Good governance is the missing link in Nigeria’s democratic experience since 1999.
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The push for national trials reflects a disappointment with the slow pace and high costs of international justice.
The Kenyan state has historically viewed forests in terms of production and economic development – not biodiversity and conservation.
Energy firms are likely to lie about their corporate social responsibility to the environment. Their deception can be turned around for good if they are held accountable.
Foreign agent laws claimed as a tool to fight back against foreign interference can also be used to silence critics and repress law-abiding NGOs, independent media and individuals.
Discrimination against anyone based on their sexual orientation or gender identity is not an African value.
A scholar who visited Syria after the earthquake observes that as the war has dragged on, a humanitarian organization she’s researched for 10 years has branched out.
Neil Agget’s passionate trade unionism proved fateful. It made him a target of a brutally repressive apartheid police state.
The spy watchdog needs to make its findings on complaints against the country’s intelligence agencies public as a matter of principle.
Many people accept the Egyptian government’s restrictions on freedoms, for a variety of conflicting reasons.
A scholar of humanitarianism sums up what she saw on the ground during a five-week research trip to Poznań, Lublin, Warsaw, Krakow and several smaller cities along the Poland-Ukraine border.
Ghana’s civil society has contributed to taming the power of a strong state.
The guilty verdict on Blaise Compaoré should be celebrated as a landmark victory for democracy and peoples’ movements in Africa.
The scale of the Guptas’ rapaciousness meant that, within just a few years, the institutions they leeched were in a state of collapse.
The willingness of the executive to pre-empt criticism by amending COVID regulations has arguably strengthened its position.
These organisations are ideally placed to contribute their fine-grained local knowledge. They intimately understand the specific needs of the most vulnerable in their communities.
South Africa’s public sector works somewhat better than those of most other middle-income countries. Yet, unlike them, it has not managed to achieve gains in the midst of messiness.
In this moment of crisis, South Africa urgently needs decisive action. But all too often South Africans of all political stripes seem trapped in stale discourses.
A UN working group on cybersecurity is making incremental progress in highlighting the importance of including and protecting civilians.
How can democratic nations help fledgling democracies and others struggling against the tide of autocrats?
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