Politics & Governance

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 […]

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Three years ago, President Bola Tinubu walked into Nigeria’s Presidential Villa and signed what became known as the Subsidies Are Gone order — a single executive action that abolished the fuel subsidy that had defined Nigerian politics for decades and, within days, sent the price of petrol more than doubling at the pump. It was

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The Mosque and the Protests Burkina Faso’s ruling military junta has ordered the closure of one of the country’s largest and most historically significant mosques in Ouagadougou, triggering protests that resulted in dozens of arrests and drawing scrutiny to the boundaries between religious freedom, political control, and military governance in the Sahel state. The move

Ethiopia is preparing to vote on June 1 in an election that political observers are watching with growing scepticism, even as the governing Prosperity Party of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed eyes what analysts expect to be a commanding victory at the ballot box. The election arrives against a backdrop of relentless pressure on dissent, media

From the streets of Nairobi to the border checkpoints of an East African capital, a familiar pattern is emerging. Cameras are going up. Facial recognition software is being installed. Police forces are receiving training packages from Chinese technology firms — and in many cases, the bill is being picked up by African governments themselves, often

East African governments are intensifying efforts to restrict the import of used clothing, a trade that has sustained millions of livelihoods across the region while simultaneously undermining efforts to build domestic textile industries. Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda have each pursued variations of import restriction policies over the past decade, with mixed results, and the current

Burkina Faso’s military junta has dropped all charges against a prominent journalist who was sentenced to three years in prison for what international press freedom groups called a politically motivated prosecution, in a development that has been welcomed as a positive signal even as concern remains about the broader trajectory of media freedom under the