More than 50,000 people have participated in Tunisia's national consultation that will feed into the drafting of a new constitution, authorities said Wednesday.
President Kais Saied had announced the consultation in December when he extended a suspension of parliament, a move which fuelled concerns for the only democracy to have emerged from the Arab Spring uprisings a decade ago.
The consultation will last until March 20.
Pro-democracy groups have begun two days of strikes and civil disobedience in Sudan after at least seven civilians were killed and hundreds injured in clashes during anti-coup demonstrations in the Northeast African country.
Protesters erected barricades across roads in the capital, Khartoum, and some shops and offices were shut as a two-day general strike and civil disobedience campaign began on Tuesday.
Secular political parties threatened with dissolution in Algeria have accused authorities of overseeing an assault on liberties ahead of the third anniversary of the pro-democracy Hirak movement.
The secular opposition party Rally for Culture and Democracy (RCD) received a formal notice on 6 January from the minister of interior, requesting it to cease activities deemed "contrary to regulations."
Somali leaders announced on Sunday they had struck a deal to wrap up parliamentary elections by February 25, after repeated delays that have threatened the stability of the troubled country.
The agreement was reached after several days of talks hosted by Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble with state leaders to try to defuse a bitter political crisis.
On Tuesday, The United Sates ambassador to the UN rejected the five-year transition proposal of the Malian ruling junta.
Colonel Assimi Goïta The head of the Malian junta has found a new opponent to his electoral timetable in the person of the US ambassador to the United Nations.
On Tuesday, some voices were raised within the Security Council, to reject Bamako's plan for a five-year transition before elections.
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — Ninety-four days after Iraqis went to the polls on October 10, government formation talks are continuing apace along sectarian and political factions to determine the country’s president and prime minister following Sunday’s confirmation of its parliamentary speaker.
Somali leaders have agreed to conclude the long-delayed parliamentary and presidential elections by February 25, 2022. Somalia's international partners welcomed the deal made on January 10, 2022 but a political stand-off between the president and prime minister still has some Somalis skeptical.
Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has resigned after another day of mass protests rocked the capital Khartoum.
Du 1er janvier au 20 mars 2022, les Tunisiens s’exprimeront sur les réformes qu’ils souhaitent voir advenir dans leur pays, à travers une « consultation populaire » numérique.
Lebanon’s Interior Ministry announced on Monday that its 2022 parliamentary elections would be held on May 15, rather than the previously set date of 27 March.
The decree still needs Lebanese President Michel Aoun and PM Najib Mikati’s signature before it goes into force.
The 2022 elections will be the country’s first since its 2019 uprising, when tens of thousands of people took to the street to demand an end to the corrupt governance that has characterized the country for decades.
National elections were scheduled to take place in Libya on December 24. However, the electoral committee has now been dissolved.
It could have been the most important day in Libya this year. The UN-led peace process should have culminated in national elections on December 24.
TRIPOLI, Libya
Libya's High Council of State proposed on Wednesday postponing the presidential elections until February.
ALGER - Le taux de participation national au scrutin de l'élection des membres des Assemblées populaires communales a atteint 35,97% et 34,39% pour l'élection des Assemblées populaires de wilaya (APW) à la clôture des urnes à 20h00, a annoncé samedi soir le président de l'Autorité nationale indépendante des élections (ANIE), Mohamed Charfi.
Son of former ruler among 25 of the 98 registered presidential candidates disqualified from running in the December 24 election.
Libya’s election commission has said Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of former ruler Muammar Gaddafi, was ineligible to run in the country’s planned presidential election in December.
Gaddafi was one of 25 candidates disqualified by the commission on Wednesday, in an initial decision pending an appeals process that will ultimately be decided by the judiciary. Some 98 Libyans had registered as candidates.
With one month left until elections in Libya, it is important that the international community remains united in support of the process, UN Special Envoy Ján Kubiš told the Security Council on Wednesday.
The eastern military commander, backed by Russia, Egypt and the UAE, is a divisive figure, despised by many in western Libya.
Eastern military commander Khalifa Haftar will run in Libya’s presidential elections due next month, he announced in a televised speech.
“Elections are the only way out of the severe crisis that our country has plunged into,” said Haftar, who was expected to formally register later on Tuesday at the election centre in Benghazi.
The son of Libya's late leader Muammar al-Gaddafi has registered as a candidate in the country's first direct presidential election next month.
Le quotidien "El Moudjahid" consacre un dossier au début de la campagne électorale qu'il considère comme une "opportunité pour un débat fécond et démocratique" en relevant que la majorité des candidats soient "jeunes et diplômés des universités" et qu'il devront "convaincre par un discours plus réaliste" pour arriver à la gestion des communes, "première molécule de l'Etat de droit".
