2025 Elections Monitoring
Women's Political Participation and Election Monitoring in Africa 2015
In the general elections held on 29 October 2025, President Samia Suluhu Hassan was re-elected President of Tanzania, and her party, Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), secured a majority in the legislature. Concurrently, the President and members of the House of Representatives for the semi-autonomous region of Zanzibar were also elected. The polls unfolded against a backdrop of heightened political tension and ultimately resulted in a process that was condemned by domestic and international observers.
General Doumbouya won the presidential elections in Guinea on 28 December 2025. It was the first election since the 2021 coup. Civil society organisations challenged the elections.
On 15 February, 2025, 41 of the 61 members of the Togolese Senate were indirectly elected. The ruling party UNIR secured 34 of the 41 indirectly elected seats. Opposition parties and independents made up the remaining 17 seats. Women made up less than 13% of the members indirectly elected to the new Senate.
The Convention for the Renewal of the Comoros (CRC) won a majority of the seats in the parliamentary elections held on 12 January 2025, securing 31 out of the 33 seats in the Assembly of the Union. The polls were boycotted by an opposition party. Women’s representation in the Assembly of the Union remains low. Following the 2025 election, women hold fewer than one in six seats in the Assembly.