France has faced increasing calls to withdraw its military presence from several African countries in recent years, particularly in West and Central Africa, where it has maintained a strong presence ...

Former president Olusegun Obasanjo and notable world leaders are to deliver keynote addresses at the Summit on the State of Democracy in Africa, scheduled for Wednesday May 22, at the Shehu Musa ...

A recent report by the Open Society Foundations, authored by economist and political scientist Dr. Ndongo Samba Sylla, argues that democracy in Africa cannot survive without economic justice. The ...

The Economic Community of West African States has warned that “if democracy falters in Nigeria, democracy will collapse everywhere else in the entire West African region.” ECOWAS Commission President, ...

Liberia held its general elections in 2023. The young democracy of the West African country withstood the challenge of former president George Weah’s populism. Weah had sought a second term, but ...

A wave of military coups and presidents clinging to power are two sides of the same anti-democratic coin plaguing Francophone Africa, experts say. By Ruth Maclean Reporting from Dakar, Senegal In ...

Imo State Governor Hope Uzodimma has said democracy and good governance are the panacea for tackling the protracted security challenges bedeviling African nations. He argued that democracy begets good ...

On January 20, 2025, Donald J. Trump will assume the presidency of the United States of America for the second time. As the world watches the changing of the guard between the returning president and ...

These days, a question crops up when African officials gather to discuss governance: Which president will be ousted by his military next? In the first two decades of this century, 13 successful coups ...

To judge by the tone of commentary coming out of Africa in recent times, liberal democracy could not be in a more perilous state, so perilous indeed that anywhere you look across the continent, ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — As 72-year-old Nonki Kunene walks through the corridors of Thabisang Primary School in Soweto, South Africa, she recalls the joy she and many others felt 30 years ago when they ...