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Benin began the formal tabulation of results on April 13, 2026, following a presidential election that saw over 7.9 million registered voters participate in a contest designed to consolidate the political legacy of outgoing President
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Voters in Djibouti navigated quiet polling stations on April 8, 2026, casting ballots in a presidential election engineered to return Ismail Omar Guelleh to office for a sixth consecutive term. The incumbent ran largely uncontested
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How institutional failure, corruption, and diplomatic drift are eroding Nigeria’s standing at home and abroad. Nigeria is governing itself into chaos. What looks like drift is in fact the outcome of choice, democratised incompetence sustained
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COTONOU, BENIN , In the wake of the failed military coup that shook the West African nation of Benin on Sunday, regional leaders and international partners are urging renewed efforts toward democratic resilience, political inclusivity
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One need not be a profound philosopher to discern the melancholy truth: Nigeria is ensnared in a cycle of hopelessness. At the close of every administration, citizens exhale in relief, only to discover that the
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Another coup attempt in Guinea Bissau. Another wave of condemnations from regional blocs and international partners. Another reminder that Africa remains trapped in a cycle it claims to oppose but has failed to dismantle. The
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A man who escaped the last functioning hospital in the Sudanese city of el-Fasher before a reported massacre by paramilitary troops says he has lost all hope and happiness. "I have lost my colleagues," Abdu-Rabbu
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A crowd runs in panic along a dusty street. Shots ring out. A woman wearing a purple jacket carrying a stick falls to the ground. Another woman can be heard pleading, "Mama, mama, stand," as
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Sudan’s civil war has entered a dangerous new stage, with fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces intensifying in ways that are pushing the country toward collapse. Nearly two years after
