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The U.S. Can Still Promote Democracy in Africa
America’s democracy was pushed to the brink by four years of President Donald Trump. Now, having overcome that challenge, Joe Biden’s administration should not only strengthen democratic institutions at home, but also unapologetically promote them abroad. There is nowhere better to start than in Africa. → Read More
The U.S. Should Bid Biya Goodbye
It’s time for Washington to renegotiate its ties with Cameroon's absentee leader. → Read More
The Retreat of African Democracy
African democracy is in for a rough 2019. → Read More
Africa’s Attack on Internet Freedom
While Washington turns a blind eye, autocrats across the continent are muzzling their citizens online. → Read More
Ethiopia Is Falling Apart
Tepid reforms and halfhearted concessions won't save the country's authoritarian government from its existential crisis. → Read More
Is Kenya’s Election Debacle a Failure of Technology or Good Governance?
The debate over the technological challenges that seemingly doomed Kenya’s August election has tended to ignore the poor governance and lack of respect for democratic rights that prevail in Kenya. These larger issues allowed the election to fall well short of democratic standards in the first place. → Read More
Is Kenya’s Election Debacle a Failure of Technology or Governance?
The debate over the technological challenges that seemingly doomed Kenya’s August election has tended to ignore the poor governance and lack of respect for democratic rights that prevail in Kenya. These larger issues allowed the election to fall well short of democratic standards in the first place. → Read More
To Ensure Its Democratic Transition, Gambia Will Need Justice—and Reconciliation
In December 2016, Gambia elected an opposition presidential candidate for the first time. But in order to consolidate its newfound democracy, former President Yahya Jammeh must be held to account. Can the new government bring justice to the victims of the former regime while also reuniting and rebuilding the country? → Read More
To Ensure Its Democratic Transition, Gambia Will Need Justice—and Reconciliation
In December 2016, Gambia elected an opposition presidential candidate for the first time. But in order to consolidate its newfound democracy, former President Yahya Jammeh must be held to account. Can the new government bring justice to the victims of the former regime while also reuniting and rebuilding the country? → Read More
Gambian Protests Put Jammeh's Human Rights Record Into The International Spotlight Okayafrica.
Gambians are no strangers to state-sanctioned violence, torture, and other human rights abuses → Read More
Qatar Claims No Migrant Workers Have Died for the World Cup. Could That Be True?
Allegations of corruption at the highest levels of FIFA has put the spotlight on the 2022 World Cup host's human rights record. → Read More
U.S.: Shiite Fighters in Iraq Are a Necessary, if Unlikely, Ally
America’s point man on the Islamic State maps a way forward after the fall of Ramadi. → Read More
‘I Can’t Believe I’ve Lost My Family’
The human costs of the Saudi Arabian-led bombing campaign in Yemen are immense. → Read More
The Pentagon Anthrax Scandal Is Getting Worse by the Day
U.S. Defense Department officials said on Wednesday that a total of 51 laboratories in 17 states, the District of Columbia, and three foreign countries have… → Read More
Why Technology Hasn’t Delivered More Democracy
New technologies offer important tools for empowerment — yet democracy is stagnating. What’s up? → Read More
Daniel Bekele and Jeffrey Smith
In the past few months, the West African nation of Gambia, not much bigger than Connecticut, has received an unusual amount of international media coverage. → Read More
Obama should embrace Africa’s democratic standard-bearers
Lawmakers in Washington must change America's age-old patronizing approach toward Africa → Read More
Why Does Erykah Badu Perform for Dictators?
On Tuesday, singer and international pop icon Erykah Badu went on an epic—and thoroughly perplexing—Twitter tirade to defend her actions in Swaziland last week. Badu, who claims to be a “civil rights advocate,” has been slammed by several human rights organizations for performing for the last absolute monarch in Africa, King... → Read More