Tanzania’s president, Samia Suluhu Hassan Following decades of electoral authoritarianism, registered political parties in Tanzania have been unleashed to organise and hold rallies to discuss their political ambitions including criticizing government and the dominant Chama Cha Mapinduzi party. This is…
Sierra Leone Parliament. (Photo by Cocorioko) The presidential elections in Sierra Leone are less than six months away and will be the first under the newly enacted public elections Act 2022. Presidential elections will go simultaneously with the elections of…
This study was driven by the desire of ACFIM to obtain coherent understanding of the forces at play that constrain and protect civic space within which citizens and citizen organisations… VIEW REPORT HERE
Civic space is the physical, virtual, legal, regulatory, and policy space where people can, among other things, securely exercise their rights to the freedoms of peaceful assembly, association, and expression, in keeping with human rights. VIEW REPORT HERE
Zambia’s capital, Lusaka. The Republic of Zambia is one of the co-host countries for the second Summit for Democracy alongside the United States, Costa Rica, the Netherlands, and the Republic of Korea on March 29-30, 2023. Zambia is handling the…
Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame during the 2017 Presidential campaigns. (Photo by The Independent) Come September, 2023, Rwandans will hit the polls to elect their representatives to parliament. Often referred to as the land of a thousand hills, this fast-growing economy…
Nigerians need democracy not moneycracy It is now apparent that the Independent National Electoral Commission of Nigeria (INEC) did not have enough time to fortify the department of Elections and Party Monitoring in order to effectively enforce the campaign finance…
As election campaigns heat up in Nigeria ahead of the February 25, 2023 polls, social media has been weaponized by some political parties and candidates to spread disinformation and misinformation. Prominent social media influencers are making a money kill from…
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) offices that were recently attacked. (Photo by Ripples Nigeria). As Nigeria gets closer to her seventh general elections scheduled for February 2023 since returning to electoral democracy in May 1999, insecurity and attacks at the…
President Lazarus Chakwera during election campaigns in June 2020. Photo by The Economist. Whereas Malawi has experienced numerous political changes since the election of Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera in June 2020, the one thing that remains constant is the lack of…
