Conventional campaigning strategies usually involves spending millions of dollars, but at a much lower cost the internet is increasinly becoming an influential tool for people running for office.
With Lebanon’s presidential elections underway, never more so has Facebook and YouTube played a larger and decisive role in Lebanese political affairs.
Al Jazeera’s Rula Amin reports from Beirut where traditional election campaigning is evolving.
Royal Dutch Shell is to go on trial in a US court over alleged crimes against humanity and exploitation of the oil-rich Niger Delta more than 10 years ago.
The Dutch oil giant is accused of sponsoring a terror campaign by Nigerian security forces that led to the death of activist and author Ken Saro-Wiwa along with eight others in 1995.
President Obama arrived in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday. His next stop, in Egypt, will feature a highly-anticipated speech in Cairo.
The impending speech has generated controversy over everything from choosing the authoritarian state as a location to what the president may say about Israel and the Palestinians.
But as Worldfocus partner Link TV’s Mosaic program reports, Egyptians are working hard to make their capital picture perfect, right down to the street level.