http://www.france24.com/en/20120103-popular-singer-youssou-ndour-challenge-abdoulaye-wade-senegal-president

World-renowned Senegalese singer Youssou Ndour announced Monday night that he was running for president against incumbent Abdoulaye Wade in February 26 elections. “I am a candidate,” the country’s most famous export declared on his privately-owned television station after weeks of speculation about his plans. “I have listened, I have heard, and I am responding favourably,” Ndour said, referring to numerous requests that he throw his hat into the political ring.

Islamists set to dominate Egypt legislature as initial vote results emerge – Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News.

Initial results of Egypt’s first free election in six decades will emerge on Thursday, with Islamist parties expecting to command a majority in parliament, hard on the heels of victories by their counterparts in Tunisia and Morocco.

Initial Reports on Congo Elections Discouraging.

Voting in Congo’s national elections started yesterday and will likely last several more days. Because of the many offices to be filled, including the presidency, The New York Times describes the ballot as “thick as a newspaper.” Not surprising, as the BBC reports, there are eleven presidential candidates, more than nineteen thousand candidates vying for the five hundred Assembly seats and other offices.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201111281469.html

In a preliminary statement issued at a press conference held at the Mission’s office in Senegambia Beach Hotel, Kololi, the mission team led by Dr. Fonkam Samuel Azu’u, the chairman of the Cameroonian Independent Electoral Commission declared that the presidential elections in the Republic of The Gambia was also conducted in accordance with the Durban Declaration on the principles governing democratic elections in Africa as adopted by the Assembly of the African Union in July 2002.

…In conclusion, the AU Observer Mission consequently wishes to declare that the 24th November, 2011 Presidential Elections in Republic of The Gambia were conducted in such a way that the results are a true reflection of the will of the sovereign people of The Gambia.

Muslim Brotherhood sure of election victory in Egypt as Tahrir unrest lingers – Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News.

Muslim Brotherhood sure of election victory in Egypt as Tahrir unrest lingers

The army and the interim government continue to prepare for Monday’s first round of parliamentary elections, which threaten to split the opposition.