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Sunday, July 28 marks a long anticipated, highly contended and extremely complex event: the Western African nation – Mali will hold the first round of elections 16 months after the military Coup which overthrew democratically elected President Amadou Toumani Toure (ATT) in March 2012. The awaited elections are marked with […]

Last year, I attended an event on Climate Change. Sadly, even though I promised to do so immediately after the event, I’m only just getting to write about it. So, mea culpa… but I did write about the entire weekend, and call it ‘Green Deal Weekend’. So why am I writing now? […]

  The death of Ghana’s President John Evans Atta Mills some weeks back presented a different test of how much Ghana’s democracy has matured. This West African nation ushered in democracy in 1992 and has since successfully held elections every four years. The way elections are conducted and the political […]

Now here is part of the story on Uganda’s journey to conserve the environment and fight climate change. On the eve of this year’s World Environment Day; I listened to Uganda’s Minister for Water and Environment – Maria Mutagamba with sadness.  The minister lamented that her hands are sometimes tied […]

As we learn from Ulrike Reinhard’s article and the different local views on Future Challenges, achieving sustainable development is one of the most challenging objectives facing 21st century democracies. In this post we will take a case from Morocco that is a clear illustration of how transparency in governance is absolutely essential for achieving […]