ABANTU For Development launches project to increase electability opportunities for females in Election 2024
By: Vivian Akua Amoah ABANTU for Development with support from the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) has launched a project with theme “Strengthening Activism for a Gender-Responsive Elections 2024 in Ghana”, launched on the 18th of April 2024 in Accra. The project is intended to increase the effectiveness of citizens actions for an inclusive, credible […]
Election 2024: NPP establishes PWDs secretariat; targets 1.6 million PWDs votes
Source: GNA The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has set up a Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) Secretariat at its Kokomlemle office to provide a meeting space for them in the quest to mobilize more votes ahead of the December 7 polls. The initiative is to enable PWDs within the Party to have a meeting space geared […]
Elections 2024: NCCE speaks against tribal based campaigns
The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) has appealed to political parties and supporters to avoid tribal based campaigns in the upcoming general elections because they are a threat to national unity. The NCCE has therefore encouraged all political parties and their supporters to consider themselves first as one people and as Ghanaians belonging to […]
District Level Election: 83 persons file to contest in Keta
By: Edzorna Francis Mensah About Eighty-Three (83) persons have filed to contest in the Twenty-Two (22) Electoral Areas for upcoming District Level election in the Keta Municipality slated for December 19, 2023. The Electoral Commission in a statement a few weeks ago opened nominations for the District Level Elections and set 19th December, 2023 for the election. This […]
EC ready for start of Limited Voter Registration
The Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC) will register new voters onto the electoral roll ahead of the December 19 District Level Elections from Tuesday, September 12, 2023, to October 2, 2023. The Exercise, which is in accordance with Article 45 of the 1992 Constitution, will take place at the 268 District Offices of the Commission […]
Sierra Leone Elections: Firing of live bullets amidst tallying of votes
Reports say Police in Sierra Leone fired tear gas at the main opposition party’s headquarters as voters awaited the results of a fiercely fought general election. Opposition All People’s Congress (APC) Presidential Candidate, Samura Kamara said on Twitter that live bullets were also fired at his office inside the party headquarters in the capital Freetown. […]
ECOWAS gives $500,000 to support General Elections in Sierra Leone
Dr Omar Alieu Touray, the President of the ECOWAS Commission, has approved the deployment of 95 Election Observers to observe the June 24 Presidential and Parliamentary elections in Sierra Leone. This is in line with provisions of Articles 12 to 14 of the 2001 regional Supplementary Protocol on Democracy and Good Governance on assistance to […]
