Tag: Opposition

Benin's President Patrice Talon cast his vote on Sunday in a presidential poll boycotted by some opposition parties due to ...

The main opposition challenger in Congo Republic's March 21 presidential election Guy Brice Parfait Kolelas who was sick in hospital ...

Uganda banned social media and messaging apps on Tuesday, two days ahead of a presidential election pitting Yoweri Museveni, one ...

Uganda opposition presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, and his campaign team were arrested in Kalangala in ...

Guinea's veteran opposition leader Cellou Dalein Diallo was picked on Sunday by his UFDG party to challenge President Alpha Conde, ...

Zimbabwe's main opposition leader said his party backed down from planned anti-government protests on Friday to avoid bloodshed but signalled ...

Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi and Renamo opposition leader Ossufo Momade on Thursday signed a landmark agreement aimed at formally ending ...

Rahul Gandhi quit Wednesday as head of India's main opposition Congress party, taking the blame for a second-straight election humiliation ...

Opposition supporters arrested in Mauritania during clashes after the disputed presidential election have been released following official confirmation of the ...

Sudan’s opposition plans to nominate eight members of a transitional council and name a prominent economist to head a government, ...

President Nicolas Maduro welcomed Friday the "beginning of talks" with the Venezuelan opposition in Norway, after months of bloody clashes ...

Macky Sall has been re-elected president of Senegal for a second term, according to provisional results published on Thursday.

Opposition parties in Zambia said Wednesday they will report President Edgar Lungu to the International Criminal Court in The Hague ...

Comoros President Azali Assoumani has denied targeting his opponents in the run-up to March elections, calling the detention of numerous ...

Israel's centre-left opposition dramatically split on Tuesday ahead of an April 9 election, with leader Avi Gabbay announcing he would ...

At least 12 people were killed in election-day clashes in Bangladesh Sunday, after a bloody campaign overshadowed by a crackdown ...

A federal judge in Texas ruled Friday that the US health care law known as Obamacare is unconstitutional -- a ...

The election posters are up, the candidates are doing the rounds and the party rallies are taking place almost without ...

Nigeria's main opposition party said authorities had frozen the bank accounts of its vice presidential candidate in the run-up to ...

A public inquiry into the deaths of six people after Zimbabwe's landmark elections started hearing oral testimonies Tuesday with witnesses ...