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Corruption and Coups: Is democracy in Africa doomed to fail?
Africa in 2017 has once again shown that its legacy of coups and corruption is unyielding: the Zimbabwe Coup, the boycotted Kenyan...


A crisis: gendered violence in South Sudan
South Sudan is currently in the midst of the worst refugee crisis Africa has ever seen. With 1.5 million individuals having fled the...


Africa’s lesser known terror nightmare: The story of Al-Shabaab
Photograph: Flickr / AMISOM Public Information Over the past few months, the entire world has been rigidly focused on Syria; the exodus...


Tanzania: Could it be a democratic example for the region?
Photograph: Flickr / Rod Waddington Democracy in Eastern Africa has had a difficult year. In 2015, presidents Paul Kagame, Pierre...
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