AFRICA

‘Communities must benefit from what comes from their land’

ECONOMY | ENVIRONMENT

Sudan’s crisis spills into conflict

Battle between two military factions shows they were never serious about democratic transition

CONFLICT | CRISIS

Commonwealth Africa: LGBTQI+ rights under attack

Anti-rights reaction in Ghana, Kenya and Uganda seeks to erase LGBTQI+ people

‘We have concerns about state functions being used to dictate and define morality’

Russia’s boots on the ground in Africa

Wagner Group is spreading Russian influence – and extracting vital resources – in country after country

CONFLICT | CRISIS

Nigeria’s election: same old, same old

Young people sure to keep looking for the change that didn’t come

Sudan: there’s no democracy without civil society

More questions than answers in latest transition plan

‘The new NGO Law will be the death of the civic movement’

SOUTHERN AFRICA

Eswatini: democracy a matter of life and death

Killing of human rights lawyer Thulani Maseko the latest troubling development in absolute monarchy

SOUTHERN AFRICA

‘The abolition of the death penalty is a victory for civil society calling for respect of the right to life’

SOUTHERN AFRICA