Malawi's Election Shock - The rise of Lazarus Chakwera
In 2017 Kenya annulled an election. Now Malawi has done the same and it is only the second African country to do so. Following the...
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The future for Africa's students
Countries around the world are implementing lockdown measures to slow the spread of Covid-19. More than a third of the world’s population...
What's next for Zimbabwe?
Following the announcement of Emmerson Mnangagwa’s victory in the 2018 election, there is very little indication Zimbabwe is becoming a...
Corruption and Coups: Is democracy in Africa doomed to fail?
Africa in 2017 has once again shown that its legacy of coups and corruption is unyielding: the Zimbabwe Coup, the boycotted Kenyan...
A crisis: gendered violence in South Sudan
South Sudan is currently in the midst of the worst refugee crisis Africa has ever seen. With 1.5 million individuals having fled the...
Britain’s Puritanical Drugs Policy and the Horn of Africa
Photograph: Flickr, A. Davey In 2014 the UK government, under guidance from Theresa May, moved to incorporate Khat into the Misuse of...
Africa’s lesser known terror nightmare: The story of Al-Shabaab
Photograph: Flickr / AMISOM Public Information Over the past few months, the entire world has been rigidly focused on Syria; the exodus...
Tanzania: Could it be a democratic example for the region?
Photograph: Flickr / Rod Waddington Democracy in Eastern Africa has had a difficult year. In 2015, presidents Paul Kagame, Pierre...
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