The unprecedented move creates a power vacuum that autocrats and U.S. enemies will step in to fill, writes David Koranyi.

Last year was touted as the ‘Year of Democracy’ – and amidst elections across the globe, the role of technology was ...

Mr. Chairman, members of the Committee, thank you for asking me to testify on this most important subject, the development of democracy in Africa. This hearing is timely, because there is a ...

Unfortunately in many parts of Africa, liberal democracy has morphed into illiberal democracy: free speech is routinely muzzled through various contrivances – prior restraints, use or threat of ...

The relationship between democracy and development continues to spark debate, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, where democratic nations struggle with economic hardship, rising debt, and ...

The cuts to aid are already causing widespread suffering in South Africa, where “after 30 years of democracy, not much has changed in terms of wealth ownership” and a white population with ...

President Trump has ordered a freeze on all foreign aid to South Africa in an executive order he signed Friday, claiming that ...

Digital propaganda and manipulated information by external actors erode public confidence in democracy on the continent.

No, I’m not talking about Donald Trump, but rather his wily South African analog, Jacob Zuma, whose tenure as president from 2009 to 2018 presented an existential threat to the continent’s most solid ...

Nujoma was not perfect, of course. Amending the Constitution to allow himself a third term as president in 1999 was very ...