The guilty verdict on Blaise Compaoré should be celebrated as a landmark victory for democracy and peoples’ movements in Africa.
Companies are moving their production back to developed countries. This is jeopardising the decades-long progress in global poverty reduction.
Emmanuel Macron’s success validates a strategy aimed at making him appear as the champion of the “progressives”, but it has only partially worked.
He will be remembered as the leader who plunged the country into unmitigated chaos
A quarter of South Africans in cities are living in informal settlements.