Morocco has recorded more than 947,760 COVID-19 cases since 2 March 2020, second on the continent to South Africa. Deaths number more than 14,720. In response, the government declared a state of health emergency; closed schools, borders, mosques, and o …

Tolerance is a pre-condition for stability in a society with a variety of cultural and religious traditions. In Ghana, a secular and heterogeneous society, peaceful coexistence of different ethnicities and religions is strengthened by policies that fos …

Education is considered one of the sectors that underpin the development of a country. It contributes, among other things, to the formation of populations and to the social cohesion of a nation. Despite great progress over the last two decades, African …

Faced with economic difficulties due to a heavy external debt and the impact of recent security shocks, Burkina Faso must improve the mobilisation of its tax revenues. These are clearly lower than those of other countries in the West African Economic a …

Gabon, a democratic country since the early 1990s, is like many African countries whose democracy is sometimes limited to the simple holding of regular elections. Yet we know that the strength of liberal democracy lies in the fact that it gives the peo …

Ghana’s justice sector was adjudged Africa’s sixth-best in the 2019 Rule of Law Index, dropping from first position in 2018. The country is a signatory to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the Maputo Protocol, both of which oblige th …

Fighting corruption was one of the main campaign planks of Ghana’s current government. During his inauguration speech in 2017, President Nana Akufo-Addo cited the war on graft as his top priority, pledging to protect the public purse and rejecting the …

Climate change is “the defining development challenge of our time,” and Africa the continent most vulnerable to its consequences, according to the African Union and the United Nations. Farmers in Uganda waiting endlessly for rain, cyclone survivors in …