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The head of Mexico's National Electoral Institute will resign amid allegations of corruption, a decision President Claudia Sheinbaum said she supports—marking the most high-profile departure tied to alleged corruption in…
On October 25, Serbia's student-led protest movement won a historic victory in parliamentary elections, defeating outgoing President Aleksandar Vucic's party. Supporters of the student list explained to FRANCE 24 how they mounted a massive mobilisation to fight electoral fraud and monitor the electoral process inside and outside the polling stations.
Emotions ran high in Belgrade on Monday after a student-led movement upset the right-wing populist Aleksandar Vucic's party in Serbia's snap election. A celebratory mood gripped the capital, with drivers honking their horns and passers-by holding up three fingers -- the winning list's ballot number and a Serbian greeting. Many wore badges and other symbols of the student movement, while a large group of residents spent the day cleaning up a park between parliament and the presidency after Vucic loyalists,…
Serbian strongman Aleksandar Vucic vowed to defeat the student protest movement, but lost in the end. Other movements across the region can learn lessons from the Serbian students about tactics and perseverance.
Xi's anti-corruption campaign has become "an effort to consolidate and maintain authority", observers say.
Against a backdrop of anti-government protests, experts suspect Tirana mayor Erion Veliaj is seeking to portray himself as a ‘political prisoner’ as he awaits trial on corruption charges.
[263Chat] Cabinet has approved a new five-year National Anti-Corruption Strategy aimed at strengthening accountability, improving law enforcement and reducing corruption across public institutions.
Paraguay's Central Bank said Wednesday it had partially returned savings to all eligible Ueno Bank depositors, following the lender's collapse last week. The crisis triggered mass protests and the impeachment and arrest of former president Santiago Peña, who is accused of directing government funds to the bank.
[Nile Post] Transparency International Uganda has raised concern over persistent accountability gaps in public institutions, warning that weak enforcement of existing laws, inadequate supervision and institutional shortcomings continue to undermine service delivery and fuel corruption.
[Nile Post] The Special Presidential Assistant on Anti-Corruption and Legal Advisor to the President, Rebecca Atwiine, has called for stronger enforcement of accountability measures, warning that Uganda's fight against corruption will remain ineffective unless public officials implicated in wrongdoing are held accountable.
