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Public views of China in sub-Saharan countries are overwhelmingly positive, Asia Society survey shows
ACCRA (Reuters) - Public frustration over Ghana's economic travails, including high prices and a dearth of jobs, has dominated the run-up to Saturday's general election, which will likely test the nation's longstanding democratic credentials.
ACCRA (Reuters) - Ghana's main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) party on Tuesday held nationwide protests against alleged voter roll irregularities, demanding an independent forensic audit to rid the register of errors for free and fair elections.
PRESIDENT Alassane Ouattara of Cote d’Ivoire (also known as Ivory Coast) threatens to plunge the world’s largest producer of cocoa into a new cycle of political crises with his decision to run for a controversial fourth term.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africans will vote on Wednesday with widespread anger over power cuts, joblessness and corruption threatening to end the dominance of the African National Congress, thirty years after Nelson Mandela led it into power.
DAKAR (Reuters) - For all the drama and the sometimes violent protests in the run-up to Senegal's presidential election, the former French colony looked set for a peaceful transition of power on Monday - a welcome boost for democracy in coup-prone West Africa.
(Reuters) - Senegal holds a delayed election on March 24 to elect a successor to President Macky Sall, who is stepping down after two terms.
LISBON (Reuters) - Dania Silva is excited to be one of the thousands of Angolans abroad to be voting remotely for the first time in their country's election next week, though she wonders whether her vote will change anything.
LONDON/LUANDA (Reuters) - Angolan voters will choose next Wednesday between a party that's been in power for nearly five decades and its main opponent for even longer, in what looks like the closest ever election in Africa's second-biggest oil producer.
LUANDA (Reuters) - Angolans head to the polls next week in what is likely to be a tense standoff between a ruling party in power for nearly five decades and an opposition with growing appeal to a frustrated, impoverished youth.
LUANDA (Reuters) - Angolan presidential candidates on Monday wrapped up a month-long campaign ahead of this week's election which is likely to be a tense standoff between a ruling party in power for decades and an opposition with growing appeal among youth.
LUANDA (Reuters) -Provisional results on Thursday from ballot counting in Angola's election indicate the ruling party MPLA, in power for nearly five decades, holds a strong lead over the main opposition UNITA, which said the initial outcome was not reliable.
CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinea's main opposition leader said on Tuesday he was open to participating in a transition following a military coup over the weekend, as the soldiers who seized power consolidated their takeover.
