South Africa’s 2026 local government elections should force the country to confront a question more consequential than which party will control which municipality: who...

This is my fourth year working in South Africa, during which I have visited various informal settlements and townships across this country. On this...

Dr. Lin Chia-lung Minister of Foreign Affairs ROC (Taiwan) The rules-based international order is under growing strain as authoritarian states seek to weaken its safeguards and reshape...

There is a particular kind of Mt Kenya politician Kenyans have grown used to: loud, combative, permanently at war with State House, and beloved...

The African Union was founded on an idea larger than borders. It emerged from the painful recognition that Africa's colonial fragmentation had weakened its...

Besigye served as Yoweri Museveni's personal physician during the bush war that carried the National Resistance Movement to State House in 1986. He held ministerial rank in the government that followed. And for the better part of the last twenty-five years, he has been the person that same government most wants silenced.

President William Ruto's reported directive to prohibit foreign nationals from operating small businesses in Kenya may sound politically attractive in a room full of...