President John Magufuli won a second term by a contested landslide and looks set to take even greater control of Tanzania's democratic space.
The country must urgently address the politics of ethnicity before it can move towards a workable democracy.
COVID-19 travel restrictions are adding to the growing pressure on observer missions to prove their worth.
Jerry John Rawlings remains the most polarizing political figure in Ghana since Kwame Nkrumah
The fact that there's a growing number of child vendors means government interventions for vulnerable children aren't reaching everyone in need.
