Wednesday 11 May
As Haiti’s president-elect Michel Martelly takes office in Port-au-Prince tomorrow, current President René Préval will step aside. Normal though it may seem, this will be the first time in Haiti’s history that a president…
Friday 2 April
When Kenneth Kaunda stepped down as president of Zambia in 1991 he did something no other African head of state had ever done before.
Friday 9 October
Arizona State University, never the most scholarly of American institutions, caused a modest commotion this spring after announcing plans to deny its graduation speaker the typical recognition of an honorary degree.
Sunday 25 September
Celebrities have used it to gossip, activists have used it to inform of uprisings, but only Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez has used Twitter to govern.
What's on the Mexican president's tarmac, who's nuts for Brazil and why cars are too quiet in America.
Thursday 28 July
Glued to their televisions, Peruvians watched the inauguration of Ollanta Humala, the country’s new president.
Monday 21 February
A rare battle for the UN presidency is gaining momentum between two Asian nations whose situations couldn’t be further apart.
Wednesday 12 October
Khreshchatyk Street. Kiev’s main drag, a soviet-era boulevard adorned with buildings in the neoclassical style so favoured by Stalin, is Ukraine in a nutshell.
Tuesday 1 March
For nearly two years, there have been nearly unanimous verdicts among Republicans on virtually every aspect of Barack Obama’s policymaking.
Thursday 10 March
Uganda’s elite red beret troops weren’t taking any chances.
Thursday 17 February
Josefa Iloilo, the former Fijian president whose scrapping of his island nation’s constitution cemented the grip of a 2006 military coup that isolated his country, has died aged 91.
Tuesday 1 February
A week to the day since the country was swept by anti-government protests, Hosni Mubarak is bracing himself for the biggest challenge yet to his rapidly crumbling presidency.
Tuesday 12 October
You might wonder whether a visit from Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who arrives in Beirut today, is really what Lebanon needs right now.
Thursday 22 April
In 2005 it was voted the safest city in Latin America and shortly before that the best city in the region to do business in. But it would win some very different titles this year. The wave of drug-related violence in Mexico…
Mexico’s new president has drafted a bold to-do list for his country: end poverty, fight crime and radically change worldwide opinion. Monocle caught up with Enrique Peña Nieto in Italy’s capital to find out how he intends…
Friday 6 January
South African President Jacob Zuma still sings a song, Umshini Wami (My Machine Gun) from his time as a commander of the armed wing of the ANC at every public meeting.
Wednesday 7 October
Rumours are sweeping Kazakhstan that President Nursultan Nazarbayev is gearing up to make himself President for Life.
Hungary’s foreign affairs minister discusses the challenges facing his country’s EU presidency, the importance of an increased role for central Europe and his government’s reputation for media bashing.
Style tips from Libya's Great Style Leader and why watching TV in Lebanon can be fatal.
Paraguay’s establishment was shaken by the election of Fernando Lugo as president but his dubious removal after four years in power has failed to silence the outspoken former Catholic bishop. He spoke to Monocle on the eve…
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