Nigeria’s Buhari suppressing rights – with impunity
Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff said terrorism could persist in the country for the next twenty years after Boko Haram claimed responsibility (HT: CFR) for killing dozens of farmers in… Read more »
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Nigeria’s Obidient movement: A youthful revolution?
Will Nigeria’s two-party system tremble? AFP asks (above). Africa’s most populous nation has known its share of bruising campaigns, but never since the 1999 return to democracy has there been… Read more »
Can a political underdog renew Nigeria’s democracy?
The outcome of the election, scheduled for February 25th, will reverberate far beyond Nigeria’s borders, The Economist reports. A free and fair vote in the continent’s biggest democracy would send… Read more »
Summit follow-up crucial to prevent another ‘Scramble for Africa’
At last week’s U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, Senegalese President Macky Sall, the African Union chairman, thanked President Biden for his commitment to Africa, AP reports. But he also criticized pending U.S…. Read more »
Africans’ democratic aspirations ‘cannot be taken for granted’
Analysts say the United States must leverage its diplomatic clout to play a “moral guarantor” role at this week’s U.S. Africa Leaders Summit while engaging Africa’s youth to better defend… Read more »
Are coups contagious?
Coups have a nasty track record of prompting more coups. Transitional governments in Africa are still struggling with entrenched military privileges — and insurgent and extremist violence continues to proliferate,… Read more »
Lessons for Sudan from Nigeria’s ‘militarized democratic experiment’?
Africa’s latest emerging democracy, Sudan, deserves the benefit of Nigeria’s experience, its civilian opposition having recently signed a pact of diarchy — supposedly transitional — with the military, argues Nigerian author… Read more »
‘Warlord democrats’ threaten Africa’s democratic moment?
In the 60-plus years since the countries of sub-Saharan Africa started becoming independent, democracy there has advanced unevenly. Even as some countries in the region have grown into success stories,… Read more »
Can data safeguard Nigeria’s democratic integrity?
Facebook is under fire in Africa for undermining democracy, with critics saying the social media giant has allowed its platform to be weaponised for co-ordinated misinformation campaigns, the BBC reports,… Read more »
Winning back trust in Nigeria’s rescheduled elections?
The two major parties contesting Nigerian presidential and parliamentary elections, originally scheduled for last weekend but delayed at the last moment, have said they will continue campaigning despite a… Read more »