Navigating Sudan’s Transition
One hundred days into his tenure as Prime Minister of Sudan, H.E. Dr. Abdalla Hamdok is poised to be the first Sudanese head of government to be welcomed by… Read more »
Category: Africa
Youth in the vanguard of civic activism?
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Algerian authorities to “immediately and unconditionally” release the numerous peaceful pro-democracy activists who have been detained since September. Some of those arrested include… Read more »
Central and Southern Africa: Civil Society’s Role in Democratic Governance
As a leader on a policy reform project I worked on in Africa a few years back, I learned many things, writes Adeola Akinremi, Director of Strategic Communications at Policy… Read more »
World has more but weaker democracies: Backsliding ‘a growing malaise,’ report says
“Despite the continued quantitative increase in the world’s democracies, the quality of the world’s democracies is eroding,” the Stockholm-based International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) concludes in its… Read more »
How global refugee crisis challenges democracies
Forced migration has reached unprecedented levels around the world. While unique migration crises’ geographic origins range from South America to the Middle East, each crisis shares a common root cause—the… Read more »
Countering kleptocracy – from the inside out
The toxic relationship between the Russian and British elites is something that needs full exposure. They have been collaborating to their mutual enrichment, and to the detriment of democracy and… Read more »
Countering Truth Decay: Digital tech leaves democracy in ‘permanent flux’
Hillary Clinton says she’s “dumbfounded” that the U.K. government has failed to release a report on Russian influence in British politics before the country holds a national election next month…. Read more »
A new infrastructure of democracy? Open societies’ resilience is strategic priority
Had Ronald Reagan’s Westminster speech merely articulated the case for democracy, it would be remembered as one of many well-written and inspiring presidential addresses. It was, on the contrary, much… Read more »
Angola’s austerity likely to generate social unrest, civil society warns
Civil society activists in Angola are warning that economic stringency is likely to generate social unrest. Rafael Marques de Morais, the head of the NGO Maka Angola, (Friends of Angola), denounced the… Read more »
A new ‘Totalitarian Temptation’? Authoritarians rely on ideas too
Sudan’s transition promises to be anything but easy. Economic problems that sparked initial protests in 2018 still await complex solutions, and the state bureaucracy remains weak. How will the military… Read more »