Personal Rivalries Overshadow Botswana's Democracy Political developments in Botswana are attracting unprecedented attention, causing some pundits to fret about the stability of its...
U.S. Should Acknowledge Critical Challenges for Ethiopia's Transition Anyone fishing for a good news story out of Africa recently, and rightly, has celebrated Ethiopia, where dynamic young Prime Minister...
President Omar al-Bashir Is Out. What Is Next for Sudan? The people of Sudan have earned the world’s admiration and respect. Their bravery, persistence, unity, and discipline have achieved what...
I’ve Seen Civil War Destroy the Democrats Before. We Can’t Let it Happen Again. I've lived through a Democratic Civil War before. In fact, I’ve been in the middle of two of them. The first was in 1968, when I was the...
