To achieve more peaceful and credible elections, African countries should ratify the African Union’s (AU) charter on elections and enforce its standards, according to a communiqué from election experts and practitioners from across Africa.

An innovative online mapping tool for analyzing election results data from Afghanistan's Aug. 20 presidential election using demographic, ethnographic, topographic and security information was launched last month by NDI. The tool also identifies areas that had significant electoral irregularities.

Hagamos Democracia, an NDI-partner organization based in Honduras, released a series of reports during the presidential, congressional and municipal elections on Nov. 29 in Honduras. The nonpartisan organization dispatched more than 1,000 election observers to all 18 departments and 283 of the 298 municipal districts.

Hagamos Democracia (HD) monitored the quality of the general election process and also conducted a parallel vote tabulation (PVT or "quick count") using a statistically random sample of polling station results with technical support from NDI.

Those elected in Honduras’ orderly and peaceful Nov. 29 general elections now have the opportunity and responsibility to lead a reconciliation process to overcome the country’s political crisis, a National Democratic Institute (NDI) international election assessment mission said today in a statement.