The youth-led protests of 2025 were not the first time the Malagasy people created a window of opportunity for change.
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When countries expand their military budgets or enter into conflict, the costs go far beyond equipment and munitions.
Despite its stark reality, there is a potential path forward for Sudan if peace can be found.
We can’t prevent continued global warming without reaching net zero carbon dioxide emissions. New climate simulations show what might happen when we get there.
Many countries in West Africa do not have up to date census surveys.
Nigeria must strengthen its democratic institutions and improve governance for economic development.
The peasantry still provides almost all the resources of the party-state, yet most of the agrarian policy decisions are taken without consultation.
A new book explains the manifestations of the oil curse in Nigeria and Angola since independence.
Most researchers use the UN’s Human Development Index to measure each country’s progress, but that system has flaws. A new, simplified index aims to do it better.
The Law and Order Index says South Africans feel less secure than people in Yemen, the DRC and Libya, countries all affected by violent conflict.
But often these new ‘forests’ have only grown thanks to increased deforestation abroad.
The Rwandan model can’t be replicated easily given that it depends heavily on political dominance and tight, centralised control of patronage networks.
The middle class concept in Africa has remained vague and limited to number crunching. The minimum threshold for entering it in monetary terms was critically vulnerable to a setback into poverty.
Namibia contributes a positive image to Africa in governance and other indicators. But the reality for most of the country’s 2.3 million people isn’t quite as rosy.
The creation of a UN special rapporteurship on the right to development should help develop practical solutions on how the right could be realised.
Even though three women have recently been appointed to powerful positions in Japanese politics, gender parity in the country is a long way off.
Whenever the crisis in Burundi is discussed, the economy is often overlooked, even though it is central to understanding the backdrop to the most severe crisis since the end of the civil war.
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