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Austria: An outsider for president?

Sunday is election day in Austria and for the first time a candidate from outside one of the two main parties, that have dominated post-war politics

Liberia

Africanews exclusive: George Weah will run again for Liberia’s presidency

George Weah, the only African footballer to win FIFA’s World Player of the Year award, will make a second bid to become president of Liberia, he told

USA

Broken vote accusations dog Clinton's New York victory

Hillary Clinton may have won big in New York, but there could be a negative fallout for the Democratic frontrunner if accusations of large-scale

World News

Fujimori likely to face Kuczynski in Peru presidential run-off

Centre-right candidate Keiko Fujimori has won the first round of Peru’s presidential election. Early official results with around two-fifths of votes

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World News

Keiko Fujimori 'wins Peru's presidential first round'

Centre-right candidate Keiko Fujimori has won the first round of Peru’s presidential election. Exit polls have given her about 40 percent of the

Benin

Benin election: 33 candidates compete to be president

There is plenty of choice in Benin’s election. Voters going to the polls on Sunday have had a record 33 candidates to choose from – all vying to

Zimbabwe

Mugabe government to seize Zimbabwe's diamond operations

Just days after celebrating his 92nd birthday, Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe says his successor must be chosen democratically and that his wife

Central African Republic

Touadera hopes to heal rifts after winning CAR presidential poll

Reconciliation and recovery are the huge tasks facing the Central African Republic’s new President Faustin-Archange Touadera, named the winner of a

Uganda

Ugandans vote for president in closest contest for decades

People in Uganda are voting in a presidential election in which all sides accuse each other of stoking tensions, violence and fraud. The incumbent

Uganda

Violence and vote rigging threatens Ugandan ballot

Uganda prepares to go the polls with incumbant president Yoweri Museveni seeking a fifth term in office.

USA

The gloves are off! Clinton and Sanders battle it out in Milwaukee

The gloves are off: presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton go head-to-head in a punchy Democratic debate.

USA

Washington correspondent: "it wasn't really Trump's natural habitat"

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has claimed a narrow victory over US Senator Bernie Sanders in the Democratic nomination contest in Iowa

USA

Hillary Clinton claims Iowa Democrat victory over Bernie Sanders

US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has claimed victory over Bernie Sanders in the US state of Iowa’s nominating contest. Clinton

USA

Cruz draws first blood in USA Republican race; Clinton claims narrowest of victories for Democrats

Surprise for the Republicans and a dogfight for the Democrats

USA

Clinton and Sanders 'tie' in Iowa for Democratic nomination

Hillary Clinton and top challenger Bernie Sanders have ended in a virtual tie in the Democratic contest for the Iowa presidential nomination. With

USA

Cruz beats Trump in Iowa nomination contest

In a shock result US conservative candidate Ted Cruz has beaten billionaire Donald Trump in Iowa’s Republican presidential nominating contest. Cruz

USA

Iowa Caucus fires starting gun for race to the White House

Iowa is a rural state, tucked away in the mid west of the US with around just three million people. Now its time has come again as it does every year

USA

Iowa: campaigning goes to the wire

The stars come out to back their favourite potential US presidential candidate ahead of November's election

USA

Trump boycotts Fox news debate but still takes centre stage in presidential race

Presidential hopeful Donald Trump may have been absent from the Republican debate in Iowa on the Fox News channel on Thursday but that didn’t stop

Central African Republic

CAR: elections annulled in strife-torn country

But who are the two candidates for the presidential run-off?