Category: Rest of Africa

According to INEC, Tinubu garnered 8.8 million votes against 6.9 million garnered by opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate Atiku Abubakar while Labour Party's Peter Obi got 6.1 million votes.

Nearly 90 million were eligible to vote on Saturday for a successor to President Muhammadu Buhari, with many hoping a new leader would do a better job tackling insecurity, economic malaise and growing poverty.

Nigeria's ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu took an early lead in the race for the presidency, according to initial tallies on Monday, after a tight election marked by long delays and an opposition walkout over fraud accusations.

While the heat waves have since abated — with many areas recording well over 40 degrees Celsius for several days in succession — the power outages have, if anything, worsened.

But since then, the country has formed a habit of keeping retired heads of state busy in politics campaigning for their preferred successors.

"We have 96 dead and 560 wounded." Ahmed Mohamed Hassan, Director of Las Anod Main Hospital, told AFP by telephone.

Burkina Faso's former leader and anti-colonial icon Thomas Sankara and 12 of his followers were on Thursday buried at the site of their 1987 assassination in Ouagadougou.

The federal government on Thursday directed the total closure of all land borders ahead of Saturday’s presidential poll which is being held concurrently with National Assembly elections.

Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) faces Atiku Abubakar of the main opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and Peter Obi, a wild- card candidate who defected from the PDP to the smaller Labour Party (LP) and now leads in at least five...

With a message that he is the only candidate offering real change, Obi, a wealthy businessman from Southeast Nigeria's Anambra State, has emerged as an unexpectedly powerful force in the race.