October's shocking events in Tanzania offer a snapshot of some of the tensions which have shaped a difficult year for African ...

Across Africa, contested ballots, violent crackdowns, coups d’état and military transitions morphing into long-term rule ...

Liberia held its general elections in 2023. The young democracy of the West African country withstood the challenge of former president George Weah’s populism. Weah had sought a second term, but ...

This weekend marks 30 years since Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa, officially ending the country's era of apartheid. NPR's Scott Detrow talks with journalist Redi Thlabi.

From Christmas strikes in Nigeria to peace deals and talks of trade, the US president’s diplomatic approach to the continent has been all over the place ...

In Nigeria, democracy has become a ceremony. Every four years, millions of voters cast ballots, anticipating a government ...

The spate of military coups in Africa is starting to raise concerns about the future of democracy in the region. We spoke to five political analysts in four African countries for insight into the ...

Democracy faces a decline as expansionist autocracies, populists, and degraded international norms rise. The future of ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says Africa needs a democracy of its own context that delivers to all people. Obasanjo said this on Monday in Abuja, while speaking at a Colloquium to mark the 60th ...

Macky Sall, the president of Senegal since 2012, has had a closer view than anyone of the plague of coups in Africa since 2020 and the efforts to reverse them. Two of the first putsches were in Mali, ...

One of President Biden’s final state visits was slated to be Angola this week — it would have been his first visit to the African continent as president. However, the White House announced on Tuesday ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. This past week, former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo brought together some ...