Anurag Srivastava, a 1999-batch Indian Foreign Service (IFS) diplomat, is currently serving as a joint secretary helming the ...

Prithvirajsing Roopun, President of Mauritius, has appointed Rama Krishna Sithanen as the central bank governor. Following an election victory by the Alliance du Changement, Sithanen will focus on ...

Credible votes in Botswana, Senegal, South Africa and Mauritius have shone this year. But political repression and violence keeps many discredited regimes in power.

Mauritius’ opposition coalition – the Alliance of Change – won the country’s 10 November 2024 election by a landslide, taking ...

The first African election this year, in Comoros on Jan. 14, descended into deadly violence and a curfew after President ...

In this edition of Wilson Center NOW, we discuss the state of democratic governance in Africa and what US and African leaders can learn from recent trends on the continent with Charles Ukeje and Rawia ...

Any future arrivals to the Chagos Islands, of which Diego Garcia is the largest and most well-known as it houses a crucial UK ...

South Africa closed its side of the Lebombo border that it shares with Mozambique in the wake of the recent protests. South Africa uses the Maputo harbour in Mozambique for some of its exports and the ...

Veteran Mauritian politician Navin Ramgoolam was sworn in as prime minister for his fourth term on Wednesday, a decade after ...

While many nations, like the United States, have built formidable military forces to safeguard their sovereignty, over 20 ...

The prime minister of Mauritius has accepted that his coalition, L'Alliance Lepep, has suffered a "huge defeat" following ...