A Not-for-profit organization under the aegis of Institute For Education For African Democracy (ILEAD), based in Chicago, ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has lauded the contributions of the West Africa Democracy Solidarity ...

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said impartial electoral commissions and non-partisan security operatives are key to conducting credible elections in the West African sub-region. Jonathan made ...

The creation of ECOWAS was driven by the collective desire of member states to address their common challenges and harness ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has historically maintained a strong record of regional norm-setting on governance and democracy. Yet the regional bloc now faces significant ...

One year after accepting the job, the first woman and the first African to head the Open Society Foundations finds time ...

A political mission sent to Guinea-Bissau by West Africa’s regional bloc to resolve an electoral dispute has left the country ...

African democratisation, democracy and elections are hindered by interventions from the West. That is why countries in West Africa have pushed back French influence through military juntas to ...

Captain Ibrahim Traoré is the interim leader of Burkina Faso, having taken over the position following a coup which he led ...

But nowhere is this backsliding more potentially consequential than in Africa, where the continent's 54 countries appear to be undergoing a pronounced drift away from democracy—with profound ...