Hello readers, today we would be taking a look at the 3 elections that shook Africa in the year 2020.

Elections have been completed in 3 nations this year in Africa and they are Togo, Malawi, and Burundi and they all shook Africa in one manner or the other.

We will be beginning with Togo

1.Togo
Presidential elections were held in Togo on 22 February 2020. Incubemt president Faure Gnassingbé of the Union for the Republic (UPR) was reappointed for his fourth term with 71% of the vote in the first round. His nearest challenger was Agbéyomé Kodjo, a former executive and pioneer of the recently settled Patriotic Movement for Democracy and Development, who got 19% of the vote.

Faure Gnassingbé in spite of being in sit since 2005. The time had come to step down in 2020 yet before then Constitutional changes were endorsed a year ago permitting him to look for re-appointment and conceivably remain in office until 2030 – an issue which started immense fights in 2017-18.

Faure Gnassingbé won re-election in the midst of fraud protests.

2. Burundi
General elections were held in Burundi on 20 May 2020 to choose both the president and the National Assembly.

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