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US president urges Congress to pass campaign finance bill that would force political groups to disclose big donors.

After local elections in Nepal earlier this year, the Kathmandu Post expressed some alarm that Nepalis were losing interest in voting.

Growing up in Pakistan, the novelist experienced the euphoria of free elections and the disillusionment when vested interests reasserted themselves. She reflects on the parallels with Westminster today

While We Watched is a ‘wake-up call to how perilous and fragile the relationship between a free press and democracy is’.

A high-ranking delegation from the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee will visit Sudan on Thursday to discuss the political crisis there and the process of transition to civilian rule. In a statement on Sunday, the European Union said the delegation plans to meet with Sudanese authorities and civil society in…

Country’s military has deployed brutal violence to crush dissent since taking power in a 2021 coup but resistance is growing

President Joe Biden is finding it’s easier to call out attacks on democracy than it is to stop them

It’s a long-standing Kenyan tradition to offer congratulations in paid print and TV messages to an incoming president. The bulk of these messages are put out by government agencies – and county governments in recent years – but also private commercial corporations. This year, however, the newly elected president William…

The European Union executive recommended on Sunday suspending some 7.5 billion euros in funding for Hungary over corruption, the first such case in the 27-nation bloc under a new sanction meant to better protect the rule of law.

Local Democracy Reporter for Northumberland James Robinson swapped the office for the farm for a day

Welsh Labour must row back from imposing a Senedd electoral system that would rob voters of choices they've had since the birth of British democracy, argues Political editor-at-large Martin Shipton