Security in Congo's mineral-rich east is deteriorating with rebel group expanding territory, UN says

Security in Congo’s mineral-rich east has deteriorated since recent elections, with a rebel group ... including sexual and gender-based violence.” He called the international community ... Read More

2024 Elections

The former president’s claim ahead of a pivotal Supreme Court hearing that he was protecting the election system rather than subverting it is part of a pattern of shaping his own reality. Read More

Mass. voters believe 2024 election could lead to violence, poll says

As the 2024 presidential election draws near, Massachusetts voters are concerned about violence breaking out in connection with it, according to a new GBH News/CommonWealth Beacon poll conducted ... Read More

Congo displacement reaches 'devastating level' as violence escalates, aid groups warn

There has been a resurgence of violence as warring groups fight for territory. LONDON -- Almost a million people have been forced to flee their homes in the Democratic Republic of Congo since the ... Read More

Congo appoints its first female prime minister as violence surges in the east

Former planning minister Judith Suminwa Tuluka will step into the role at a time of worsening violence in the country's ... Congo carries out a "dramatic military build-up" near the border. Fox ... Read More

Elections tracker 2024: every vote and why it matters

More than 80 countries – more than half the world’s population – are voting this year in elections that could ... election, in 2019, represented the first peaceful transfer of power in ... Read More

Conservative PiS’ local election lead shakes Tusk’s power in Poland

Conservative opposition PiS party leads in Sunday’s local elections ... and lost power in the country to the Tusk-led coalition. He added the next task was to “win the EU election and ... Read More

‘Unprecedented’ Humanitarian Crisis in Congo as Conflict Rages

Nearly a quarter of Congo’s 100 million people are facing food insecurity and the number of displaced people has increased more than 800,000 in the past three months to 7.1 million people ... Read More

Wisconsin Primary Election Results

Wisconsin voters may participate in either party’s presidential ... private funding of elections, part of a national backlash to donations that Mark Zuckerberg made to election offices in ... Read More

Escalating violence engulfs Mexican election race

An aspiring mayor of one of Mexico's most dangerous cities was gunned down in the street as violence escalates weeks before elections ... around 30 people seeking election have been murdered ... Read More

Here's what you need to know about the world's largest democratic election in India

The staggered polling allows the government to deploy tens of thousands of troops to prevent violence and transport election ... power. Some of these credentials have seen a slow erosion under ... Read More

Escalating Violence Engulfs Mexican Election Race

CORRECTS throughout after government withdraws report of second candidate killed in attack An aspiring mayor of one of Mexico's most ... street as violence escalates weeks before elections ... Read More