Liberian Nobel Peace Prize laureate and president, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, was poised to win a second term in Tuesday's election run-off despite opposition calls for an election boycott.
Liberian President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf on Saturday called on voters to ignore calls from her challenger, Winston Tubman, to boycott the Nov. 8 election in which she looks set to win.
Bahrain will hold a second round of legislative elections October 1 to fill a remaining nine out of 18 seats left vacant by Shiite lawmakers who resigned in protest against a crackdown on anti-government demonstrations.
Egypt held run-off parliamentary elections yesterday that are certain to hand President Hosni Mubarak’s rulling party a crushing victory after the two main opposition groups decided to boycott the poll in protest against alleged fraud in the first round.
A little over two weeks after the deadly Israeli raid on a boat from a pro-Palestinian humanitarian group headed to Gaza, Israel's cabinet announced yesterday that it would partially lift the blockade on the Gaza strip.
After weeks of fruitless talks, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said fresh elections may be needed to break a deadlock in power-sharing negotiations to form a new cabinet.
Attending, or not attending, the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games is a strong political statement. While Merkel and Brown opted not to make the trip, can we speak of a boycott? And what will it mean after the Games? (Part 2)
Attending, or not attending, the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games is a strong political statement. While Angela Merkel and Gordon Brown opted not to make the trip, can we speak of a boycott? And what will it mean after the Games?
British-Dutch oil giant Shell is considering pulling out of Zimbabwe, British paper The Observer has revealed. If it does so, it would be the first multinational company to boycott the country in protest over the regime's violations of democracy.
