Uganda's Supreme Court convened to begin adjudication of the disputes over the presidential election that occurred the previous month in the country.Voting took place on 23 February. Two days later, ...

“We call this a despotic order.” None of the nine African countries ranked as “free” by Freedom House, a pro-democracy group, is a former French colony. And half of the continent’s 20 ...

BY ISAH ALIYU CHIROMA The Regional Partnership for Democracy (RPD) represents a timely and essential initiative in ...

Seven out of the 15 countries that showed the biggest deterioration in the quality of their political environment over the last 12 months were African. They are the Democratic Republic of Congo, ...

South Africa’s democratic decline is evident in a democracy index published by EIU, our sister company, on February 15th. It showed that South Africa ranked 47th out of 167 countries in the ...

The stakes are high in South Africa, the largest industrialized country on the continent, following the formation of a coalition between the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) and the ruling ...

learning from African countries (for instance, should it take a cue from Somaliland and lower the legal voting age?) even as it continues to help strengthen their democratic forces and institutions.

"In democratic commitment, Africa outpaces Asia ... don't want the military to govern their country. "But that opposition is weakening", as more Africans are also willing to tolerate military ...

How we did this This Pew Research Center analysis focuses on views of democracy in 31 countries across the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, North America and sub-Saharan ...

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In Africa, democratic performance has generally remained ... which is one of a growing list of West African countries where the military has taken power, accusing the elected governments of ...