Current policy Madagascar is a country located in the region of Eastern Africa. See abbreviation for Madagascar. Former coup maker Andry Rajoelina governs Madagascar along with a government consisting of his party alliance We All with President Rajoelina. Since the mid-2010s, the country has experienced a less turbulent time than the crisis years 2009–2014. Investments […]
Current policy Libya is a country located in the region of Northern Africa. See abbreviation for Libya. After Muammar Gaddafi’s fall in 2011, Libya has continued to be plagued by lawlessness and chaos and in many ways the country appears to be a “failed state”. No government has at any time completely controlled the country. […]
Current policy Liberia is a country located in the region of Western Africa. See abbreviation for Liberia. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s second presidential term was largely influenced by the Ebola epidemic 2014–2015, which affected Liberia worst in the West African countries and affected the entire community. The president had a high reputation in the outside world, […]
Current policy Lesotho is a country located in the region of Southern Africa. See abbreviation for Lesotho. A serious political crisis in 2014 led to new elections the following year. The Democratic Congress (DC) won by a slight margin but its government was already overthrown after a year. In the 2017 election, Thomas Thabane from […]
Current policy Kenya is a country located in the region of Eastern Africa. See abbreviation for Kenya. Although Kenyatta was elected president in 2013, he was charged with crimes against humanity by an international court. The indictment, which was later dropped, was a result of the outbreak of violence in connection with the 2007 election. […]
Current policy Ivory Coast is a country located in the region of Western Africa. See abbreviation for Ivory Coast. The Ivory Coast has been shaken by serious unrest since the 1990s. Civil war broke out in 2002 and for several years the country was in practice divided into a southern part, ruled by Laurent Gbagbo’s […]
Current policy Guinea-Bissau is a country located in the region of Western Africa. See abbreviation for Guinea-Bissau. Ever since independence in 1974, the history of Guinea-Bissau has been marked by political chaos with military coups and coup attempts. After the last coup in 2012, most major donors withdrew their support to the country, which hit […]
Current policy Guinea is a country located in the region of Western Africa. See abbreviation for Guinea. Guinea’s democracy is fragile, but since 2010 the country has a elected president, Alpha Condé. But there are still strong tensions between the country’s largest ethnic groups, Malinké, of which Condé belongs, and Fulani, who dominate the opposition. […]
Current policy Ghana is a country located in the region of Western Africa. See abbreviation for Ghana. Ghana is one of the most stable democracies in sub-Saharan Africa. Since the transition to democracy in the early 1990s, the country has been ruled alternately by the Social Democratic National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the right-wing New […]
Current policy Gambia is a country located in the region of Western Africa. See abbreviation for Gambia. President Yahya Jammeh ruled the Gambia for 22 years with authoritarian methods after taking power in a coup in 1994. His position was strengthened by the fact that the opposition was divided, but the December 2016 presidential election […]
Current policy Gabon is a country located in the region of Central Africa. See abbreviation for Gabon. When Omar Bongo, who ruled Gabon for over 40 years, passed away in 2009, son Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba was elected new president and he has been in power ever since. The Bongo family’s long power holdings can […]
Current policy Ethiopia is a country located in the region of Eastern Africa. See abbreviation for Ethiopia. Ethiopian politics is dominated by the four groups within the old EPRDF alliance, which have often ruled the country for three decades. When Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali took office in the spring of 2018, a political thunderstorm […]
Current policy Eritrea is a country located in the region of Eastern Africa. See abbreviation for Eritrea. There were high hopes for democracy and development in Eritrea at independence in 1993. Instead, the country has come to be called Africa’s North Korea and is likened to a concentration camp. President Isaias Afwerki, who has been […]
Current policy Equatorial Guinea is a country located in the region of Central Africa. See abbreviation for Equatorial Guinea. No free and fair elections have ever been held in Equatorial Guinea. Despite repeated assurances that democracy should be introduced, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, the African leader who has been at his post for the most […]
