democracy

Rights lawyer Yu Wensheng has been detained by Chinese authorities, hours after circulating a letter calling for constitutional reforms. Yu…

Can a democratic country outlaw fake news? France is about to find out, after President Emmanuel Macron ordered a law…

Secretary General of the Egypt Arab Party, Samy Balah, reported that the party had officially announced the presidential candidacy of…

International footballer George Weah has won Liberia’s presidential run-off election. The landmark election marks the first democratic transfer of power…

The Speaker of Parliament Ali Abdelaal called on the authorities regulating media affairs to address violations committed by journalists and media…

President Juan Orlando Hernandez was declared the winner Sunday of Honduras’ disputed election after three weeks of uncertainty and unrest…

President Vladimir Putin confirmed Russia’s worst kept political secret on Wednesday, saying he would run for re-election in March 2018…

Votes are now being recounted from more than a thousand disputed ballot boxes after last week’s presidential election. But allegations…

President Juan Orlando Hernandez has been swept to victory following the most divisive election in Honduras’ democratic history. Opponents claim…

Elected officials from Cambodia’s banned opposition party have begun handing over their duties after a court ordered the party dissolved,…