Tagged: EU
Conrad Omodiagbe
Moldova Makes History With Female President-Elect
An opposition candidate in Moldova, Maia Sandu, is set to make history, defeating incumbent President Igor Dodon in a run-off vote to become the country’s first female leader. According to preliminary results announced by Moldova’s Central Election Commission, Sandu, a former World Bank economist and Moldova’s former prime minister scored an emphatic victory at the […]
Conrad Omodiagbe
EU Rejects Belarus Election Results
European Union (EU) leaders have rejected the re-election of embattled Belarus president, Alexander Lukashenko, citing allegations of election rigging from opposition and observers, as well as the country’s response to protests that have led to the death of at least two demonstrators. At an emergency summit held on Wednesday, the EU decided that it did […]
Conrad Omodiagbe
Google Offers Political Organisations in the EU new protection
After years of being exclusively available to news sites, human rights sites and election monitoring sites in the United States of America, search engine giant, Google, is offering political organisations cyber-security by signing up for its anti-web flooding technology, ‘Project Shield.’ Designed and run by Jigsaw, the cyber-security division of the search engine’s parent company […]