Tunisia holds landmark election

Tunisia is set to hold its first presidential election since the 2011 "Arab Spring" revolution that triggered uprisings across the region.

Elections are being held in Burundi despite an opposition boycott and weeks of protest over President Pierre Nkurunziza's plan to seek a third term.

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Ruling party holds lead in Tanzania election
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Supporters of the opposition Chadema party celebrate outside a polling station in Dar es Salaam after the National Electoral Commission declared Chadema's candidate Halima Mdee winner of the Kawe parliamentary seat during the general elections on ...

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Constituent Assembly hits snag, holds repeat election
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Constituent Assembly members attend the first session of their 70-day meeting in Dodoma yesterday. (Photo: Selemani Mpochi). Members of the Constituent Assembly (CA) were yesterday forced to repeat the election of its Interim Chairman after the first votes ...
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Tunisia is set to hold its first election under a new constitution passed earlier this year following a 2011 uprising.

Hackers briefly disrupt online voter registration for elections in Tunisia later this year, the election commission says.

China publicly destroys 6.1 tonnes of confiscated ivory in a move to discourage the illegal ivory trade, which conservationists say fuels poaching in Africa.

The doctor and father of a 13-year-old who died after allegedly undergoing female genital mutilation are cleared in a landmark trial in Egypt.

Asking whether it’s proper to salute the person who coined the proverb that ‘mountains don’t meet but people do’ as wise may sound stupid.