world news Mass protests in Algeria as defiant 82 year old president won't quit Hundreds of thousands of Algerians took to the streets of Algiers again on Friday to rally against their ailing 82 year old president Abdelaziz Bouteflika. 23/03/2019
USA Beto O'Rourke announces he's running for president "The only way for us to live up to the promise of America is to give it our all and to give it for all of us," he said. 14/03/2019
USA Bernie Sanders launches second Democratic US presidential bid The senator from Vermont made the announcement in an email to supporters asking for 1 million people to sign up to start the effort. He previously mounted a fierce challenge to front-runner Hillary Clinton in the 2016 White House election campaign. 19/02/2019
world news Senator Elizabeth Warren enters 2020 US presidential race The Democrat Senator has made worker rights, fair wages and access to health care central to her campaign. 09/02/2019
Georgia Georgia elects French-born Zurabishvili as president Georgia elects French-born Salome Zurabishvili as its new president — the first woman to hold the office in the country's history. 26/11/2018
View Nigeria: Giving People A Voice Will Bring About Peace | View Nigerians have all the right in the world to question the authority and legitimacy of our nation’s current political leadership. 16/08/2018
Mali Mali presidential race enters decisive polling day Ibrahim Boubacor Keita is on the verge of winning a second term with a significant lead over rival Soumalia Cisse, but has faced accusations of ballot fixing. 11/08/2018
Zimbabwe Zimbabwe looks to turn page on brutality and chaos of Mugabe What’s at stake in Zimbabwe’s election? The country is choosing a new president after 40 years under Robert Mugabe brought repression and economic ruin. 30/07/2018
Zimbabwe Polls open in Zimbabwe's first post-Mugabe presidential election Voters in the southern African country are choosing a new president, eight months after Robert Mugabe was forced from power following nearly 40 years of repressive rule. 29/07/2018
Mexico Who is Mexico's Lopez Obrador and will he take on Trump? Mexico's next president won a landslide in Sunday's election promising to tackle corruption, violence — and Donald Trump. 02/07/2018
Mexico Mexico gets its first leftist leader in decades Veteran politician Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador wins after promising to tackle corruption and the drug cartels. 02/07/2018
Colombia Colombia chooses a new president The two would-be successors to President Santos could be more different from each other. 17/06/2018
Italy New Italian government readies for power Italy's new government is set to be sworn in on Friday. Alongside Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, Matteo Salvini, leader of The League, will serve as Interior Minister; Luigi Di Maio, leader of Five-Star, will be Minister of Industry and Labour 31/05/2018
Colombia Why is Colombia’s presidential election important? | Euronews answers Sunday’s vote is overshadowed by the fragile peace deal with the FARC rebel group, and by political and economic chaos in neighbouring Venezuela. 23/05/2018
Iraq Iraqi reporter who threw shoes at George Bush 'to run for office' Muntazer al-Zaidi, jailed after hurling his shoes at the ex-US president in Baghdad in 2008, says he is campaigning in this month’s Iraqi elections. 02/05/2018
Kazakhstan Who are the most popular presidents in Europe? After Ilham Aliyev triumphed in Azerbaijan’s presidential election this week, we looked at how his winning 86.1% vote share compared with the rest of Europe. 13/04/2018
Sierra Leone Bio bounces back from 2012 defeat to take Sierra Leone presidency Ruling party's beaten candidate cries foul amid allegations of fraud in tight run-off, which saw a 51-49% split. 05/04/2018
Costa Rica Carlos Alvarado to be Costa Rica's next president Support for gay marriage helped the centre-left candidate triumph over his more conservative rival 02/04/2018
USA Trump hires re-election campaign chief It’s thought to be the earliest any incumbent US president has officially declared his re-election campaign. 28/02/2018
Costa Rica Costa Rica presidential election set to be decided by run off Evangelical singer Fabricio Alvarado Munoz will face-off against unrelated ex-government minister Carlos Alvarado Quesada 05/02/2018
USA Scale of Russian bots promoting Trump on Twitter revealed Russian bots retweeted Donald Trump almost half a million times in the run-up to the US presidential elections 27/01/2018
world news Czech Republic: Anti-immigration president seeks re-election Voters go to the polls today and tomorrow, facing a clear choice between incumbent Milos Zeman and his challengers 12/01/2018
Liberia Ex footballer George Weah wins Liberia presidential election George Weah has won Liberia's presidential run-off election with 61.5 percent of votes from 98.1 percent of ballots cast, says the election commission. 28/12/2017
Liberia Liberians choose between experience or change Boakai is a known quantity, while Weah is the people's champion, even if his lack of experience is an obstacle. 26/12/2017
Chile Pinera on course in Chilean presidentials Opinion polls say conservative will win first round, but have to fight a run-off vote to be president again. 19/11/2017
Kenya Uhuru Kenyatta re-elected as Kenya's president Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta has been re-elected and will serve a second and final five-year term as president. 11/08/2017
