President Ali Ben Bongo says he wants his government to be more responsive to the needs of its people and is backing changes to the justice system to improve public confidence and the quality of prosecution. Scott Stearns | Dakar 10 January 2010 Gabo...
Photo: AP Presidential candidate Ivo Josipovic of Left-leaning opposition Social Democrat, casts his ballot at a polling station in Zagreb, 27 Dec 2009 Official results show Social Democrat Ivo Josipovic has won the most votes in the first round of C...
Tax law professor John Atta-Mills is Ghana's next president. The opposition candidate won a hard-fought, much-delayed election to succeed outgoing president John Kufuor. President-elect John Atta-Mills addresses party supporters shortly after being...
Vote counting continues from Sunday's elections in Ghana with two leading candidates in a tight race to be the country's next president. Both Nana Akufo-Addo of the governing party and opposition candidate John Atta-Mills are veteran politicians wit...
With Israeli elections just two months away, the party that is slated to win is moving further to the right. The trend is expected to have serious implications for the Middle East peace process. Israel's right-wing Likud party has chosen top hawks t...
American voters head to the polls on Tuesday to elect their next president after the longest and most expensive campaign in U.S. history. As VOA's Mike O'Sullivan reports, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama made last-minute appeals in th...
The two major party candidates for president of the United States, Republican Senator John McCain and Democrat Senator Barack Obama met in a spirited debate over the financial crisis and foreign policy Friday at the University of Mississippi. As VOA...
The troubled U.S. economy once again took center stage in the presidential election campaign Wednesday. VOA National Correspondent Jim Malone has more on the race for the White House. Traders crowd post that handles Morgan Stanley on the floor of th...
Both major U.S. presidential candidates and their running mates reacted Monday to the financial turmoil on Wall Street in the wake of the bankruptcy announcement from the investment bank Lehman Brothers. As VOA National correspondent Jim Malone repo...
The U.S. presidential election campaign is moving into its final week, and both major candidates are making their closing arguments to voters before the November 4 election. VOA national correspondent Jim Malone has the latest on the campaign from W...