The countries, whose respective leaders recently won widely disputed elections, offer contrasting examples in how autocracies operate, evolve and change.
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Many believe that it is only a return to the country’s two-state federation that will end the conflict and break the impasse.
Africa’s democracies have grown stronger during a period in which the world is backsliding on democracy.
The biggest threats are the concentration of media ownership and attempts to legislate the online media environment.
Forest communities have seen little or no change in improving livelihoods and stopping deforestation.
African countries’ adoption of e-government platforms hasn’t served the majority of their citizens.
New media platforms have changed the way people create, consume and relate the news.
Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis must be addressed by the president within the first hundred days.
President Paul Biya’s credibility and legitimacy are increasingly being tarnished, amid growing support for opposition candidates.
It has been nearly three years since the Anglophone crisis began in Cameroon. The conflict has been vicious and it’s time for world leaders to act not just talk.
Some human rights activists worry that Cameroon could be the site of Africa’s next civil war.
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Professor of Media Industries, University of Nottingham
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Executive director, Africa Institute of South Africa, Human Sciences Research Council
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Professor of Francophone Studies (Africa, Caribbean), Faculty Affiliate with Africana Studies, World Literature Program and Human Rights Pracice, University of Arizona