By AFPVoters in Madagascar head to the polls on Thursday for the first round of a tense presidential election after weeks of opposition protests demanding a "fair and equitable" vote.Outgoing President Andry Rajoelina, 49, is squaring off against 12...

Kuwait’s National Assembly approved a draft law regulating the parliamentary elections (General Elections Commission Law) and excluding women who don’t abide by Islamic Sharia law from practicing political rights of voting and nomination.The National...

The far-right political party VOX in Spain never stops its anti-Muslim and anti-migrant policies in Spanish elections. Whether on social media or on the ground, the party is promoting hate speech against Muslims and migrants ahead of the legislative...

Prominent Egyptian opposition journalist Khaled El-Balshy, whose website has been blocked by the Egyptian authorities since March 2020, was elected to be the new head of the Journalists Syndicate, and he has promised to open the file of imprisoned jo...

After 33 years of absence, doctors in Sudan have been able to complete the founding phase of restoring their democratic union, after the Doctors Syndicate had been dissolved along with other unions following the military coup led by former President...

By AFPPolling began in the second round of elections for Tunisia's toothless parliament on Sunday, but as the divided nation grapples with economic woes, all eyes will be on turnout.A total of 262 candidates are competing for 131 seats in the new leg...

By AFPBullet marks reveal the spot where a rights lawyer was shot in the head at the height of clashes in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir between Kurdish militants and security forces in 2015.Much of the Kurdish-majority city of over one...

By AFP Tunisia's electoral board revised the turnout in parliamentary elections slightly upwards to 11.2 percent on Monday, a poll that opposition groups said undermined President Kais Saied.The ISIE electoral authority had initially announced partic...

By AFPThe leader of Tunisia's main opposition alliance said Sunday that President Kais Saied should "leave immediately", a day after voters overwhelming snubbed elections for a neutered parliament.The electoral board said 8.8 percent of the nine-mill...

Tunisians started voting in a lacklustre election Saturday for a parliament with virtually no power, the final pillar in President Kais Saied's political overhaul in the birthplace of the Arab Spring.Opposition political groups in the North African c...

By AFPNew Peruvian President Dina Boluarte announced Sunday that she would seek to hold elections two years early, while also declaring a state of emergency in certain areas after protests following the arrest of her predecessor left two dead.Demonst...