Zambia’s election was not supposed to end like this. For much of the campaign, President Hakainde Hichilema looked well-placed to secure a second term. Instead, the country has emerged from the 13 Aug...

Democracies should not assume middle powers are natural allies, since many are autocracies that do not share their interests, goals, and values, the authors argue.

The CAB3 Reckoning: Voices on Zimbabwe’s Democratic Future

Authoritarian cooperation is reshaping the global order.

Authoritarian cooperation is reshaping the global order.

Authoritarian cooperation is reshaping the global order.

Uganda wählt unter massiver Repression. Politologe Cheeseman erklärt, warum das Regime so hart gegen Bobi Wine vorgeht.

Authoritarian cooperation is reshaping the global order.

In a grim spectacle of electoral farce and brutal repression, Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan pulled the plug on the internet just as her regime executed a massacre that could claim up to 8,0...

Guest lecture for the Birkbeck Criminology Seminar Series

After years of easy credit and ambitious projects, Kenya’s debt has reached dangerous levels.

While many blamed President John Magufuli for throwing the country off its democratizing track, the truth is that the party that has ruled Tanzania for six decades has always been authoritarian.

Since 2020, the evasion of term limits has been twice as frequent in sub-Saharan Africa as in any other region of the world, new research paper says

Odinga was both a remarkable figure and an embodiment of Kenya’s political contradictions.

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Zambia’s leadership is pushing to implement constitutional changes that civil society groups believe will preserve the ruling party’s dominance.