Voters in Guinea are casting their ballots in a controversial election which see President Alpha Condé, 82, seek a third term. The already bitterly divided West African country was gripped

US President Donald Trump, who played down the coronavirus pandemic from its onset, criticized Michigan’s Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer on Saturday for her policies to curb the outbreak, drawing shouts

US President Donald Trump takes his re-election push to Michigan and Wisconsin on Saturday before launching a tour of western states to shore up support as national polls show him

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has won a landslide victory in the country’s general election. With most ballots tallied, Ardern’s Labour Party has won 49% of the vote and

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US Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has said the “future rests in renewable energy” as he put distance between his clean energy goals and the Green New Deal. At a

Guinea’s opposition leader and presidential candidate Cellou Dalein Diallo has held his final rally ahead of Sunday’s election, denouncing President Alpha Conde’s decision to run for a third term in

US President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden will duel on different prime-time town hall events on Thursday instead of their second presidential debate. The twin events, in which

A former Nigerian presidential candidate Ahmed Buhari has said the continued stay of the country’s service chiefs poses a huge problem to Nigeria. The country is witnessing massive protests by

With Election Day just three weeks away, US President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden concentrated on battleground states both see as critical to clinching an Electoral College

US President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett faced some tough questions on everything from Obamacare to her stance on abortion from senators on the second day of

US rapper Kanye West has released the first advertisement for his presidential campaign, just 22 days ahead of Election Day. West shared the video, which is a little longer than one

Many Nigerian senators have described the country’s 2021 Appropriation Bil of N13.082 trillion as one that is unrealistic and unachievable. On Tuesday the lawmakers commenced deliberation on the general principles

One of Africa’s leading think tanks and civil society groups, the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) has called on authorities in Nigeria to enforce stiffer measures against those involved

The US Senate Judiciary Committee has opened its four-day confirmation hearing for President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett.  President Trump picked Judge Barrett to replace liberal Justice

Rotimi Akeredolu, incumbent governor of Nigeria’s southwestern Ondo state and candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has been declared winner of the October 10 governorship election in Ondo State

Donald Trump’s doctor has said the US president is no longer at risk of transmitting Covid-19, giving him the all clear to return to an active schedule. In a memo

Residents in Nigeria’s Ondo State went to the polls on Saturday to decide who will be their next governor and lead them for the next four years. The collation of

Reports from election observers in Nigeria who are monitoring the Ondo State Governorship election have shown that the election has been marred by violence, massive vote-buying, malfunctioning of card readers

Nigeria’s National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno says he has advised the country’s President Muhammadu Buhari to end the Niger Delta amnesty programme, which has seen “N712 (about $1.8bn) wasted in