This is the 12th edition of the ITUC Global Rights Index, the only comprehensive, worldwide annual study of the violation of workers' rights – freedoms that form the basis of the democratic rule of ...

America’s commitment to helping stabilize the Horn of Africa might have been taken for granted a few months ago. Not anymore.

The decision of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), a coalition of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, to impose a 0.5 per cent ...

In the post-coup era, political survival used to mean finding refuge in a dusty villa in Equatorial Guinea or slipping into Dubai with diamonds sewn into your suitcase. But times have changed. Today, ...

This is a paper delivered by Femi Falana SAN at regional conference on sustainable participation of youth in Governance in ...

Gabonese voters have given President Nguema a strong mandate to break with the country's past and steer economic and political renewal.Nineteen months after the military-led coup that ousted Ali Bongo ...

The history of Africa has been shaped through the emergence of various young leaders, either through democratic elections or ...

Civic spaces are shrinking under Goita’s rule, democracy activists say, as the military suspends ‘political activity’.

Why ex-bank boss Tidjane Thiam has been barred from seeking the Ivorian presidency - and the potential fallout.

Mali has suspended political activities across the country ahead of a planned protest against the military junta that has ruled since coups in 2020 and 2021, authorities said on Wednesday.