Politics & Governance

Polling stations opened across Guinea on June 1, 2026, for a set of elections that most observers regard as the most consequential political test the country has faced since the transition agreement that followed the 2021 coup. Legislative and municipal elections — long delayed, repeatedly rescheduled, and now finally underway — will determine whether Guinea’s

At least eleven people were killed in a mass shooting in South Africa on Sunday, in what police are describing as a targeted attack on a social gathering in the East Rand area east of Johannesburg. Officers arrived on the scene to find multiple casualties; the death toll rose through the night as several of

In Yaoundé, the corridors of power have grown eerily quiet. Paul Biya, Cameroon’s 91-year-old president who has ruled the central African nation with an iron grip since 1982, has not appeared in public for several weeks, sparking an unprecedented wave of speculation about his health and the future of a country already wrestling with multiple

Ethiopia’s sixth general election since 1995 will unfold across more than 47,000 polling stations this week, but a combination of war, displacement and donor fatigue has left the international community largely absent from a contest that will shape the Horn of Africa for the next five years.

Eighteen years after the post-election violence that killed more than 1,100 Kenyans, ethnic-profiling rhetoric is creeping back into the country’s political discourse. Civil society groups warn that without a credible national response, the conditions for another crisis are quietly assembling.

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A remarkable display of political unity has descended on the Comoros archipelago — but for a deeply uncomfortable reason. Six former prime ministers of the Indian Ocean island nation have issued a joint call for the urgent medical evacuation of former President Ahmed Sambi, who they say is suffering from a serious illness that requires