steady flow of customers. This petrol on sale, however, is not from the area. In fact, it’s not from Cameroon at all. Known as “Funge” or “Zoa Zoa”, it has been illegally smuggled from Nigeria.
In the shadow of genocides past: can Burundi be pulled back from the brink?
Rather than the Rwandan genocide, it is the 1972 genocide of Hutu in Burundi that suggests itself as the most meaningful frame of reference for an understanding of the present crisis. President Pierre Nkurunziza on a visit to South Africa in 2014. Credit: DOC. “Can national dialogue break the power of terror in Burundi?” This key question addressed by participants to an international conference held in Bujumbura in May 1994, days after the Rwandan bloodbath, has lost none of its pertinence.
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