Authoritarian Regimes & Africa

The regime of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali in Ethiopia has been locked in a conflict with the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front...

Since the wave of independence in the 1960s, African countries have faced numerous instances of debt distress in which they could not...

To gain insight into Russia’s governance model in Africa, one only need look at the experience of the Central African Republic. Russian...

Here at Democracy in Africa we are delighted to be launching one of our Special Issues, this time looking at the question...

The assignment was tough but do-able. The brief: to shoot a documentary film about the activities of the Wagner Group, a notorious Russian mercenary...

When the "third wave" of democratisation swept across much of Africa in the aftermath of the Cold War, hopes were high that...

The 82 coups Africa experienced between 1960 and 2000 were devastating for the continent—contributing to the instability, corruption, human rights abuses, impunity,...

It’s been 20 years since the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation was first held. Another summit is planned for September 2021 in Dakar,...

The China–Angola relationship was forged for purely pragmatic reasons at an opportune moment of mutual need in the early 2000s. For that...

The recent spate of coups in Africa has generated considerable attention and concern. Between 1999 when the African Union (AU) was established...