Tundu Lissu reacts to supporters as he returns home after three years in exile.
A united opposition could create enough momentum to unseat incumbent John Magufuli from power.
The township of Khayelitsha in Cape Town. South Africa has adopted First World COVID-19 responses for Third World reality.
Glaring capacity gaps aside, the failure to curb COVID-19 is not so much due to a lack of technical know-how but to a particular view of the world.
Ugandan police officers and members of a paramilitary force patrol the capital Kampala during the curfew.
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The ruling elites in parts of Africa are destabilising efforts to maintain order by living by their own rules
A Sudanese demonstrator at a protest in the capital Khartoum.
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The people are frustrated with a reform agenda that is unfolding at snail’s pace.
President Pierre Nkurunziza campaigning for the presidency in 2015.
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Will President Pierre Nkurunziza peacefully relinquish office after the May poll?
Kenya’s second president, Daniel arap Moi, now deceased.
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The former president’s stranglehold on the press made it very difficult for journalists to do their jobs.
A woman casts her ballot during Cameroon’s 2018 presidential elections.
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Many believe that it is only a return to the country’s two-state federation that will end the conflict and break the impasse.
The first female president of Mauritius, Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, at the Budapest Water Summit in 2016. She left office in 2018.
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In Mauritius there’s been little change in cultural norms and values to genuinely support gender egalitarianism.
Prime minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed in Addis Ababa.
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Ethiopia’s new political outfit could bring minority groups into the centre of power.
President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria (left) arriving at Waterkloof Airforce Base Airport in Pretoria. He is welcomed by Minister Naledi Pandor.
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South Africa and Nigeria have had a turbulent relationship dating back to the early 1990s.
The Chairman of Sudan’s transitional council, Lt. Gen. Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Burhan, speaks during the power sharing agreement ceremony.
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The African Union’s role in Sudan’s political crisis proves that it’s legal framework is strong enough to resolve regional disputes
A military procession accompanies the coffin of the lateTunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi during his funeral in Tunis.
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In death, President Mohamed Beji Caid Essebsi has left behind an unfinished revolution which now needs a new leader.
President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed a cabinet of political allies.
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Nigerians had hoped for a technocratic cabinet but the country’s new ministers have not offered a break from previous political appointments.
Outgoing Bissau-Guinean President Jose Mario Vaz casts his ballot in Bissau during the country’s March legislative elections.
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There are reasons to be cautiously optimistic about Bissau-Guinean politics going forward.
Women legislators in Uganda are working with their male counterparts to get their voices heard.
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Ugandan women MPs are working with men to amplify their own voices and pass meaningful laws.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in China in April. His country has been shaken by a coup attempt in its Amhara region.
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Ethiopia’s regional governance system is doing more harm than good.
President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda has engineered constitutional changes that could see him rule for life.
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The ruling National Resistance Movement has undermined Uganda’s democracy
President Muhammadu Buhari has endorsed June 12 as Nigeria’s official
Democracy Day.
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June 12 is widely regarded as the most important day in Nigeria’s post-independence poltiical history
Deputy President David Mabuza, right, could pose a potential threat from within the ANC to President Cyril Ramaphosa, left.
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The Cabinet signals to the Zuma faction that the Ramaphosa group believes their star is waning and that they are not strong enough to turn the tide.
Former First Lady Grace Mugabe representing Zimbabwe at an Organization of African First Ladies Against HIV and AIDS summit
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The presidents’ wives hold a lot of sway within the political power structure.