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Governance

News, comment and features on governance, elections, presidents, national assemblies and democracy in the developing world

July 2024

  • Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado speaks to press after voting during the presidential elections in Caracas, Venezuela

    Maduro’s exit inevitable, says Venezuela opposition leader, as election protests grow

    María Corina Machado says president should understand he lost vote, amid international doubts over victory claim
  • Fishing vessels damaged by Hurricane Beryl at the Bridgetown Fisheries in Barbados in July 2024.

    Opinion
    ‘Smarter money’ is the key that will unlock the promise of Africa and the Caribbean

    Kenneth Mohammed
    Regions’ vast potential is being blocked by the need for better investments, key partnerships and reforms to global finance

    • Rwanda's Paul Kagame cruises to crushing election victory

    • Torture, starvation, rape: Moi’s Kenya and the dark legacy of Nyayo House

    • Three people die after arrests at election protests in Mauritania

May 2024

  • Aidan Rose

    Other lives
    Aidan Rose obituary

    Other lives: Academic who sought to build a strong foundation for public service in Ukraine
  • Rishi Sunak (left) and Paul Kagame outside No 10 in April.

    Rwanda’s top UK diplomat oversaw use of Interpol to target regime opponents

    Exclusive: Johnston Busingye formally appointed days after UK agreed Rwanda asylum deal with Paul Kagame in 2022
  • Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno puts a ballot paper in a container surrounded by security staff and people holding up phones and cameras inside a white tent

    Chad’s military leader Itno declared president as results contested by rival

    Prime minister, Masra, accuses officials of manipulating results that show he won 18.5% of vote to Itno’s 61%

April 2024

  • Separate lines of Indian men and women queueing under lines of bunting

    Opinion
    As India goes to the polls, can democracy deliver a better life for all of its people?

    Kenneth Mohammed
  • Somalia's president, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud

    Somalia accused of ‘threatening national unity’ with new constitution

March 2024

  • Protesters in masks and suits waving wads of fake cash and carrying placards in Spanish while others wave Panama's flag

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Green power: young environmentalists look to shake up Panama’s politics

    Buoyed by forcing the closure of a vast copper mine, a new generation of eco-conscious candidates are taking on the ‘shameful and corrupt’ status quo in May’s general elections

February 2024

  • Police in riot gear intervene against opposition supporters in Senegal.

    ‘Democracy has been thrown out the window’: paranoia stalks the streets of Dakar after ‘constitutional coup’

    Tensions are high in Senegal amid a security crackdown as President Macky Sall postpones elections until December

January 2024

  • Everlyne Siololo during routine car clean her work place on 12th October,2023 in Ripoi conservancy Transmara,Narok County in Kenya

    The age of extinction
    ‘We said, there must be ladies’: the pioneering Maasai women ending all-male leadership of the land

  • Magnifying glass over the United Nations Development Programme UNDP company logo

    Rights and freedom
    UN staff on £1.5bn Iraq aid project ‘demanding bribes’

December 2023

  • A group of largely female protesters, many in balaclavas wave placards and flags as a woman in the front

    Rights and freedom
    ‘They violated our rights’: Chile’s draft constitution fails women, say activists

    Last year, a liberal constitution to replace the Pinochet-era one was rejected. Now a referendum will be held on a new draft that curbs abortion rights and enshrines Catholic morality. Here, five women reflect on 2019’s protests and the struggle for equality

October 2023

  • An African man in glasses, a suit and bow tie, poses for a photograph

    Africa’s ‘optimist-in-chief’ on the continent’s renaissance: ‘Don’t just believe me, believe the data’

    In an exclusive interview, Akinwumi Adesina, head of the African Development Bank, says the outlook is good for a continent with the workers of the future and the best investment opportunities
  • Dominica passports

    Dominica: Passports of the Caribbean
    Revealed: thousands who bought ‘golden passports’ through Dominica’s $1bn scheme

    Former Afghan spymaster, convicted millionaire and former Libyan colonel among those who became Dominican citizens
  • A man reads the Juba Monitor, which reports the murder of South Sudanese journalist Peter Moi in 2015 in Juba.

    South Sudan ‘attacking’ journalists and activists who criticise the state

    UN report on human rights violations says security service monitoring of the media could hamper elections in 2024

September 2023

  • President Emmerson Mnangagwa announces new cabinet<br>epa10855011 Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa announces his new cabinet at the State House in Harare, Zimbabwe, 11 September 2023. Mnangagwa won the 23 and 24 August 2023 elections. EPA/AARON UFUMELI

    Zimbabwe’s president accused of nepotism after appointing son and nephew

  • Counter-terrorism strategy CONTEST 2023 launch<br>Home Secretary Suella Braverman during her speech in Westminster, London, for the launch of counter-terrorism strategy Contest 2023, which has been updated for the first time in five years. Picture date: Tuesday July 18, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Terrorism. Photo credit should read: Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire

    Britain punishing poorer nations that sell citizenship is simplistic and destructive

    Kenneth Mohammed
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