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Six things you should know about Gabon’s election

Kelechi Amakoh - April 11, 2025

On April 12, will Gabon step toward democracy, or remain under military rule?

Why African women view China’s influence differently than men

Ann Karreth and Johannes Karreth - January 29, 2025

Here’s what explains the very different outlook on greater Chinese engagement in Africa.

Long-serving African presidents say the people want them to stay on. Is that true?

Boniface Dulani - November 4, 2021

The third in Afrobarometer’s special democracy summit series on Africa.

Michela Wrong’s new book explores the 2013 murder of an exiled Rwandan official

Laura Seay - August 12, 2021

Extensive interviews reveal more about the country’s campaign against dissidents

Rwanda’s government now uses the annual genocide remembrance as a political tool

Gretchen Baldwin - April 7, 2021

Over the next 100 days, the government will actively remind citizens of the ethnic divisions that left hundreds of thousands dead

A longtime leader in Ghana has died. Jerry John Rawlings leaves a complicated legacy.

Jeffrey Paller and George Bob-Milliar - November 14, 2020

He was an authoritarian who then won two multiparty elections

Democracy matters for health care. Here’s how we measured this.

Tom Bollyky, Tara Templin, and Simon Wigley - March 21, 2019

The effects are greatest for chronic diseases.

Sometimes autocrats strengthen their power by expanding women’s rights. Here’s how that works.

Daniela Donno and Anne-Kathrin Kreft - November 23, 2018

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Africa’s big new free trade agreement, explained

Landry Signé - March 29, 2018

[caption id="attachment_71592" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Rwandan President Paul Kagame, chairman of

Did Xi Jinping just become China’s strongman? Not quite.

Joseph Wright, Erica Frantz, and Andrea Kendall-Taylor - March 13, 2018

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/world/chinese-president-positioned-to-rule-indefinitely/2018/02/25/fe8eec10-1a58-11e8-98f5-ceecfa8741b6_video.html What does it mean that the Chinese Communist Party