On September 6, 2023 the presidential election tribunal in Nigeria’s capital Abuja threw out opposition challenges to the victory of Bola Tinubu in Africa’s most populous country’s February...
Politics
Paris, Toronto (17/9 – 37) The French ambassador to Niger and other French diplomats “were actually held hostage in the French embassy” during the emergency...
Not all coups are the same — but they do have some important commonalities. A recent coup in the Central African nation of Gabon is the latest nondemocratic...
Frankfurt (11/09 – 20) Two international human rights organizations have called on the Tajikistan government to immediately release jailed lawyer and human...
A two-year deadline for the free elections promised in Gabon by the military that overthrew President Ali Bongo is a “reasonable objective”, the...