7 Reasons To Want A Woman As Your President
We’ve heard a lot of people say things like, “You can’t vote for Hillary just because she’s a woman.” In the most abstract sense, that’s sort of true. It seems unlikely that anyone who considers themselves politically progressive would advise voting for, say, Sarah Palin over Barack Obama just because of the former’s gender—especially given […]
Equatorial Guinea polls to extend decades-long rule of Teodoro Obiang
Citizens in the West African country have cast their votes in presidential elections. Teodoro Obiang, the West African country’s president for the past 36 years, is expected to win this time around too. “We have found many people queuing in front of polling stations and everything is going well,” Emilie Beatrice Epaye, an election observer […]
Chad Election Commission Declares Fifth Term for Deby
The provisional election results released late Thursday mean that the landlocked central African nation avoids a runoff. More than a dozen candidates had challenged Deby, who came to power in a 1990 military coup. The Electoral Commission said 76 percent of more than 6 million registered voters turned out for the April 10 poll. Earlier […]
Darfur Votes to Keep Five-State System
Nearly 98 percent of voters in Sudan’s western Darfur region have voted against reuniting the five separate states in the war-torn region, according to the electoral commission overseeing the referendum. Darfur referendum commission chief Omar Ali Jamaa said Saturday 3.2 million of Darfur’s 3.5 million registered voters cast ballots in the election, which was monitored […]
Iran Bars Female MP for ‘Shaking Hands With Unrelated Man’
A newly elected female MP in Iran is to be barred from entering the next parliament apparently because she is alleged to have shaken hands with an unrelated man during a trip abroad. Minoo Khaleghi, a reformist politician and environmental activist, has denied claims about the handshake, which would be illegal under Iran’s Islamic law. […]
Hillary Clinton Responds to Bernie Sanders’ Remark That She’s “Condescending” to Young People
While on the campaign trail in Las Vegas, a young girl asked Hillary Clinton, “If you’re elected the girl president, will you be paid the same as the boy president?’” Said Clinton, “Well, I think so.” The Democratic front-runner told this story to a crowd gathered for a round-table discussion on equal pay sponsored by employer review company Glassdoor on […]
Liberia: ‘More Difficult Times Ahead’
President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has told Liberians to expect more difficult times within the next several months. The Liberian leader made the statement at ceremonies marking the first employees and farewell program of the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning for outgoing minister Amara Mohammed Konneh. “The biggest test is coming, because in the next several […]
Voting Begins In Chad’s Presidential Election
Voting began on Sunday in a presidential election in Chad in which incumbent Idriss Deby is favourite to win a fifth term and extend a tenure that began in 1990. Deby’s main electoral argument is that only his government can take the necessary measures to guarantee stability in a region where Islamist militant group Boko […]
The Sanders Campaign’s Sexist New Argument: Hillary Tries Too Hard
On Tuesday night, following Bernie Sanders’s big win in the Wisconsin primary, his campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, understandably jazzed in the midst of a victory lap, said a really stupid sexist thing about Hillary Clinton. When CNN’s Jake Tapper asked him about the increasingly aggressive rhetoric between Sanders and Hillary Clinton, Weaver averred that his […]
‘Shame on you, I am not dying’, Mugabe tells potential successors
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Thursday accused potential successors for wishing him dead and told ruling ZANU-PF supporters to unite against foreign enemies he said wanted to destroy the Southern African nation. Africa’s oldest leader at 92 years, Mugabe has held power since independence from Britain in 1980 and says his heir must be chosen […]
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