Clement Musangabatware, a lawmaker from Rwanda, is the new President of the East African Parliamentary Network against Corruption (EAPNAC), following his election to the position on October 14. He ...

A pivotal political leader who helped usher in multiparty democracy, he ran unsuccessfully for the presidency five times.

I moved to the United States in 2012 with great reluctance. I wasn’t sure why I should uproot myself to a country thousands ...

Odinga's activism helped steer Kenya away from single-party rule and into vibrant multiparty democracy, and made him one of ...

Clement Musangabatware, a lawmaker from Rwanda, is the new President of the East African Parliamentary Network against Corruption (EAPNAC), following his election to the position on October 14. He ...

President Paul Biya has sat as the country's head of state for more than four decades, and could keep his position beyond his ...

Cameroon voted in an election Sunday that could see Africa’s oldest leader – the world’s oldest president – extend his rule by another seven years.

Voters in Cameroon are heading to the polls in an election that could extend the rule of 93-year-old President Paul Biya.

Burundi's top court has sentenced a former president to life in prison for the 1993 murder of another president who had defeated him in elections, an attack that triggered a 10-year civil war in which ...

Impunity for rape, murder and other abuses is still widespread in Burundi despite a change of government, a U.N. report released on Thursday said.