Tag: democracy

Serbia’s populist President, Aleksandar Vucic has announced that early general elections in the country will be held in the next three to four months. He reiterated that he will resign ...

Zimbabwe's lower house of parliament has approved a controversial constitutional amendment that would extend presidential terms from five years to seven years, a move that could allow President Emmerson Mnangagwa ...

UK’s independent fact-checking charity, Full Fact. has warned that UK democracy is under “immense and increasing strain” due to the rapid rise of artificial intelligence-driven misinformation, with just 3% of ...

Author: Dr. John Osae-Kwapong, Democracy and Development Fellow, CDD-Ghana, and Project Director, the Democracy Project Three years ago, I wrote an article in the African Journal of Public Administration and Management ...

Nigeria’s ruling party, All Progressives Congress (APC), is set to kick-start its primaries today amid rising tensions nationwide, exposing deepening cracks within the party as it prepares for the 2027 ...

Legal practitioner and civil rights activist Osagyefo Oliver Barker-Vormawor has called on the National Democratic Congress government to take urgent action against what he describes as the growing criminalisation of ...

The Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference has strongly defended the right of religious leaders to speak on national issues such as illegal mining (galamsey), insisting that the Church has both a ...

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his Spanish counterpart Pedro Sánchez, along with Ministers from their cabinets, have signed 15 agreements ranging from trade and satellite connections to ...

President of Ghana, HE John Dramani Mahama, has outlined a clear vision for Ghana, emphasising that democracy must translate into tangible benefits for every citizen. Speaking at Yonsei University in ...

Ghana’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has reaffirmed the government’s commitment to Operation Recover All Loots (ORAL), insisting that the initiative is progressing steadily and must succeed if ...