Current policy Egypt is a country located in the region of Northern Africa. See abbreviation for Egypt. In the summer of 2013, the military deposed Muhammad Mursi who had won Egypt’s first free presidential election a year earlier. This happened after popular protests that were at least as extensive as those that drove Hosni Mubarak […]
Current policy Djibouti is a country located in the region of Eastern Africa. See abbreviation for Djibouti. Djibouti’s policies are dominated by President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh and his party Popular Collection for Progress (RPP), which is part of the ruling party coalition Union for Presidential Majority (UMP) along with three small support parties. Guelleh, who […]
Current policy Democratic Republic of the Congo is a country located in the region of Central Africa. See abbreviation for Democratic Republic of the Congo. Congo-Kinshasa was ruled in 2001 −2019 by Joseph Kabila, who took over power in the midst of a fiery war. But despite peace formally prevailing since 2003, the Congolese have […]
Current policy Comoros is a country located in the region of Eastern Africa. See abbreviation for Comoros. The 2016 presidential election was won by Azali Assoumani, who has been president twice before, including after a coup in 1999. In 2018, Assoumani announced a referendum on constitutional changes and received voter support for them. The president […]
Current policy Chad is a country located in the region of Central Africa. See abbreviation for Chad. Chad is formally a multi-party democracy, but in reality President Idriss Déby and his party the Patriotic Rescue Movement (MPS) have a firm grip on power since just over a quarter of a century. The state institutions have […]
Current policy Central African Republic is a country located in the region of Central Africa. See abbreviation for Central African Republic. Years of bitter struggle between various armed groups have throughout the independence characterized the country’s politics and hindered the building of a functioning state. Outside the capital, there is basically no legal system, no […]
Current policy Cape Verde is a country located in the region of Western Africa. See abbreviation for Cape Verde. The March 2016 parliamentary elections led to a change of government as the bourgeois Movement for Democracy (MPD) clearly defeated the Social Democratic Cape Verde African Independence Party (PAICV), which has ruled the country since 2001. […]
Current policy Cameroon is a country located in the region of Central Africa. See abbreviation for Cameroon. Paul Biya has been President of Cameroon since 1982. In the fall of 2018, at the age of 85, he was re-elected for a new seven-year term. The security situation in the country is the most important political […]
Current policy Burundi is a country located in the region of Eastern Africa. See abbreviation for Burundi. Burundi has been in deep political crisis since a contentious 2015 election, when then-president Pierre Nkurunziza was re-elected for a third term in breach of a peace agreement. Subsequently, Nkurunziza and his Hut-dominated government became increasingly authoritarian. Nkurunziza […]
Current policy Burkina Faso is a country located in the region of Western Africa. See abbreviation for Burkina Faso. In December 2015, Burkina Faso got its first civilian head of state in nearly half a century, when Roch Marc Christian Kaboré took office as new president. This could happen since Blaise Compaoré, who had dominated […]
Current policy Botswana is a country located in the region of Southern Africa. See abbreviation for Botswana. With Botswana’s Democratic Party (BDP) in power since independence in 1966, Botswana is considered a politically stable country. Ahead of the October 2019 elections, a deep crack occurred within the party, but despite the internal conflict, BDP strengthened […]
Current policy Benin is a country located in the region of Western Africa. See abbreviation for Benin. Popular dissatisfaction with high unemployment, the country’s poor economy and a series of corruption scandals led President Boni Yayi to lose the 2016 election against businessman Patrice Talon. But President Talon’s policies have also triggered social unrest. After […]
Current policy Angola is a country located in the region of Central Africa. See abbreviation for Angola. The People’s Movement for Angola’s Liberation (MPLA) has virtually full control of Angola for decades. The political opposition is weak and divided. After 38 years in power, President José Eduardo dos Santos resigned in 2017. He was succeeded […]
Current policy Algeria is a country located in the region of Northern Africa. See abbreviation for Algeria. Algeria’s politics have been dominated for half a century by the military and the National Liberation Front (FLN), which fought before the independence war in 1962 against a guerrilla war against colonial power France. Following a popular protest […]
