Robert Mattes

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People wait for a meeting with Guinea's military junta, led by Col. Mamady Doumbouya, at the people's palace in Conakry, Guinea, on Sept. 15, 2021. Guinea's junta is expected to face more pressure to set a time frame for new elections, following the president's overthrow in a coup on Sept. 5. (Sunday Alamba/AP)

MundoÁfrica

While South Africa, Senegal and Mauritius are very different societies, one thing they have in common is that surveys show their citizens are increasingly unhappy about the way their democracies are working.

Another is that huge majorities in recent Afrobarometer surveys say corruption in their country is increasing.

These parallel trends aren’t a coincidence. Afrobarometer’s 48,084 face-to-face interviews in 34 African countries in 2019-2021 suggest that as people see levels of corruption rising in their key governing institutions, they grow increasingly dissatisfied with their democracy.

In the fifth installment of our series in the run-up to December’s Summit for Democracy, we explore the extent of perceived corruption and its corrosive effects on democracy across Africa.…  Seguir leyendo »

Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and South Sudan’s president, Salva Kiir, walk during a meeting in Juba, South Sudan, on Monday. (Jok Solomun/Reuters)

MundoÁfricaReflexionesDemocracia

The bad and good news comes in almost daily. Increasingly authoritarian regimes clamp down on dissent in Tanzania and Zambia, and Togo’s Gnassingbe dynasty teeters as its opponents are bloodied in the streets. But democratic elections carried the day in the Gambia, where strongman Yahya Jammeh was forced to cede power without a shot being fired — and in Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf respected term limits and passed the torch. Meanwhile, in Uganda, Afro-beat pop star Bobi Wine has become a symbol for popular resistance and could threaten Yoweri Museveni’s three-decade rule. In Ethiopia, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed appears to be leading change with breathtaking speed, while Zimbabweans still wait — and demonstrate — for the democracy they were promised after Robert Mugabe was forced to step down.…  Seguir leyendo »