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 […]
Nancy Pelosi took office as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives on 3 January 2019. What is the Speakership of the House? The Speaker is the presiding officer of a legislature. She or […]
What is UXO? UXO is an acronym for Unexploded Ordnance, i.e. weapons that were deployed during a war which have not detonated. Where is Laos? Laos is in South East Asia, west of and inland […]
Are the elections over yet? The midterm elections took place on Tuesday 6 November. The results are clear for most of the elections but there are still a few seats which are ‘uncalled’. This means that […]
What is the current situation in Libya? The North African country has been locked in a state of violence since 2011 when a popular uprising ended with the overthrow and death of former president Muammar Gaddafi. […]
What is new in New Caledonia? There was a referendum on Sunday 4 November in New Caledonia, a Pacific island territory that is under French sovereignty. The question was whether it should become an independent […]
