Elections
Finland opens drive-in voting for cars and bicycles for a COVID-safe election
All passengers need to leave the vehicle to allow for private voting, and screens have been built to stop others seeing whom they vote for.
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Chile president proposes delaying election on new constitution
Pinera said that for "the health of all the inhabitants of Chile" he would present a proposal -- which would need Congress approval -- to postpone the April election until May.
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Netanyahu claims Israel vote win but majority uncertain
Netanyahu, Israel's longest-serving premier, had hoped that Tuesday's vote would finally allow him to unite a right-wing coalition behind him, after three inconclusive elections since 2019.
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Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine drops challenge to election loss
The 76-year-old former rebel leader won a sixth term in office on January 14 with 58% of the vote. Wine, a 39-year-old singer-turned-lawmaker, came second with 35% and decried the election as a sham.
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Niger political veterans to face off in presidential vote
Niger is the world's poorest nation, according to the UN's benchmark of development of 189 countries, and is struggling with jihadist insurgencies that have spilled over from Mali and Nigeria.
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Somalia leaders fail to reach deal on elections
The fragile country is likely to miss a February 8 deadline to choose a new president after days of negotiations between the central government and federal states collapsed Friday.
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Bobi Wine, the 'ghetto president' rattling Uganda's Museveni
Today the star, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, is an MP dressed in dark, tailored suits who is fighting to become president of Uganda in Thursday's election.
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Will Biden be a one-term president?
If he were to run and be reelected in 2024, he would be 86 at the end of a second term in 2029.
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IEC: Extraordinary measures needed to attract young voters
The commission has released the results of this week's by-elections in which the ANC managed to bag 70 out of the 95 wards that were contested.
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Democracy vs populism: Tanzanian election leaves uncertain, polarised society
Voters were presented with two competing and highly divisive issues, democracy and populism, competing approaches that have left Tanzania politically fragile.
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Ivory Coast president urges calm in tense election for third term
At least 30 people have been killed in pre-election clashes since August, stoking fears of a return to the violence that left 3,000 dead in a crisis a decade ago when then-president Laurent Gbagbo refused to step down.
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Ivory Coast election revives old feuds over Ouattara third term
Old feuds are rumbling once again in Ivory Coast after Ouattara abruptly decided to face off against adversaries in Saturday's presidential election, stoking up the ethnic tensions and political rancour of the past.
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Zanzibar opposition leader held, 3 killed in poll clashes
Shortly before his arrest, police fired teargas and live rounds, and brutally beat a young man around the Mtupepo primary school where the polling station is located in an opposition stronghold, an AFP reporter saw.
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Trump boosted by Supreme Court confirmation days from US election
The Republican-controlled Senate elevated Amy Coney Barrett to the lifelong position in a 52-48 vote, capping a rapid and deeply contentious process that makes her the sixth conservative, and third Trump appointee, on the nine-member court.
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Chile's president calls on nation to work together for 'new Constitution'
"This plebiscite is not the end, it is the beginning of a path that we must all walk together to agree on a new constitution for Chile," President Pinera said in a speech acknowledging the result.
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Biden says Trump still doing 'nothing' to rein in pandemic
The former vice president, 77, appeared composed and spoke directly to voters in a hall in Philadelphia as he made his case for ousting Trump in the November 3 election just 19 days away.
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Trump says tax report 'fake news' as he goes on defensive ahead of debate
The scoop from 'The New York Times', reporting that Trump paid only $750 in federal income tax in 2016 and 2017, and none at all for 10 of the previous 15 years, was a shot to the jugular of the self-described billionaire.
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Trump posts faked video of Biden playing anti-police song
In the video, which Twitter later marked as "manipulated media," Biden stands at a podium, takes out his cell phone and tells the audience, "I have just one thing to say."
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Anger flares in Ivory Coast after election candidates barred
Also barred was former rebel leader turned prime minister Guillaume Soro, 47, a onetime Ouattara ally who had been sentenced to 20 years in absentia over alleged embezzlement.
