A year on from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, governments that have pledged to track down sanctioned Russian elites’ wealth must be publicly accountable about the measures they have taken –… Read more »
Will Nigeria’s two-party system tremble? AFP asks (above). Africa’s most populous nation has known its share of bruising campaigns, but never since the 1999 return to democracy has there been… Read more »
The outcome of the election, scheduled for February 25th, will reverberate far beyond Nigeria’s borders, The Economist reports. A free and fair vote in the continent’s biggest democracy would send… Read more »
Africa is grappling with democratic backsliding, according to recent studies. In 1985 there were only three democracies while there were 42 authoritarian regimes on the continent. By 2015, the number… Read more »
The Belgian government this week honored civil society activist Rafael Marques de Morais for his work in combatting endemic corruption in Angola. The founder of Maka Angola and former Reagan-Fascell… Read more »
Tundu Lissu, Tanzania’s leading opposition figure, returned home on Wednesday after more than two years in exile, one of the strongest indications yet that efforts by the East African nation’s… Read more »
The last several years in Africa have been marked by both encouraging democratic highs and troubling anti-democratic lows, according to the latest Afrobarometer survey: Bright spots include the Gambia’s successful… Read more »
Civil society activism in Africa can sometimes seem like an exercise in empty sloganeering: “mobilizing the grassroots”, “empowering the youth”, and so on, The Economist observes: Not in Sudan, where… Read more »
“This is a consequential election,” said @NEDemocracy‘s @DamonMacWilson. “What happens here matters; it first of all matters to #Nigeria but it can have a real impact on the development of… Read more »
After Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, kleptocrats are increasingly weaponizing corrupt networks, relying on opaque shell companies, and turning to professional enabling services to allow them to continue their theft,… Read more »