When the establishment retains some leverage over reformers change can be slow, superficial, and short-lived. Sudan appears to be a textbook case of this scenario.
President Felix Tshisekedi has appointed a Kabila ally to the powerful post of prime minister.
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Felix Tshisekedi must come out from under former premier Joseph Kabila’s thumb.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Zambian President Edgar Lungu meet on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in Johannesburg in 2018.
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Despite taking a step backwards, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights can redeem itself by continuing to protect the rights of LGBTQ persons on the continent
Girls have taken off, while boy struggle with an outdated idea of manhood.
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Martin Plaut, School of Advanced Study, University of London
Al-Bashir’s ability to play a skillful combination of internal and external balancing acts, plus ruthless repression and a divided opposition, kept him in power for three decades.
Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir has resigned after three decades in power.
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South Africa has a long history of women at the helm of its foreign affairs ministry but this hasn’t translated into a gender balanced foreign policy environment
Security is tight in Rwanda’s authoritarian state.
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