Media Coverage

Roughly 600 protesters on February 6 marched to where New Zealand’s founding document was signed in the town of Waitangi, as official celebrations competed with protests against proposed government policies that threaten Indigenous rights. The gathering is the biggest in at least 30 years...

Malaysian premier Najib Razak, who was convicted of graft over the multibillion-dollar 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal, could be released by 2028 after his jail sentence was halved, prompting uproar from critics who called on the government to explain the decision. The pardons board...

Around 200,000 people took to the streets in Germany on February 3, most of them in the capital Berlin, as nationwide protests against the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party entered their fourth week. Protests were also taking place in cities such as Mainz, Dresden, and Hanover, in a sign...

President Nayib Bukele on February 4 secured a thumping victory in El Salvador's elections after voters cast aside concerns about erosion of democracy to reward him for a fierce gang crackdown that transformed security in the Central American country. Provisional results on February 5 show Bukele...

The European Union on February 2 imposed sanctions against five individuals from Guatemala for undermining democracy, the rule of law, or the peaceful transfer of power in Central America's most populous nation. The listings include the attorney general of Guatemala, Maria Consuelo Porras Argueta De...

Senegalese police on February 4 cracked down on protests against the postponement of the presidential election, as parliament prepared to debate a bill that would reschedule the vote for August and extend President Macky Sall's mandate. Sall announced on February 3 that the February 25 vote would be...

Senegal’s President Macky Sall has indefinitely postponed the presidential election that was scheduled to take place on February 25. Speaking in a televised address to the nation on February 3, the president announced he had cancelled the relevant electoral law, citing a dispute over the candidate...

Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi have been sentenced to 14 years in jail in a case related to the illegal sale of state gifts. An accountability court in Rawalpindi, which deals with corruption cases, on January 31 also ruled that the couple would be ineligible to...

Venezuela’s Supreme Justice Tribunal has upheld a ban which prevents presidential candidate Maria Corina Machado from holding office, upending the opposition’s plans for elections planned for later this year. Machado, a former lawmaker, won the opposition’s independently run presidential primary...

Kenya is going to push ahead with plans to lead a UN-approved security mission to Haiti, despite a court in Nairobi last week blocking the deployment, Kenyan President William Ruto told Reuters on January 30. The international force is aimed at tackling rampant gang violence in the Caribbean nation...