The Axis of Repression: The Criminalisation of Democracy in East Africa
Democracy is on the decline in East Africa. The regional governments are increasingly treating democratic participation not as a constitutional right but as a...
Can the Special Seats Bill deliver the gender parity Nigeria needs?
Hundreds of women rallied in Nigeria’s capital city, Abuja, on June 11, urging lawmakers to pass the Special Seats Bill (also known as the Reserved Seats...
Ugandan activists make the case for ecofeminism
Amid 1970s environmental threats of nuclear proliferation and pollution, the origin of the term “ecofeminism” is attributed to Françoise d’Eaubonne, a French feminist and ecologist who is said to...
“We are going to die”: The frontline costs of Uganda’s new US health agreement
On an early morning in February,...
Voters should be wary of promises made by Nigel Farage’s Reform UK
“We get elected, we do what we say,” vowed Gawain Towler, a Reform UK board member, after the party won more than 677 new...