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In the recent Nigerian election WhatsApp was used to mislead voters in increasingly sophisticated ways. But it also strengthened democracy in other areas.
The ICC may be the only institution capable of breaking the current legal impasse.
A clandestine system of transfer payment, with roots in apartheid-era boycotts, has developed into routine behaviour on which many family budgets now depend.
In this case, the appropriate conclusion about the Constitutional Court’s finding against the Public Protector is that there’s much to be comforted by.
The state in Ghana still justifies taking steps that amount to suppression of the media.
By positioning himself as a loveable granddad to supporters and the punchline of a joke to his opposition, Zuma adroitly defangs the very serious charges against him.
Successes by the army and police on the Cape Flats will depend entirely on levels of cooperation established on an ad hoc basis.
Africa’s democracies have grown stronger during a period in which the world is backsliding on democracy.
The flow of unaccompanied minors from Eritrea has become the subject of international concern.
The dilemma for Zuma and his legal team is this: by putting him on the witness stand, there is a risk that he would be found wanting, especially in terms of the detail of any matter.
Understanding the political economy around maize production puts into context debates on key interventions in the value chain.
Trump and Zuma seek to sell explanations of their misfortunes to the socially insecure and economically vulnerable. To an alarming extent they succeed.
The April 1994 election proved to be a watershed for South Africa.
The biggest problem with using the military to fight rime is that soldiers are not trained for law enforcement, but warfare, using maximum force.
African leaders who have sought ICC involvement have all seen the court as being beneficial to the survival of their governments.
Ntaganda’s conviction represents real progress, and an actual significant victory, for the ICC.
A significant change in political mentality is required to shore up one of Africa’s leading lights.
South Africans may well be seduced by the prospect of Zuma appearing at the Zondo commission, but he was not alone in driving the state capture project.
At least in the short term, it looks unlikely that Jammeh will face either his victims or consequences for human rights abuses
During the apartheid period in South Africa – 1948 to 1994 – a lively intellectual culture of opposition emerged on some of the country’s university campuses and within the broader anti-apartheid movement…
Western aid has resulted in an Anglo-American culture of journalism education which has proved impractical to implement in African countries with illiberal political regimes.
It’s unclear how relations between Addis Ababa and Asmara will develop but the warmth has largely gone.
Neither French nor American, Senegalese secularism stands midway between these two models
Election to the Security Council is prestigious for member states because it gives them a seat at the highest table of global decision-making.