Africa needs strong institutions. But they can only be built if there’s a change in leadership
With Zim holding elections this year, the opposition had been feeling cautiously optimistic— until its arch-enemy, Mugabe, was ousted from power
The industrial town, part of the contested Metsimaholo area, is seeking renewal
"The tallying process of the election was concluded and Kulmiye party candidate Muse Bihi Abdi won the election and will be the president"
Leaders are doing little to calm tensions in the midst of Kenya’s worst political crisis in a decade
"Kenyans are tired and will not allow to be put in a perpetual electioneering mode,"says Kenyatta
African democracies are embracing electronic voting far more confidently than the West.
Major political parties in Austria are openly endorsing anti-Islam messages in their campaigns ahead of the country’s elections next month
Amidst political instability and violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, voter registration and preparation for elections are being welcomed
After the recent poll result was annulled, some are asking whether a new solution is needed for unity
Three African elections in the coming month are supposed to show these countries are democracies. But that is about more than just voting.
Parties should announce coalitional plans prior to the election so that voters can more properly gauge expected outcomes.
The prime minister is unlikely to get unequivocal backing for the ‘hard’ Brexit she’d envisioned.
Continental Europe could provide a lodestar on whether right-wing populism will continue to find fertile electoral ground.
The doctors of spin are going to have a busy 2017 given the number of polls worldwide, writes Andrew Hammond.
The relegation of politically motivated killings and property destruction to the footnotes underscores our dangerous winner-takes-all approach.
The Afrikaner enclave held its own election this week, buoyed by a vision of growth and prosperity.
The former president’s reasons are corruption in state institutions and because the party lost confidence in him in 2008 and recalled him.
A record 200 parties, 65% more than in 2011, will contest the August 3 elections.
Jacob Zuma addressed commuters at the Uitenhage taxi rank from a small ANC-branded campaign truck parked in a spot used as a makeshift urinal.
The big question is: Will people vote for another party, or will it be protests and strikes as usual?
High-tech tools such as fingerprint scanners are useful during polls, but a credible vote depends on those who run the system.
Slate politics trumped calls for unity at last weekend’s elections for ANC KZN.
With a new Trudeau in the hot seat, the country is expected to resume its role as global boy scout.
The Tories’ social conservativism appeals to many – despite the party’s hardline views on the niqab.
Debating, Survivor style.
I’m sure Winnie is not celebrating our country’s acquisition of Gripen fighter planes we can’t fly or submarines we can’t maintain.
Times are a-changing in Spain as the new office bearers embrace the secular state and do away with cars.
In a bid to smarten its pre-election face, the ruling party wants popular heavyweights in its corner.
The mayoral race is down to a pair of self-styled "little grandmothers" who are poles apart in their politics but equally tenacious and astute.
Anti-poverty activist elected as mayor of Barcelona; the ruling right-wing People’s Party was battered at the ballot box.
Eastern Cape leadership wants the soccer boss as Nelson Mandela Bay’s mayor to retain the key metro and revive its fortunes before 2016 elections.