Discover how the Lehohla Ledger's analysis reveals a stark socio-economic divide in South Africa, illustrated by the 75-metre stretch of the M1 highway, and what it means for the future of communities ...

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The Bertelsmann Stiftung's Transformation Index (BTI) 2026 has delivered one of its strongest assessments yet of Liberia's democratic governance, painting a picture of a country that has preserved ...

Badak Yomgam] The political landscape of Arunachal Pradesh is defined by a persistent tension between centralized legislative authority and the local needs of its diverse populat ...

Seven years after the pro-democracy Hirak protests, Algeria is electing a new parliament. Could the vote spark new political ...

The Democracy Perception Index measures something that has become a strategic asset in its own right: how ordinary people ...

And democracies are tipped for success in 2026. The top 11 FIFA-ranked countries are all “free.” For the top 19 countries, all but two — Morocco and Ecuador — are free, and those two are ranked by ...

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The minority of Australians who say ‘in some circumstances, a non-democratic government can be preferable’ (17%) remained ...

Half a century after one of the most controversial chapters in India's post-independence history, the 1975–77 Emergency has ...

EIU grades 167 countries out of ten according to the state of their democracy, and sorts them into four camps: full and flawed democracies, and hybrid and authoritarian regimes. By that measure, ...