Vladimir Putin will run in the March presidential election, extending his power until at least 2030.
Putin, who was handed the presidency by Boris Yeltsin on the last day of 1999, has already served as president for longer than any...
In August, when a group of Gabonese military officers deposed President Ali Bongo, whose family had ruled the country for nearly six decades, many ordinary citizens came out on the streets to celebrate.
When Bongo put out a call for...
By Rédaction Africanews with AP
Behind those words, more than a dozen opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) figures — from elected representatives to officials and activists — have been arrested by police in the three weeks since the election, the...
MASERU, Oct 9 - A recently founded party led by a millionaire diamond magnate looked set on Sunday to win Lesotho's parliamentary election, having secured enough for a simple majority, according to preliminary results from the election commission.
By Sunday...
Lagos (R2E) – When Nigeria's opposition named veteran operator Atiku Abubakar as its 2023 election candidate, ruling APC party chief Bola Tinubu quickly welcomed a chance to compete against a "worthy" opponent.
Two wealthy, Muslim, septuagenarian political warhorses who both...
His infamous father was ousted from office in a 1986 revolt.
MANILA, Philippines — The namesake son of late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos appeared to have been elected Philippine president by a landslide in an astonishing reversal of the 1986...
J.D. Vance has won the Republican nomination for Senate in Ohio after he soared to the lead when former President Donald Trump endorsed him.
Most of the Republicans vying for the nomination for the open Senate seat sought Trump's endorsement,...
Emmanuel Macron has held off a challenge from far-right leader Marine Le Pen to retain the French presidency.
Macron, the centrist incumbent, won with 58.5 percent of the vote in Sunday's second-round runoff, compared with 41.5 percent for Le Pen, his nationalist rival, official results...
Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen will go head to head in a live TV debate on Wednesday night that could prove crucial in making up the minds of undecided voters four days before the French presidential runoff.
The high-stakes,...
PARIS, April 11 (Reuters) - France's centrist leader Emmanuel Macron will take his hunt for extra votes on Monday to the industrial heartlands of northern France, a blue-collar stronghold of his far-right rival Marine Le Pen who he will...
