With hours to go before Americans vote, Democrat Hillary Clinton has about a 90 percent chance of defeating Republican Donald Trump in the race for the White House, according to the final Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation project. Her chances are roughly similar to last week’s odds, and any upset[…]
With the centre failing to hold in the governing party, DA leader Mmusi Maimane said he was fully focused on unseating the ANC in 2019, even if it meant it would happen through a national coalition. “The ANC thought that it would govern until Jesus came back and now they[…]
Voters headed to the polls on Friday for the kingdom’s 10th parliamentary elections since independence in 1956 to define a new political map for the North African country. About 16 million Moroccans out of the country’s 34 million people have registered to vote. They will choose from 30 parties that[…]
Democratic Republic of Congo authorities have delayed elections to make sure the country is better prepared, President Joseph Kabilasaid on Tuesday, responding to accusations he is trying to cling to power. Congo’s electoral commission said on Saturday it expected polls to be delayed until December 2018. “We have decided to[…]
Gabon’s prime minister on Sunday named a new government in the wake of disputed elections, but it contained no representatives of opposition leader Jean Ping, who says the vote was rigged. According to a government statement, the only opposition leader named in Prime Minister Emmanuel Issozet Ngondet’s cabinet of 40[…]
In a speech delivered Saturday night in Qatar, Hamas politburo chief Khalid Mashaal admitted that Hamas “made mistakes” after winning elections in 2006 that led the party’s rule over the Gaza Strip, and also hinted that he would not run for reelection in Hamas’ internal elections expected to be held[…]
Gabon’s re-elected President Ali Bongo shrugged off international calls for a recount of last week’s disputed vote, saying it was a matter for the constitutional court to decide. The European Union has questioned the validity of election which the opposition has dismissed as a sham. France, the former colonial ruler[…]
Counting is under way in Hong Kong’s key Legislative Council (Legco) elections – the first since the so-called Umbrella Revolution of 2014 – after record numbers of voters cast their ballots well past midnight. About 90 per cent of votes had been counted by 9:30am local time (01:30 GMT) on[…]
Clashes broke out in the Gabonese capital after after President Ali Bongo was declared winner of the presidential election. Gabon’s opposition leader Jean Ping said on Thursday two people were killed and many injured when the presidential guard and police attacked his party’s headquarters overnight in the wake of an[…]
Supporters of Gabon’s President Ali Bongo and his chief rival both said on Sunday they were set to win a presidential election that poses the most serious challenge yet to the Bongo family’s half-century rule in the tiny, oil-rich nation. Backers of the president and his main challenger, Jean Ping,[…]
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