What has taken place in northern Kenya during the last two general elections is not democracy but merely an electoral process that can be best described...
As the recorded number of infections in Africa edges towards the six million mark, it has become clear that COVID-19 is not only a public health...
Alfie Hancox writes how the apparently progressive post-war government in the UK which delivered unprecedented social security simultaneously undermined progressive political futures in the Global South...
During thirty years in the cold of non-recognition as a state by the international community and the African Union, Somaliland has engineered a unique hybrid democracy...
Ms Atsango Chesoni, constitutional lawyer, former member of the constitution of Kenya Committee of Experts (COE) and a former Executive Director of the Kenya Human Rights...
In the last 25 years, the nations in the horn of Africa have enjoyed a winding path towards perfecting free and fair models of choosing leaders....
In a far-reaching long-read, writer and commentator Yusuf Serunkuma argues that ‘democracy’ in Africa is not just a language of (colonial) exploitation, it is the practice...
We may not be aware of it yet, because of the hold the nation has on global media, but America’s decline appears to be terminal.
The IIAG report concludes that 2020 was a terrible year for democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa where political freedoms have deteriorated over the last decade, with citizens...
In recent months it has felt like election rigging has run riot. Citizens killed, beaten and intimidated and election results falsified in Uganda. Ballot boxes illegally...
Kenyan civil society has played a critical role in holding the State to account and in promoting a human rights-based approach to governance.
Noam Chomsky’s keynote speech at the Progressive International’s inaugural summit.
