No image available
/ 16 September 2009
Lebanon’s president designated Saad al-Hariri prime minister on Wednesday, asking the politician to form a new government for a second time.
No image available
/ 10 September 2009
Lebanese prime minister-designate Saad al-Hariri on Thursday abandoned an attempt to form a government with rival groups including Hezbollah.
Kenya’s power-sharing deal must pull through until 2012 despite the divisions that threaten to tear apart the ruling government, the Commonwealth said
Kenya’s fragile coalition government lost its first minister on Monday, a day after talks to heal rifts within the alliance collapsed in acrimony.
Benjamin Netanyahu began his second term as Israeli prime minister on Wednesday at the helm of a right-wing government.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud signed a coalition deal with the ultra-Orthodox Shas party on Monday, bringing the leader closer to forming a government.
Israel’s right-wing Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu won a two-week extension on Friday to form a government, an aide said.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accused Parliament of violating the Constitution after it rejected a key plank of his subsidy reform plan.
Israeli prime minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu signed his first coalition agreement overnight with the ultranationalist Israel Beiteinu party.
No image available
/ 25 February 2009
Benjamin Netanyahu, the hawkish leader of Israel’s Likud party, has not given up hope of forging a broad coalition government.
No image available
/ 19 February 2009
The Israeli president was to hold talks with party officials on Thursday and decide within four days who will be tasked with forming a new government.
No image available
/ 19 January 2009
President Francois Bozize on Monday reappointed Faustin-Archange Touadera as prime minister, just a day after dissolving the government.
No image available
/ 28 October 2008
With the unexpected expulsion of former president Thabo Mbeki, the ANC was caught without a transitional plan in place.
Click on image for full-size view.