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How tenure elongation and a lack of term limits weakens the integrity of elections in Africa

Sitting presidents shouldn’t be given a window to legally hijack their countries

Ayisha Osori

The Federation of Governing Bodies of South African Schools (Fedsas), has hit out at the ban. (File photo/MG)

Some African countries are choosing livelihoods over lockdowns

The methods that work in Western nations rarely translate into African contexts

Chude Jideonwo
Damola Morenikeji

People’s temperature are being measured at a border between Abuja and the Nasarawa State on March 30 2020, after Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari called for a lockdown to limit the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. – Over 20 million Nigerians on Monday scrambled to prepare for lockdown in sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest city Lagos and the capital Abuja, as the continent struggled to curb the spread of the coronavirus. President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered a two-week “cessation of all movements” in the key cities in a bid to ward off an explosion of cases in Africa’s most populous country. (Photo by Kola Sulaimon/AFP via Getty Images)

The realities of politics, testing and mitigation in Africa

Covid-19 has a much different effect on the continent than it does elsewhere

Utibe Effiong
Akpabio Akpabio

SOS: Covid-19 leaves stranded Africans distressed and abandoned

Many African governments have paid little more than lip service to their citizens stranded all over the world

Amindeh Blaise Atabong

(Luke Dray/Getty Images)

AFRICAN GOVERNMENTS

Students ‘abandoned’ in Wuhan

Africans living in China want to be evacuated

Simon Allison