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L'ancien président de la transition du Mali, Dioncounda Traoré est attendu par certains comme candidat à la présidentielle de 2018. Mais le principal intéressé ne semble pas déterminé.

Convaincus que lui seul peut mettre tout le monde d’accord, certains pressent Dioncounda Traoré de se présenter. Le 21 mars, ils ont déposé un dossier de candidature à son nom. Mais l’intéressé en a-t-il vraiment envie ? À 76 ans passés, l’ancien président de la transition (2012-2013) se mure dans le silence.

Pour l’instant, on dénombre  plus de trois fronts anti IBK et tous  prônent l’alternance en 2018. Il y a d’abord l’opposition classique composée de Soumaila Cissé, Modibo Sidibé, Tiébilé Dramé, Amadou Thiam, Mamadou Sidibé, Oumar Mariko et Nouhoum Togo. Ensuite, celles sorties des flancs de la Convention de la Majorité, qui sont au nombre de deux dont les têtes de proues sont Moussa Mara et Mountaga Tall. Tous ces fragments de l’Opposition n’ont comme objectif ultime que de réaliser l’alternance le 29 juillet 2018.

The Administrative Court and its regional chambers finished off reviewing appeals and rendered their final verdicts in the electoral disputes related to the municipal elections set for May 6.

According to a press release issued on Monday by the administrative court, some 25 legal challenges were reviewed by this court, divided as follows:

- Seven legal challenges lodged by party lists

- Nine by independent lists

- Three by coalition lists

- Six by electoral authority

En annonçant qu’il ne briguerait pas sa succession en 2019, le président mauritanien Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz a pris de court la majorité comme l’opposition. Et ouvert le jeu politique.

The Sudanese President Omer al-Bashir on Monday said the opposition parties within the Sudan Call must choose between their alliance with the armed movements or the civic action.

In a four-day meeting held in the French capital Paris, the Sudan Call picked Sadiq al-Mahdi, the leader of the National Umma Party as the chairman of the opposition umbrella. The meeting also chose Sudan Liberation Movement leader, Minni Minnawi, as a secretary general of the coalition which encompasses political and armed groups.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has been re-elected with 97 percent of votes, the same proportion that the former military commander secured four years ago for his first term but with a lower turnout, official results showed on Monday.

Turnout was 41 percent, despite efforts to get as many Egyptians as possible to polling stations during last week’s vote. Sisi had been virtually guaranteed a landslide win, confirmed by early tallies as voting ended on Wednesday.

Sudan’s ruling National Congress Party (NCP) on Sunday said arrangements are underway to hold discussions with all political forces over the permanent constitution.

The semi-official Sudan Media Center (SMC) has quoted the NCP political secretary Omer Basan as saying all political forces, not only the ruling party, must participate in the constitution-making process.

“The constitution must be a product of political consensus and agreement in order to overcome a lot of problems and challenges facing the country,” he said

The High National Elections Commission (HNEC) proposed to have multi-polling centers' system instead of the single-polling system.

"The coming presidential elections will be the first in Libya so there will be no organizational experience in the country. We thus want to save the country the burden of presidential campaigns that will be very difficult to conduct in the vast area of Libya." HNEC said in a statement on Saturday.