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From this Wednesday, October 14, until October 20, Ivorians registered to vote will be able to collect their ballot papers at their polling station. 17 days before the presidential election, the election commission says it is "ready". The opposition, which called for civil disobedience, has not yet launched its exact slogans, and its two candidates doubt their participation if the election actually takes place. as reported from Abidjan, As of this Wednesday, 7.5 million registered voters can theoretically go to the…

When voters in Guinea go to the polls on Sunday, they should select from 12 presidential candidates, together with the incumbent Alpha Condé. Whereas the 82-year-old president's supporters are assured of a victory, so is his primary opponent, Cellou Dalein Diallo. FRANCE 24 report Malick Diakité, Elimane Ndao and Emmanuelle Landais. .

In Côte d'Ivoire, the official presidential election marketing campaign begins on October 15 and ends on October 29, however already it's the ruling social gathering or opposition formations that arrange conferences, public conferences, funding ceremonies and different political gatherings. . On the coronary heart of those…

The headquarters of the political parties in Chad are discussing how the two upcoming elections will be organized. Should we combine the presidential and legislative elections or organize them separately, as has always been the case in Chad? The issue of linking the presidential election to the legislative election is an old debate, but it came back a few weeks ago during a meeting between the Independent National Electoral Commission (Céni), the national framework for political dialogue and the head of state.…

For several months, Somalia tore itself apart over the organization of the parliamentary and presidential elections. As the country became more and more unstable, agreement was reached two weeks ago on a new election model, and the government released the timetable for the upcoming election. as reported from Nairobi, Sebastien…

This Thursday, October 1, marked the launch of the Cocoa Campaign 2020-2021 in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana. It was also this Thursday that the launch took place in Yamoussoukro of the National Cocoa and Chocolate Days, an annual meeting marking the start of the season. The possibility for Alassane Ouattara, president of the world's largest cocoa producer with 2 million tonnes a year, to announce a sharp rise in the price of the plants just less than a month before the presidential election. Côte d'Ivoire is the world's…

Let's go to the submission of candidacies for the presidential election on November 22nd. The declared candidates have until 2 October to present themselves to the Independent National Electoral Commission (Céni) with their case file. However, some candidates face conditions for running that they consider "discriminatory". It is the school and university board adviser Issa Sawadogo, independent graduate, who was received first with her case file. An incomplete file because it was unable to collect either the sum of…

Ivory Coast Constitutional Court ruled last week that only four out of 44 presidential hopefuls would be allowed to run in the country's presidential election. Because they face criminal convictions, former President Laurent Gbagbo and former rebel leader Guillaume Soro, both giants of Ivorian politics, were among those prevented from running. Most of the others whose candidates were deemed invalid had failed to garner sufficient public support - a new electoral reform required candidates to request signatures from at…

Ivory Coast's head of state, Alassane Ouattara, has blown up two rivals' attempt to challenge next month's presidential election as "provocation", saying one of them is behind bars. In an interview published Thursday by the French magazine Paris Match, the 78-year-old sitting fired a verbal breadth against former President Laurent Gbagbo and former rebel leader Guillaume Soro. Both men live outside the country, but retain strong support at home, in a country still scarred by a post-election conflict that claimed more…