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

11/04/2016

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

06/03/2016

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

04/03/2016

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

20/02/2016

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

18/02/2016

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.

17/02/2016

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.

12/02/2016

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

02/02/2016

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

02/02/2016

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

02/02/2016

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

02/02/2016

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

02/02/2016

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

01/02/2016

USA

Iowa: campaigning goes to the wire

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

01/02/2016

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

29/01/2016

Central African Republic

CAR: elections annulled in strife-torn country

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

25/01/2016

Portugal

Portugal elects veteran centre-right Rebelo de Sousa as president

Portugal has a new president! The veteran centre-right candidate Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa notched up a convincing win in Sunday’s ballot, avoiding

25/01/2016

World News

Rebelo de Sousa wins Portuguese presidential election

Centre-right candidate Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa won Portugal’s presidential election on Sunday, an outcome that should help maintain political balance

25/01/2016

World News

Portugal's De Souza wins presidential election in the first round

Portugal’s centre-right candidate Marcelo Rebelo de Souza has won the presidential election in the first round. He took over fifty-two percent of

24/01/2016

World News

The Portuguese presidental election guide

What is happening and when? More than nine million Portuguese voters have to choose a new president on January 24, 2016. It is the ninth Presidential

20/01/2016