With a young population set to double by 2050, it is the only rapidly growing region where its people are getting poorer.

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The Open Society Foundations’ latest report, ‘Analysis of the Nexus between Democratic Governance and Economic Justice in Africa’, authored by Senegalese development economist Ndongo Samba Sylla, ...

A military leader in Burkina Faso reads a statement on national television after a coup in September 2022. (Credit: RTB via AP.) Listen YAOUNDÈ, Cameroon – While acknowledging that a recent wave of ...

Africa has become a battlefield between democracy and authoritarianism. As things stand right now, the autocrats are winning. In the shadowy recesses of international politics, Africa is often ...

Liberia held its general elections in 2023. The young democracy of the West African country withstood the challenge of former president George Weah’s populism. Weah had sought a second term, but ...

Various regions in southern Africa share a common trajectory: improvement in the first two decades after the 1990s, followed ...

When Secretary of State Antony Blinken articulated a broad vision for U.S. diplomacy on September 13 at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, he contrasted the United States’ ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says Africa needs a democracy of its own context that delivers to all people. Obasanjo said this on Monday in Abuja, while speaking at a Colloquium to mark the 60th ...

When the Soviet Union collapsed nearly a quarter-century ago, it led to triumphalism about the "end of history" and the ultimate victory of liberal democracy over other forms of government. Since then ...