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Centralised leadership: Burkina Faso’s leader, Ibrahim Traoré, has gained popularity for asserting sovereignty,
tackling security challenges and rejecting ineffective foreign influence. Photo: Stanislav Krasilnikov/RIA Novosti

The rise and erosion of liberal democracy

Various regions in southern Africa share a common trajectory: improvement in the first two decades after the 1990s, followed by decline

Decaying: The swimming pool area of the former five-star Ducor hotel in Monrovia, Liberia. In 2011, there were plans for a Libyan company to renovate it but civil war thwarted this attempt. Photo: Mark Fischer/Flickr

Liberia’s abandoned hotel stands as a symbol of a haunted past

When it opened its doors in 1960, the Ducor was one of a few five-star hotels in Africa, boasting a night club and air-conditioned rooms, according to travel guides

Rebels killed Muammar Gaddafi in his hometown of Sirte on 20 October 2011. (Photo by Eric VANDEVILLE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

Libyan town clings to memory of Gaddafi, 10 years on

Rebels killed Muammar Gaddafi in his hometown of Sirte on 20 October 2011, months into the Nato-backed rebellion that ended his four-decade rule

Guinea’s president Alpha Conde surrounded by soldiers.

Photos capture Africa’s mighty as they fall

Alpha Condé is not the first president to have his humiliation captured on camera.

Candles and photographs of the late South African photographer Anton Hammerl at his memorial service at His People Church at Parktown on July 2, 2011 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Hammerl was killed by pro-Gaddafi forces in April while covering the war in Libya. His remains have still not been found. (Photo by Sunday Times/Gallo Images/Getty Images)

Widow of Anton Hammerl, killed in Libya, asks UN to investigate his death

A decade after the photojournalist’s death his family wants his remains found and to know the circumstances in which he died

UN Libya rights probe stalled due to cashflow problems

The UN is currently going through a serious liquidity crisis because many countries have not paid their annual dues, and it is therefore unable to fulfil all its mandates

Blood stains are seen at a detention centre for mainly African migrants that was hit by an airstrike in the Tajoura suburb of the Libyan capital of Tripoli, Libya. (Reuters/Ismail Zitouny)
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Time is not on our side in Libya

Simmering tensions could see the country partitioned between east and west

Virus fever: The coronavirus has killed over 2000 people in China and the world has been put on high alert, with confirmed cases reported in over 20 other countries. (Anthony Kwan/Getty Images)

Life in the time of coronavirus

Self-diagnosis and symptoms are recipe for paranoia — just see the doc, take the meds and Bob’s your uncle

Qasem Soleimani

Soleimani air strike: Why this is a dangerous escalation of US assassination policy

The Trump administration is only the latest to push the boundaries of the law to take out foreign adversaries

Not fooled: Algerians take part in an anti-government demonstration in the capital after Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s key ally, Abdelkader Bensalah, replaced him as president. (Ryad Kramdi/ AFP)

It’s too early to celebrate

People power can break a dictatorship – but what comes next?

The clashes came despite calls by the United Nations and the United States for an urgent ceasefire.(AFP)

Libya clashes death toll rises to 32: UN-backed government

Clashes near Tripoli in Sunday have killed at least 32 people, with a further 50 people left wounded

Libya’s last election was in 2014.

Why Libya’s new elections might not put the country back on track

Libya’s proposed elections and any subsequent interim government will fail if the country’s challenges aren’t addressed

Carla and Nicholas Sarkozy

Sarkozy ‘arrested over campaign financing’

The former president is being questioned in connection to former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi and the source of his funding for his 2007 campaign

Actress Rosamund Pike

Djibouti’s greatest threat may come from within

Military superpowers, which now include China, rely on Djibouti’s increasingly fragile stability

Habré trial a victory for hearing crimes against humanity in Africa

The trial of the Chad dictator in Senegal shows that war and other similar crimes need not be heard in The Hague.

Isis stronghold in Libya spells dire consequences

If Islamic State consolidates its foothold in Libya, it will pose a major threat to North Africa and Europe.

President Jacob Zuma and Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi met in Tripoli in May 2011. Inexplicably

Jacob Zuma ‘was in Gaddafi’s pocket’

An informant told Hillary Clinton that Zuma secretly received money from Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi and that he feared for his position as president.

To fight terrorism, Africa must save Libya

African leaders reprimand the West, particularly France, for its intervention in Libya, which they say has left Africa rife with terrorism.

Mugabe at odds with new Libya

With Muammar Gaddafi out of the picture, President Robert Mugabe is severing commercial and diplomatic ties with Libya.

Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan says the saboteurs are ‘obviously’ people working at facility  (Gallo)

Libya holds stakes in South African hotels, including Michelangelo

And Treasury says it will work with Libyan authorities to locate more.