A prominent opponent of the Rwandan president, Paul Kagame, has been barred from standing in next month’s election to challenge his three-decade rule. Diane Rwigara, the leader of the People Salvation Movement, who was also barred in 2017, launched her election bid in May and submitted her candidacy last week. Her name was...
The President of the Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik said that a referendum on the independence of the Republika Srpska from Bosnia and Herzegovina will be held, and its date has yet to be determined....
The BBC's Quentin Sommerville spent a month with revolutionary forces at jungle bases and on front lines in Myanmar....Two loudspeakers, as big as the men carrying them, are brought to the rocky hilltop. Some 800m below, in the town of Hpasang, lies a sprawling Myanmar army base....
Panamanians are voting in a general election which has been overshadowed by the disqualification of the man who was leading in the polls. Ex-President Ricardo Martinelli was the favourite to win until he was banned from running after being found guilty of money laundering....
The general election is the largest democratic exercise ever - almost one in eight people in the world can vote. On 19 April, Indians will begin choosing a new parliament for the next five years, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks a third consecutive term.
Joe Cunningham says ‘I would vote for Biden over Trump’ after third-party group dropped effort to run own candidate
The vast majority of Americans believe democracy, despite its problems, is the best system of government. But a nationwide poll from Florida Atlantic University shows that far fewer younger voters …
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A majority of Nikki Haley supporters say it would be nearly impossible for Donald Trump to win against Joe Biden, given his legal challenges.
Resistance to his candidacy is not futile.
Colorado and Maine, which blocked former President Donald J. Trump from the ballot, have grappled with the harassment of officials.
Fog of January...
Republican county supervisors Tom Crosby and Peggy Judd initially refused to certify their county’s election results...
The alternatives will undoubtedly be worse
Dr Omar Alieu Touray, President of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission, has approved the deployment of 15-member Long-Term Election Observers (LTOs) to monitor key stages in the upcoming general election in Liberia. ...
A judge says that a Florida redistricting plan pushed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis violates the state constitution.
Democracy in the West is “rule not by the majority, but by the minority,” says the chair of Russia’s Central Election Commission Ella Pamfilova. She adds that Russia doesn’t need democracy in the Westerns sense of the word.
After Trump’s indictments, can America protect the peaceful transfer of power?
The video was filmed before the election results had even been announced.
A video obtained by MSNBC shows former Trump advisor Roger Stone laying out a plan to subvert the Electoral College before the election was even called
At least 20 people were wounded when police used batons, water cannon and tear gas to disperse hundreds of people who joined rallies in Indonesia’s West Papua region on the 61st anniversary of an agreement that made the territory part of Indonesia, news agencies report....
Trump—already charged in New York, Florida, and D.C.—now appears to be facing an indictment in Georgia.
They argue that universal values are the new imperialism, imposed on people who want security and stability instead. Here is why they are wrong.
Nelson Chamisa is a 45-year-old lawyer and pastor who is planning to take on Emerson Mnangagwa at Zimbabwe's elections next month. His party says the government has tried to stop more than 90 of its rallies.
Voters will likely be asked to support expanding the City Council. The question is how big and how bold that change should be.
