governance

Part of rebuilding U.S. democratic institutions is fighting for them abroad. Uganda, where an aging ruler has evolved from reformer to tyrant, would be a good place to start.

After the national disasters of Idi Amin and Milton Obote it seemed inconceivable that Ugandans would again let another tyrant petrify their populace for more than thirty years running. But that is what has happened in...

The West African nation's fight against corruption started bearing fruit when political will, supported by international partners, began mixing with digital technology. Can Sierra Leone be a model for the rest of Africa?

When defenceless farmers are butchered in one fell swoop, harvesting their crop, does the sheer suggestion that they met their deaths because they did not seek military cover not speak to the parlous state of a...

Buhari is himself a Muslim and member of the Fulani ethnic group, which along with the barbaric Boko Haram jihadists, is responsible for Christian killings going on unhindered under his watch.

Japan's foreign minister will visit 4 important African countries in renewed Indo-Pacific strengthening of diplomatic ties and trade relations. While South Africa, Mozambique, Mauritius and Tunisia are tops in Japan's priority, Nigeria, the...

The growing list of West African dictatorships in the guise of democracy includes Nigeria, Cameroon, Togo, Guinea, Cote d'Ivoire and Mali. Recently Burkina Faso in a draconian legislation by the regime of President...

October, Mwalimu month in Tanzania, commemorating Julius Nyerere, "father of the Nation," is upturned in horror as full blown tyranny is unleashed with presiding dictator Magufuli's blatant rigging of the presidential election and incarceration of leading...

While the #EndPoliceBrutality movement sweeps across the states, the Nigerian Army, another vile organ of state repression, headed mostly by Northern elements loyal to the civil dictatorship of general Muhammadu Buhari, have turned round to threaten...

For Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria citizens may cry themselves hoarse but his utterly corrupt regime is unwilling to unbundle its police gang of criminals called SARS daily stealing, murdering and kidnapping the people for ransom.