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Under these conditions, popular dissatisfaction with the European Union (EU)’s crisis management grew, and anti-EU and anti-refugee/immigrant ideologies were strengthened. Since 2015, the politicisation of migration in the EU has been a complex,...

A stark increase in conflict-related deaths had already been observed prior to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, overturning a five-year decline since the peak of the Syrian civil war in 2014.Notably, battle deaths spiked by 45% between 2020 and 2021,...

The scope of these intentional efforts to distort the information environment for a political end is accelerating. The 189 documented disinformation campaigns in Africa are nearly quadruple the number reported in 2022.Actors driving sophisticated...

Marked annually on March 8, IWD is one of the most important days of the year to celebrate women’s achievements, educate, and awareness raise about women’s equality, call for positive change advancing women, lobby for accelerated gender parity,...

The above excerpt describes the socio-political climate prevalent in Africa. Since the early 1990s when many African states went through the third wave of democratisation characterised by a return to multi-party system, the process of democratisation...

In modern times, the electoral process constitutes the closest approximation to a method of citizen oversight of the government. Under the umbrella of democracy, elections are organised, carried out, and adjudicated through several distinct formal...

The announcement of political party funding rekindled the old debate about the connection between funding of political parties as a way to enrich democracy in Botswana. In addition, Botswana’s opposition parties have always decried the fact that...

In the first two days after the January 26 ICJ Order was issued, for instance, 373 Palestinians were killed in Gaza, the majority of them children and women.We should not be surprised that Israel has defied the ICJ. It has defied it before. Israel...

In the last two decades, China has been one such country that has been targeted by Western powers (the USA in particular) through the mainstream media to discredit the country’s reputation in the international community.For many years, the world...

Two-thirds of these elections are packed into the last quarter of the year. A series of elections in southern Africa, where a single party has long dominated, may see their first transition of power while others may lose their legislative...

The DRC’s Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) has declared incumbent President Félix Tshisekedi the winner of the country’s presidential election with 72% of the vote. The resounding figure would seem implausible given the strong...

It is disheartening to state that leaders of 14 African countries have held onto power for more than two terms after evading term limits. This continues a pattern of term limit evasion observed since 2015, reversing an evolving trend of term limit...

The Israelis were trying to compromise US-Egyptian relations, particularly the efforts of the Eisenhower administration to finance the Aswan Dam.In the 1980s, the Israelis denied that Jonathan Pollard was spying on behalf of the Israeli intelligence;...

Examples here include violent elections in countries such as Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Zimbabwe and others where the attendant search for redress through official and unofficial responses has, altogether, been largely trapped in deepening...

The greatest failure of its “Forever Wars,” however, may not be in the Middle East, but in Africa. “Our war on terror begins with al-Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found,...