{"id":15337,"date":"2015-12-30T01:23:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T23:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=15337"},"modified":"2015-12-30T01:32:01","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T23:32:01","slug":"16-african-countries-go-to-polls-in-2016-including-uganda-zambia-drc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2015\/12\/30\/16-african-countries-go-to-polls-in-2016-including-uganda-zambia-drc\/","title":{"rendered":"16 African countries go to polls in 2016: including Uganda, Zambia, DRC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2015 was a busy year for African elections and next year will be no exception.\u00a0January kicks off with Nigeria\u2019s gubernatorial poll, with\u00a0would-be governors battling it out for a stake in the continent\u2019s fastest-growing economy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>JANUARY<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nigeria to hold gubernatorial elections<\/li>\n<li>C.A.R presidential &amp; parliamentary runoff<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>FEBRUARY<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>15 million Ugandans to vote in general election:\u00a0In January Yoweri Museveni will have been in power for 30 years<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Africa-elections-as-autocratic-veneer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Africa-elections-as-autocratic-veneer-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Africa-elections-as-autocratic-veneer\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>APRIL<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Djibouti Presidential poll: unclear if Ismail Omar Guelleh will seek 4th term<\/li>\n<li>Chad\u2019s opposition urging President Idriss Deby not to run<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>SEPTEMBER<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Zambia: Edgar Lungu to seek a first full term<\/li>\n<li>R Congo: President Joseph Kabila may stand down after 15 years in power<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>NORTH AFRICA (Arab Spring Revolution nations)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Egypt to hold local elections<\/li>\n<li>Libya to hold constitutional referendum<\/li>\n<li>Morocco to hold parliamentary poll<\/li>\n<li>Tunisia to hold municipal, regional elections<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015 was a busy year for African elections and next year will be no exception.\u00a0January kicks off with Nigeria\u2019s gubernatorial poll, with\u00a0would-be governors battling it out for a stake in the continent\u2019s fastest-growing economy. JANUARY Nigeria to hold gubernatorial elections C.A.R presidential &amp; parliamentary runoff FEBRUARY 15 million Ugandans to vote in general election:\u00a0In January [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}