By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 24 August 2006 India says it may withdraw its peacekeeping troops from southern Lebanon. The announcement comes as the United Nations tries to assemble a bigger international force to enforce the fledgling Middle East tr...
By Efam Dovi Accra, Ghana 27 July 2006 A recent boost in gas prices across Ghana is generating unprecedented criticism from members of the ruling New Patriotic Party, with some fearing that the party could lose the next general elections as a result...
By Catherine Maddux Washington 10 July 2006 Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is challenging the results of last week's election. He filed a petition following the very narrow, but apparent victory of his conservative oppone...
By Peta Thornycroft Harare 19 June 2006 The founding legal secretary in Zimbabwe's divided opposition Movement for Democratic Change, David Coltart, has announced he has joined the faction of the party lead by scientist Arthur Mutambara. -----------...
By Ron Corben Bangkok 21 May 2006 Aung San Suu Kyi (2002 photo) Burma's political opposition, the National League for Democracy, is hopeful of progress on democratic reform after the three-day visit o...
By Franz Wild Abidjan 15 May 2006 Opposition groups in Chad are rejecting election results that show President Idriss Deby won a third elected five-year term. They say the vote was characterized by fr...
By Scott Bobb Bangkok 08 May 2006 The pro-democracy opposition in Burma has dismissed claims in the government-controlled news media of mass resignations from the party. The response follows expressio...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 05 April 2006 In Nepal, the authorities have detained scores of opposition leaders and imposed a curfew on the eve of a nationwide strike called to protest King Gyanendra'...
By Marlene Smith Vienna 03 April 2006 Alexander Milinkevich, who led protest demonstrations in Belarus against electoral fraud, says the West could help democratic forces fighting for freedom in his c...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 23 March 2006 Kizza Besigye talks on the phone, after he was acquitted of rape charges at High Court in Kampala Ugandan opposition politician Kizza Besigye is challenging the...