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Abiy Ahmed was awarded the prize for efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea.
Research has a distinctive role to play because it gives pointers on what is needed to create long-term change.
Although Nigeria and South Africa are often cast as rivals they have a strong bilateral relationship
Protests in Ghana are often misunderstood which is why the root causes need to identified.
Crony capitalism became firmly embedded under Ben Ali, benefiting his family and close friends.
Africa has already felt the effects of Donald Trump’s climate change denialism. Recent events are also raising political issues of keen interest among the continent’s democrats.
New evidence has made possible a more accurate estimate of how many African personnel have died since the Somalia mission deployed in March 2007.
Although cynical about today’s political leaders, the views of young South Africans are surprisingly similar to those of the mid-1990s.
Megaproject construction has been a major response to globalization in the urban realm.
Kenya announced plans in 2017 for a long-term action plan to end the institutionalisation of children.
The South African Broadcasting Corporation, like South Africa itself, is a symbol of contradictions. While there are bad people who work for it, there are also many good ones.
The DRC’s state and public administration didn’t disappear, but changed: they were being built from the ground up, tailor-made to local actors’ interests.
The writing and adoption of a constitution is merely the start point, not the end of constitutional literacy
The role and efficacy of the traditional crime-prevention measures in Iraye-Oke are widely acknowledged by people who live in the area.
More than two out of three displaced people are not refugees, but remain within their own country.
Resettlement plans for large infrastructure projects don’t always go according to plan.
At first glance, it would seem like nothing has changed since 1991. Yet, things have been slowly and discreetly evolving in recent years at Morocco’s behest.
Urban dwellers who live in informal city settlements have limited access to basic services, and many of them don’t own the land they live on.
Xenophobia negates the spirit of pan-Africanism, especially its ideal that Africans share a mutual bond, regardless of their geographical location.
While not all men are willing to become involved in women and children’s health, some situations force them take on ‘women’s work’.
The IFP’s constitution provides that the nomination of national office bearers be approved by the branches. But this was not done in the nomination of its new president.
It remains to be seen how much longer the ‘old men syndrome’ will persist in Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa, despite growing frustration among the politically powerless.
Banditry in northern Nigeria is making an already precarious security situation in the region worse.
Government policies need to acknowledge individual agency as a mechanism for change, while reducing barriers to income-producing activities.