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Centralised leadership: Burkina Faso’s leader, Ibrahim Traoré, has gained popularity for asserting sovereignty, tackling security challenges and rejecting ineffective foreign influence. Photo: Stanislav Krasilnikov/RIA Novosti
AFRICA

The rise and erosion of liberal democracy

Various regions in southern Africa share a common trajectory: improvement in the first two decades after the 1990s, followed by decline

  • Joan Swart
6 min read