President Hakainde Hichilema has won a second term in Zambia's 13 August election, but his party left little to chance.

A mass crossing from Morocco to Spain's exclave of Ceuta on 30 July triggered a political and social media storm that overshadowed the deaths of over a hundred people.

The UN General Assembly recently voted to reappoint Volker Türk as High Commissioner for Human Rights, making him the first person to serve two terms since the post was created in 1993.

When India's Chief Justice branded unemployed young people as 'cockroaches', Gen Z turned the insult into a rallying call.

The Trump administration's latest attack on the International Criminal Court seeks to use diplomatic and economic pressure to persuade states to quit.

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has declared he'll hold no more elections, abandoning any pretence of democratic legitimacy.

Burkina Faso's military leader, Ibrahim Traoré, has told his compatriots to forget about democracy.

Thanks to sustained advocacy, campaigning, community organising and litigation, female genital mutilation is in retreat across most of the countries where it is practised.

Iran is executing an average of two people a day.

The latest World Cup has been thrilling.