The use of military tribunals to try civilians was one of the issues that made people rise against then Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in ...

The final chapter summarises some of the findings of the previous country analyses, against the background of the conceptual pair of extractive ...

This report places the 1997 elections in a longer-term historical perspective dating back to independence, with a view to assessing the democratisation ...

This article assesses political developments in Ethiopia after its 2005 federal and regional watershed elections. Although an unprecedented ...

With the world record in coup d'états[i] and a modern history of revolution and repeated uprisings it can also too easy to dismiss ...

The military has seized power under the banner of 'unity and harmony' to defend the constitutional monarchy. In the short term, they have won. In the longer run, the outcome is much less certain.

If democracy curbs corruption, why is Bangladesh so corrupt? Despite the widespread perception that democracy reduced corruption, the empirical ...

We did not see them growing up. We did not think these jaded middle-class boys and girls would one day be resilient and hold their ground. We ...

The Government of Tanzania is looking for the best policies and institutional designs to turn future petroleum revenues into welfare, development ...

Read the public address of Gen Salva Kiir Mayardit on his return from the official visit to the United States of America.

Driven by solidarity and national pride, the Lotus Revolution pulled order out of chaos. By now the military chiefs know that citizens who took control of their lives and future will know how to do to it again.

Anne Hellum and Rachel Sieder share perspectives, experiences and thoughts on gender justice and legal pluralities in Africa and Latin America based on long-term fieldworks and extensive scholarship on the subject.

Last year, discontent voters managed to get rid of Zambia's contested president Rupiah Banda. What is the success formula for overthrowing a regime based on electoral authoritarianism? Part of the answer lies in the urban masses.

More than twenty years after the return to democratic rule in Latin America, the military in many countries in the region are now being prosecuted ...

Violence against women has emerged as arguably the single most important focus for both gender programming and women’s rights activism ...

My focus of analysis is Islamist democracy as conceived by the Sudanese Islamist Hassan al-Turabi. I aim to explore and understand Turabi's ...

When societies go from military dictatorship to democracy or from internal armed conflict to peace, one of the toughest choices facing the government in the new order is how to deal with past violence. Great hopes have been pinned on transitional justice mechanisms, but the anticipated positive effects of transitional justice mechanisms on the process of restoring peace or (re)constructing democracy may be too high.

On 19 March, Farkhunda was lynched by an angry mob on the streets of Kabul. She had been falsely accused of burning the Quran. In a swift trial, four men were sentenced to death, eight to 16 years in prison. The Farkhunda trial is a statistical outlier. In Afghanistan, few men are punished for violence against women.

The aim of the research project “Elections and Democracy in Africa” is to contribute to a comparative understanding of the challenges ...

Violence against women is widespread in Angola. This brief presents the main findings in a recent study of how violence against women is playing ...