Many African countries have weak election management systems, and citizens are rightly worried about human interference in electoral processes
At the core of the Sahel coups is the removal of governments and leaders either historically not in support of the US/France or moving away from external domination
With high prices continuing to bear down on consumers the world over, leaders who fail to bring inflation to heel could face a reckoning
Leaders typically spread power among their ‘rival allies’ to keep it and co-opt enough of those elites in exchange for political support.
Africa’s last monarch has shut schools to stop student protests against his rule — but he should heed previous events that toppled other despots
Sipho Makhubela assures that the private equity firm has what it takes to raise the capital to get SAA flying again
Despite the efforts of the Arab Spring, Egypt is still led by a military dictatorship made in Mubarak’s image
The way university management handled the #FeesMustFall demonstrations offers some lessons for the Beijing administration
Morsi was often kept in solitary confinement, while struggling with both diabetes and high blood pressure
People power can break a dictatorship – but what comes next?
While celebrating people power in Algeria and Sudan, remember that revolutions are arduous and unpredictable
Africa’s population growth will cause most countries to become younger, a trend that will occur at the same time as the rest of the world ages
Technology provides African governments with new, efficient ways to deliver services
Since the Arab Spring, Egypt’s fledgling democracy has regressed. Now the country needs a new social contract
A struggling economy has forced the country to seek a USD$2.9 billion loan from the IMF, on condition that Tunisia lowered public expenditure
South Africa’s governing party is invoking concepts and emulating strategies first developed by authoritarian regimes in Eurasia
It is crucial that the student movement also aims its firepower at failures by the current government, or it will keep deflecting responsibility.
The primary structures and ideologies of domination are deeply entrenched at all levels.
Its brokers have earned their Nobel peace prize acclaim, but the truce in Tunisia is a brittle and fragile thing.
Change requires the right set of political measures and an environment of tolerance and respect.
May 25 is Africa Day. It is neither a day for Afropessimists to gloat nor one for Afro-optimists to say the African dream has been achieved.
Former Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, will no longer serve a life sentence for conspiring to murder 239 protesters in Tahrir Square in 2011.
A far longer, rich history of Africa’s civil uprisings is often missing in the analysis of today’s protests.
Front runner in Tunisia’s presidential vote, Beji Caid Essebsi, says only he can defend the country against the threat of Islamist extremism.
In a landmark election, Tunisians are voting for a new president, the first such vote since the overthrow of dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 2011.
Global leaders attended the ceremony to formally adopt Tunisia’s new Constitution as international lenders released funds to the now stable country.
Clashes in Egypt have led to the death of 49 people during rival rallies on the third anniversary of the 2011 revolt that toppled Hosni Mubarak.
The country has been seen as a model for democracy in the region but many Tunisians are growing impatient for change.
Arab interior ministers have been advised to confront the spread of extremism through social media networks with their own cyber know-how.
Dictatorships have been brought down in North Africa, but struggles for power have left a vacuum that has allowed the rise of an extremist movement.
Egypt’s opposition coalition will not join a national dialogue called by President Mohamed Morsi because the proposal was not genuine, say members.
Egypt’s President Mohammed Morsi has pardoned those charged or convicted of acts "in support of the revolution" since the beginning of the uprising.