The last few months have seen a period of relatively peaceful protest in North African countries Algeria and Sudan following the downfall of autocratic leaders Abdelaziz Bouteflika and Omar al-Bashir who had ruled for twenty […]
Israel hit the news earlier this month for its hosting of the Eurovision Song Contest, which showcased one face of the country. But even more recently, its politics has become a festival of high drama […]
In yesterday’s Financial Times, Gideon Rachman, explains and defines the reason for the ongoing trade war between two of the world’s global powers, China and the United States of America. Presidents Donald Trump and Xi […]
South Africa had a general election on Wednesday 8 May. The ‘New South Africa’ is now 25 years old. The 2019 vote was the sixth fully democratic election in the country, following the historic 1994 […]
Spain’s voters went to the polls on Sunday 28 April. Despite the fact that this was the third general election in four years, people seemed to be interested in this election. Turnout (the proportion of […]
Elections have been coming in thick and fast in several countries. We have written about Nigeria, Senegal and Slovakia in other articles on the site but there have been several other important elections around the […]
The first stage of presidential elections took place in Slovakia on Saturday, 16 March 2019; no candidate achieved an overall majority so the two leading candidates will go on to a decisive election on 30 […]
The first round of elections for the Presidency of Senegal took place on Sunday 24 February. The incumbent President Macky Sall won re-election with 58 per cent of the vote on a 67 per cent […]
UPDATE: Results President Buhari (APC party) was declared the winner of the election by Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission, with 15 million votes compared to his rival Atiku Abubakar’s (PDP party) 11 million votes. The […]
At last, the end has come for the long international legal dispute over the name of the country that lies north of Greece and south of Serbia. It is now the Republic of North Macedonia […]
