Governance

Last month’s presidential election capped four years of relative peace in Cote d’Ivoire.

‘We are not masters of our political fate, but slaves of circumstance.

A mere two months after clashes between black youth and police in Baltimore following the murder of Freddie Gray while in police custody, President Obama’s Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the indictment of twenty-four year-old Raymon Carter for his alleged involvement in the torching of a C

After the tightly contested elections in Tanzania, there must be different thoughts running through the minds of the people of Tanzania. Besides, citizens of other Afrikan countries must be left wondering, ‘is there democracy in Tanzania?’

In the most recent incident, on 28 October 2015, the NGO Coordination Board announced the de-registration of these 959 NGOs for violating provisions of the Non-Governmental Organisations Act 1999 and for “breaching the terms and conditions attached to their certificates.” Those facing de-registr

Prof. Mesfin Woldemariam’s latest Amharic book, “Adafne: Fear and Failure”, is at once a lamentation on the decline and decay of Ethiopian society from the corrosive effects of bad governance, tyrannical rule and moral corruption and a call to action for redemption.

For the third time in close to a year, Kenya announced plans to deregister civil society groups, this time including the well-respected Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) which pioneered human rights documentation work in Kenya in the early 1990s.

On October 21, 2015, the Honorable Congressman Gregory Meeks of New York issued a press release bestowing unreserved praise on World Bank president Jim Yong Kim, stunning Black staffers in the World Bank who find these undeserved accolades groundless hyperbole and overboard at best, or an unquali

Running Nigeria is no easy feat, not even when you are Muhammadu Buhari and you have your second stint as head of state, albeit a democratically elected one.