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"Rule of Law"
Spotlight
published by Paul Nantulya
on January 2, 2024
The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s chaotic elections failed to break the country’s long legacy of fraudulent polls and plunged the government into a fresh crisis of legitimacy.
Spotlight
published by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies
on December 6, 2023
Senegal’s culture of military professionalism has been the outcome of a deliberate and long-term effort to inculcate values of service, meritocracy, and respect for democratic values.
Spotlight
published by Daniel Eizenga and Katie Nodjimbadem
on November 28, 2023
The highly controlled constitutional referendum organized by Mahamat Déby’s military junta appears intended to provide a degree of credibility to the military’s plans to hold power indefinitely.
Spotlight
published by Paul Nantulya
on November 7, 2023
The Nyerere Leadership School, supported by China’s Central Party School, provides ideological training to cadres from African liberation parties that have governed uninterrupted since independence.
Spotlight
published by Paul Nantulya
on October 30, 2023
China envisages professional military education in Africa as an opportunity to promote China’s governance model while deepening ties to Africa’s ruling political parties.
Spotlight
published by Paul Nantulya
on October 11, 2023
Citizen-led efforts to remedy the fraudulent Zimbabwean election are testing SADC’s commitment to upholding democratic electoral standards in Southern Africa.
Spotlight
published by Paul Nantulya
on September 29, 2023
To break the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s long legacy of stolen elections, the country’s independent oversight institutions, civil society, and media will need the backing of SADC and international democratic actors.
Spotlight
published by Paul Nantulya
on August 14, 2023
African countries have played an overlooked role shaping the UN international system, remain committed to preserving and improving it, and oppose efforts to destabilize, dismantle, or overturn it.
Spotlight
published by Nate D.F. Allen
on August 9, 2023
African-led peace operations have been vital tools for managing Africa’s complex array of security challenges, though continued reform is needed to intervene more decisively in the continent’s most devastating conflicts.
Infographic
published by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies
on July 31, 2023
A 50-percent spike in fatalities tied to militant Islamist groups in the Sahel and Somalia over the past year has eclipsed the previous high in 2015 when Boko Haram was at its most lethal phase.
Spotlight
published by Paul Nantulya
on May 22, 2023
China’s expanded police engagements in Africa could have potentially far-reaching consequences for African security governance.
Spotlight
published by Paul Nantulya
on April 18, 2023
South Africa’s layered oversight processes afford an institutionalized means of holding senior leaders accountable for allegations of misconduct—and offer insights for upholding the rule of law elsewhere.