Eastern Africa

The HORN International Institute for Strategic Studies hosted the webinar Rethinking Elections and Democratic Practice in Eastern Africa: Crisis, Adaptation, and the Future of Political Participation,

As global attention is focused on the coups and metastasizing Islamist insurgencies in the Sahel, democracy is rapidly unraveling in East Africa. Governments have detained the main opposition leaders in …

The re-establishment of the East African Community (EAC) on July 7, 2000 signaled a new era of cooperation in the East African region. Unlike the previous founding instrument of the …

The two-day state visit to Kenya by Tanzania’s President, Samia Suluhu Hassan that concluded on Wednesday May 5, 2021, marks a turning point to the diplomatic and bilateral trade relations …

As she settles into her role, Tanzania’s new President Samia Suluhu Hassan will need to walk the fine line of distinguishing herself from her predecessor without inflaming an already tense …

Kenya has withdrawn from the maritime border case with Somalia before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), whose official public hearing began at the Court on March 15, 2021. The …

Unlike the other 10 presidential candidates of the just-concluded election in Uganda, President Yoweri Museveni, who came to power in 1986, was seeking a sixth term. In December 2017, the …

As Tanzania gears towards its parliamentary and presidential elections, scheduled for October 28, 2020, a new report by Amnesty International has revealed how the state is using repressive laws to muzzle the …

COVID-19 outbreak in the Central African Republic (CAR) struck amidst efforts to implement a peace deal – the Political Agreement for Peace and Reconciliation in the Central African Republic (APPR-RCA). …

The sudden death of Burundi’s former President Pierre Nkurunziza of COVID-19-cum-cardiac-arrest on June 9, 2020, has furthered the divinity-disease discussion about the role of the behavior of believers of all …

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