Amid the capitulation of legislatures and elections rendered meaningless, grassroots organising can save democracy.

Mali’s twin crises of governmental legitimacy and state fragmentation are a tragic reminder of the dangers of judicial ...

A wave of military coups and presidents clinging to power are two sides of the same anti-democratic coin plaguing Francophone Africa, experts say. By Ruth Maclean Reporting from Dakar, Senegal In ...

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

one of the most intriguing paradoxes of African democracy is that it is those countries that are most democratic that are most unequal. Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa, three of the continent’s ...

Abiy Ahmed, the country’s messianic prime minister ... Amid rising violence and strains on democracy, a third worry haunts Africa: debt distress. Overall government debt in sub-Saharan Africa ...

At the same time there’s been a worrying democratic decline in some countries and regions, most markedly north Africa. This is marked by an increase in military regimes, a rise in violent ...

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 ...

“Africa is suffering from a governance ... support democracy and would like to see stronger democratic institutions in their countries. In the same study, 74 percent said they reject 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 ...