CategoriesElections News and ViewsWhere we stand, and why this matters nowWomen’s political participation in Africa is, by the headline numbers, in better shape now than at any prior point in the continent’s democratic history. Women held roughly 27 per cent of seats in Sub-Saharan African parliaments as of early 2025, which makes the region the strongest performer outside […]
CategoriesNews and Views South AfricaThe 2024 elections will be South Africa’s 7th National and Provincial elections marks the year that South Africa celebrates 30 years of democracy. While democracy as a set of social practices appear to be flourishing, the record on the performance of successive dominant party democratic governments with the African National Congress (ANC) at the helm, […]
CategoriesLiberiaAfter many months of campaigning and overcoming financial and institutional challenges, for the successful candidates there is relief that the 10 October elections have concluded. Regrettably, for many women aspirants however, the results of the 2023 elections were not kind. At the voter registration stage, 1,237,257 women registered on the voters’ roll, slightly less than […]
