Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni extended his 30-year grip on power after winning with nearly 62% of the votes. Supporters of main opposition candidate Dr. Kizza Besigye who received 35% of the votes and former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi who came in third with less than 2 percent of the vote, claim the results are a "sham". Delays during the voting procedures would have been a deliberate strategy by Museveni supporters, aimed to block people from voting. Dr. Besigye was arrested four times since the elections of 18 February and is now under house arrest for trying to prove the alleged rigged vote. Several clashes between the police and Besigye supporters followed, resulting in multiple arrests. US and EU foreign observers have criticised the election process. The list of the winners for the parliamentary seats who have so far been declared winners is not as interesting as the list of the losers as more familiar names have already lost the elections and the list of the familiar names includes 17 ministers.

Following the European Council meeting on EU-UK relations on 19 February, Prime Minister Cameron announced the EU referendum to take place on June 23. Few Conservative MPs, together with the Labour Party, Scottish National Party, Plaid Cymru, and the Lib Dems, said they will stand by Cameron’s preference to stay member of the EU, while others, including members of the Conservative Party, expressed their intentions to support campaigns favoring leaving of the Union. The UKIP representatives said it is a "golden opportunity" for the UK to be independent of Brussels.

The internationally unrecognised break-away region of South Ossetia, de iure still part of Georgia, announced it would hold a referendum on joining the Russian Federation. The declared President of the region Leonid Tibilov stated the referendum is driven due to concerns of NATO expansion and so called anti-Russian and anti-Ossetia rhetoric from Georgia. The region has stated earlier it was planning to hold a referendum. It is unsure if the Russian Federation would accept the outcome in case of a positive vote in the illegal referendum. The region already declared independence in 1992 and Georgia effectively lost the remainder of its control over the region after the Georgia-Russia war of 2008, when Russian troops drove out Georgian forces in both South Ossetia and Abkhazia. 

During the primaries held in South Carolina for the Republicans and in Nevada for the Democrats on 20 February 2016, both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton came out as winners. For both it means a second victory, which increases the chances to secure the Republican and Democratic nominations for the Presidency in 2016. While Trump with 33% of the votes had a double digit lead over Marco Rubio that won 23% of the votes, Clinton established a narrow victory by winning 52,6% of the votes as Bernie Sanders got 47,3% of the votes. As a result, an eventual face-off between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton becomes more likely in 2016, although it still remains to be seen who will come out as winners during next primaries, especially during the so called ''Super Tuesday'' primaries hold in March during which most delegates can be won.

After Iranians raided Saudi Arabia’s embassy in Teheran last month for executing a Shi'ite Muslim cleric, Saudi Arabia has now cancelled arms deals worth of €4bn to Lebanon for not supporting Saudi resolutions against Iran. While the relationship between Lebanon and Saudi Arabia extends for well over nine decades, Lebanon’s political division between the Sunni-led coalition and the Iran-backed Shia Hezbollah movement has proven a strong obstacle in their diplomatic relations. Saudi Arabia long has been suspicious of Iran, which supports Hezbollah and Syria’s embattled President Bashar Al Assad. The United Arab Emirates stand by Saudi Arabia’s decision and both countries have urged their citizens to leave Lebanon. Lebanon's Prime Minister Tammam Salam is hoping for reconsiderations.

The Heads of State or Government of the EU Member States gathered for the European Council meeting, chaired by Donald Tusk, on 18 February. The debate was dominated by the deal with the UK and the ongoing migration crisis. The result of the summit is a legally binding and irreversible decision, which confirms the UK`s ’special status’ in the EU. The deal revolves around topics of competitiveness, economic governance, sovereignty and social benefits and free movement. It allows the UK, among other measures, to impose limits on in-work benefits for EU workers and to place restrictions on non-EU family members of EU citizens who apply to come to the UK. At the same time, the next Treaty amendment will exempt Britain from the notion of an "ever-closer union".