Category: Democracy, Governance and Rule of Law Program

The run-up to the October 29, 2025 general elections in Tanzania, has been marked less by contestation of ideas and more by the heavy-handed crackdown on the credible opposition. What began as …

In 2025, over a dozen African countries will head to the polls. Yet, the deeper reality is that most of these elections will be less about democratic choice and more …

From Central to the West and Eastern Africa, the continent is an electoral season likely to prove perhaps more destabilizing than armed conflict. In more than a dozen countries, among …

In recent years, West Africa’s Sahel region has emerged not only as a theatre of military coups but as a battleground in which regional order is rewritten. The military rulers …