Alpha Conde

Six months after seizing power in Guinea, the junta faces its first proper opposition

Many among the deposed African heads of state held major positions in the AU at the peak of their atrocities back home

Mali’s junta now finds itself ostracised by its regional peers – and at the centre of a dangerous new geopolitical game.

The highlights of 2021 in Africa

Alpha Condé is not the first president to have his humiliation captured on camera.

Since the coup d’état, Guinea’s head of state has been in the custody of the military officers. But it was the president who was the primary architect of his own downfall

What happened on the continent this past week

The acute nature of the pandemic has galvanised civil society to demand better accountability

The country needs to protect its democracy given that ashift to authoritarian rule is evident on the continent

October is election month as three presidents seek another term in office. For two, it will be their third

We need the eyes and ears of the international community to be alert to assaults on democracy as we run up to the election on 18 October

Citizens have for a year protested against the president seeking a third term in office despite a two-term limit. Many have been killed — and 90 more people died in this week’s…

If we do not take care, presidents will make lawlessness the standard of our civic life. Let’s make sure it does not come to that!

Guinea’s response to the coronavirus has exacerbated the country’s existing fault lines

Thirteen years after Binyavanga Wainaina’s satirical essay, many ‘experts’ on Africa continue to fail to comprehend the need for African voices