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Ramaphosa couldn’t appoint people with a cloud over their heads, especially given his stated commitment to a clean and effective government.
Those in charge in South Africa following its recent election should focus on improving governance and weeding out corruption.
The High Court’s ruling goes against the trend of greater liberalisation in a number of African countries.
There’s been a rise in partnerships, over the past 20 years, between private security companies and police units in Kenya
President Cyril Ramaphosa has to ensure that reform of critical institutions is placed first. Everything else will be compromised if this fails.
Kidnapping in Nigeria has blossomed into a burgeoning criminal enterprise.
It’s an achievement in itself that Malawi is holding its sixth multi-party national elections since its transition from dictatorship under former President Kamuzu Banda.
The negative effects of lower levels of self-stigma can be offset by positive coping strategies.
The African Union’s policy offers no wriggle room for a discretionary response to coups, a scourge that imperils the consolidation of democracy.
The recent election has shown again that the extremism which worries democrats in much of the world has little traction in South Africa.
Despite its endurance, the Democratic Alliance still hasn’t found a firm foothold to grow the votes in South Africa’s changing political landscape.
In Nigeria, the government often uses the army to restore order and to keep the peace, largely because the police are unable to contain internal violent conflicts.
Why do once mighty political parties sometimes collapse? Two reasons that have driven some into obscurity are corruption and conflicts within the party. The ANC suffers from both.
The FF+‘s constituency is overwhelmingly Afrikaner white Protestants. But, it appears to have made inroads among coloured conservatives.
Some have argued that were the ANC to win 60% or more in this election, it would have given the party a blank cheque for further larceny
Book adds a great deal to our understanding of how children were ensnared into the Indian Ocean slave trade.
Links between groups within the Kivu province and the Islamic state are not new.
The mere presence of NGOs, no matter their size or aims, inadvertently reduced the legitimacy of local village headmen.
Community radio stations have thrown themselves into the political discussion with gusto.
The election will not change the government, but may change the balance of power between the two factions of the governing ANC, led by Cyril Ramaphosa and Jacob Zuma.
The role of the military in toppling authoritarian rulers, after intensive popular protests, raises questions about how the AU’s policy against coups should be applied.
Human rights organisations worry that the UNHCR may be helping refugees return to war zones and, as an enabler of repatriation, are helping Kenya to violate refugees’ rights
This is the age we live in, and it is crucial that fact-checkers be in place to help media consumers guard against falsehoods.
Close to 4 million teenage girls are subjected to breast ironing worldwide. This harmful cultural practice, which is most prevalent in West and Central Africa, needs to stop.