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Zambia’s leadership is pushing to implement constitutional changes that civil society groups believe will preserve the ruling party’s dominance.
In Botswana women represent 54% of eligible voters, but about 10% of candidates. Political parties could change that.
Plus, what’s happening in Chad, three months after rebels killed the president, Idriss Déby.
Ethiopia’s party system is extremely volatile due to the prevalence of weakly institutionalised and fragmented political parties.
After endless, futile negotiations with the Kabila camp, Tshisekedi appears to have finally recognised the limits of the coalition government and has lost patience.
Although the Nigerian government has announced the disbanding of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, protesters have not let up. They are now calling for wider reforms.
President Alassane Ouattara (78) has been blowing hot and cold on whether he’ll be seeking a third term.
South Africa’s numerous interventions in Lesotho contribute to the acrimonious nature of its political culture.
The doctrine of equality is ingrained both in theory and in the express provisions of Lesotho’s constitution.
One year after the 2019 general elections in Nigeria, courts and not the electorate, are busy deciding actual winners of the polls.
The country has not had a seat at the Security Council table for 24 years.
When the establishment retains some leverage over reformers change can be slow, superficial, and short-lived. Sudan appears to be a textbook case of this scenario.
Al-Bashir’s ability to play a skillful combination of internal and external balancing acts, plus ruthless repression and a divided opposition, kept him in power for three decades.
Gabon’s strongman president, Ali Bongo, is barely clinging to power after contested elections, a stroke and a coup attempt. The Bongo family has run this stable central African nation for 52 years.
A dictionary of African politics reveals the witty and insightful political terminology that people in different African countries use.
The African Peer Review Mechanism got off to a good start, but enthusiasm soon waned.
Nelson Chamisa has the opportunity to foster peace, tolerance and democracy within Zimbabwe’s main opposition party.
South Africa’s electoral commission’s failure to ensure a credible voters’ roll threatens to undo its legacy of free and fair elections.
For many Zimbabweans Robert Mugabe will remain a contested figure.
Top contributors
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Professor of World Politics, SOAS, University of London
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Public Affairs, Tshwane University of Technology
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor in Political Science, University of South Africa
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Visiting Professor and Professor Emeritus, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor and Head of Department of Political and Conflict Studies, Nelson Mandela University
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Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of South Africa
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Steinberg Postdoctoral Fellow in International Migration Law, Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, Faculty of Law, McGill University
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Yarik Turianskyi is Manager of the Governance and African Peer Review Mechanism Programme at the South African Institute of International Affairs and guest lecturer in African Governance and Eastern European Politics, University of Pretoria
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Emeritus Associate Professor in Public Law, UCT. Visiting Adjunct Professor, WITS School of Governance; Director, Africa Programme, University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, University of Cambridge
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Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Leicester
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Lecturer, Nelson Mandela University