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The Gorée Institute is the ACE Regional Centre for West Africa.

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Scope of countries

For specific information on individual countries, please visit the country pages below

·         Benin

·         Burkina Faso

·         Cape Verde

·         Côte D’Ivoire

·         Gambia

·         Ghana

·         Guinea

·         Guinea-Bissau

·         Liberia

·         Mali

·         Niger

·         Nigeria

·         Senegal

·         Sierra Leone

·         Togo

 


 


 




 

Welcome to the Regional Centre page for the region of Western Africa. This page is facilitated by Goree Institute, an associated member of the ACE network. Here you will find updated information about the region, such as electoral news, case studies and election-related links. To access this material, use the menus to the right. If you need information about other regions, select another Regional Centre from the drop-down menu on the left side.

 

Regional events

 

SENEGAL |  BRIDGE Training For West African Civil Society Organisations

 March 23-27, 2009

Gorée Institute will organise a BRIDGE training for West African CSOs working in electoral processes from March 23rd 2009 to March 27th 2009. This five day training is organised with the support of the United Nations Democracy Fund and International IDEA. Participants are from various West African countries: Senegal, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana, The Gambia. The training will be in English. Read More.


Trends and key issues in West Africa

 

- Guinea - Project of law establishing a  new Idependent Electoral commission adopted by all stakeholders

On october 17th 2007, all stakeholders adopted the project of law establishing a new IEC, in order to have transparent and fair elections.

- Cautions in Senegalese elections

During the 2007 elections in Senegal, it was mandatory for candidates to pay a caution of 25 000 000 FCFA (38,112 euros) in order to run for presidential elections. The caution for parliamentary elections was 15 000 000 FCFA (22,867) to be paid by the political parties. These cautions were reimbursed upon having 5 per cent of the total votes.

- Participation rates in elections are decreasing

(i.e. Benin, Mali, Burkina, Senegal) says François Soudan.

- Many elections are characterized by a massive boycott

- Should voting be compulsory or not?

President Abdoulaye Wade of Sénégal states :"making voting compulsory is not an option we want to take, but the citizens must know that every citizen must vote."

- Electoral reform is being initiated in Nigeria.

A panel has been appointed by the president to conduct electoral reform.

 

Regional Election Spotlight

 

 

Forthcoming elections



 

SENEGAL |  Local Government Elections

March 22nd, 2009

Senegal heads to the polls on March 22 for its Local Government Elections. There are 4.8 million registered voters and close to 550 constituencies. Read More

 

 

 

 

 


 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 Recent elections

 

TOGO |  Legislative

October 14, 2007

The legislative elections in Togo saw the victory of the ruling party. Overall, stakeholders have agreed that the vote was well organised. Here

 

 

SIERRA LEONE |General elections

September 8, 2007

SECOND ROUND RUN OFFs in Presidential

It's official !!Ernest Bai Koroma has won the presidential election and led the All People's Congress to power in Sierra Leone.Here

The opposition wins the August 11 parliamentary elections.The final results of the parliamentary elections have been published by the NEC. SLPP wins 43 seats, APC wins 59 seats, PMDC wins 10 seats. The other political parties win no seats. Find out more about the parliamentary elections. Here

 

Mali | legislative 2nd round

July 22, 2007

Information about the Mali election will be found.Here

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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