Governance
The Mo Ibrahim Foundation released preliminary findings from the 2026 Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG), showing improvements in anti-corruption scores across 26 African countries.
Governance
On June 25, 2026, flowers returned to the streets before the chants did. Outside Kenya’s Parliament, families of young people killed during the 2024 anti-government protests gathered to lay wreaths on police barricades that had once separated demonstrators from the state.
Governance
Niger’s ruling military junta, has taken a step that is raising difficult questions across the Sahel. The government has provisionally stripped exiled opposition figure Mariama Djibrine of her nationality, accusing her of inciting revolt and collaborating with foreign powers.
Governance
In late June, Senegal’s National Assembly approved a package of constitutional amendments designed to rebalance power within government. Among the most significant changes are proposals to prevent the President from serving as the leader of a political party while in office...
African Progress
The global conversation on reparations has been trapped between two narratives. To some, it represent a moral obligation owed to the descendants of slavery & colonialism. To some, it is viewed as an impractical attempt to assign responsibility for historical crimes to contemporary societies.
Governance
France is weighing reciprocal diplomatic sanctions after Burkina Faso moved to sever its remaining diplomatic relations with France, escalating one of the most significant diplomatic disputes in West Africa this year.
Migration
Ghana’s evacuation exercise for citizens affected by xenophobic violence in South Africa has come to an end. Coordinated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in collaboration with South African authorities and diplomatic missions
Governance
For many communities across northern Nigeria, insecurity is no longer an occasional disruption. It has become part of daily life. Recurring attacks by armed groups, mass kidnappings, and deadly violence have continued to affect several states, forcing thousands of people to flee their homes...
Governance
Democracy is often judged by how elections are conducted. But in many African countries today, the deeper test is no longer about how leaders come into power. It is about what happens when they are challenged by the very institutions meant to regulate that power...
Governance
The African Union Commission concluded a high-level benchmarking mission focused on Zimbabwe’s Heritage-Based Education 5.0 Model, with the goal of exploring how similar reforms can be adapted and localized across other African education systems.
Governance
Africa’s ballot box is losing its liberatory power, morphing into a tool for regime survival. From Ethiopia’s exclusionary June 2026 polls to Guinea’s junta-led “transition,” elections are increasingly engineered to entrench elites. The cost is capital flight, fractured trust, and democratic erosion
Governance
The executive Cabinet of South Africa has approved the submission of a statutory bill aimed at repealing 149 colonial and apartheid-era justice laws, marking a significant step toward restructuring parts of the country’s legal system.