Former South African President Jacob Zuma deployed spies in factional battles within the governing party.
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Revelations show that the State Security Agency did little to safeguard the country and much to protect Zuma’s political faction and to funnel public money into private ends.
Internally displaced persons gather for government briefing in South Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the scene of violent clashes between rival communities since 2019.
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Because ethnic territories are a major source of political friction and persecution in the world, it’s important to investigate how they are created and used in conflicts.
Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa meets his Chinese counterpart President Xi Jinping in Beijing, in 2018.
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The more President Mnangagwa’s government fails to engage democratically with its own citizens, the more it will negate any prospect of re-engagement with the West.
Campaign posters of President Yoweri Museveni hang on a cable a day after the election commission said he won a sixth term in office.
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Museveni’s attempt to gain support in urban areas in the 2021 elections was not only about repression. But it still failed.
Nigerian Navy Special forces pretend to arrest pirates during a joint military exercise with the French navy.
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Sea piracy often grabs the headlines, but it is just one of many symptoms of insecurity at sea.
Ali Mohamed Gedi (left), then Somali prime minister, speaks during a meeting with clan elders to discuss the surrender of weapons from the Mogadishu community in 2006.
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While the insurgent group rebuffs talks on the national stage, it frequently negotiates local issues with the government and other groups through senior clan elders.
Following an inconclusive election in December 2020, Niger’s Independent National Electoral Commission is set for a runoff in February.
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Although Niger’s quest for entrenching democracy is a good development, poverty and insecurity are obstacles.
Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, also known as Bobi Wine, addresses supporters in Uganda’s capital Kampala.
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Opposition presidential candidate Robert Kyangulanyi has repeatedly been underestimated by government supporters and critics since he first ran for parliament.
Ugandan musician-turned-politician Robert Kyagulanyi addresses the media after his car was shot at by police in eastern Uganda during his campaign.
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Never has a political contest in Uganda’s history been so furiously played out in the media space as the 2021 national elections.
Ugandan soldiers shoot at demonstrators during riots in Kampala sparked by the arrest of opposition leader Kizza Besigye in 2011.
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Uganda must overhaul its national legal framework on the use of force and firearms during law enforcement.
An Ethiopan soldier mans a position near Zala Anbesa in the northern Tigray region of the country, about 1,6 kilometres from the Eritrean border.
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Conflict between Eritrea and Tigray has long represented a destabilising fault line for Ethiopia as well as for the wider region.
Members of the Amhara militia ride in the back of a pick up truck, in Mai Kadra, Ethiopia, on November 21, 2020. Amharas and Tigrayans were uneasy neighbours before the current fighting.
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Had the national government and Tigray state government attempted to engage in intergovernmental dialogue, things might have turned out differently.
Former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Thabo Mbeki share a light moment at a meeting of the G8 and developing nations in Tokyo in 2000.
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Former presidents Obasanjo and Mbeki have arguably made the most important contribution to Africa in the 21st Century by promoting peace, democracy, regional integration and pan-Africanism.
Students of St. George’s Girls’ Secondary School in Nairobi.
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Our findings suggest that it is time to take Kenyan youth seriously as politically important actors.
A group of protesters demanding better governance in Nigeria just as the country marked its 60th Independence Day anniversary on October 1, 2020.
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Although it’s failed to deliver democracy to citizens, Nigeria is not the collapsed and disintegrated entity which a 2005 US National Intelligence Council analysis predicted it would become by 2020.
Former DRC President Joseph Kabila, left, congratulates his succesor, Felix Tshisekedi, on his inauguration in January 2019.
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After endless, futile negotiations with the Kabila camp, Tshisekedi appears to have finally recognised the limits of the coalition government and has lost patience.
John Magufuli (centre) waves as he arrives to give a speech at a campaign rally in August 2020.
President John Magufuli won a second term by a contested landslide and looks set to take even greater control of Tanzania’s democratic space.
Kaduna state has experienced several violent attacks and destruction of property.
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Conflicting groups in Kaduna can only achieve peace if they negotiate based on the value and inherent dignity of the human person.
South African civil society organisations march against xenophobia in Johannesburg in 2019.
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Radio and television were found to be potentially highly influential in promoting positive public attitudes towards immigrants.
The state can do better to protect Ghanaian journalists
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The need for safety of the media and the fact that they reserve the right to convey stories about any subject is uncontested.