The funeral of democracy advocate Floribert Chebeya this weekend attracted up to 4,000 mourners at a ceremony featuring dancing, traditional songs and tributes, followed by a special mass at Kinshasa cathedral.
The head of the Voix des sans Voix (VSV) …
One of the most democratic countries in the Horn of Africa is not really a country at all,” The New York Times notes. But international observers confirm that Somaliland still managed to pull off an impressive election at the …
As Rwandan authorities announced they have arrested two suspects in connection with the murder of dissident journalist Jean-Leonard Rugambage, human rights activists welcomed the opening of an important new resource center funded by the National Endowment for Democracy.
President …
The emergence of Iran’s Green movement and the regime’s violent crackdown reflect historic conflicts within Shiite theology and politics that could yet lead to the emergence of “a more moderate, democratic vision of Shiism”, writes Mohamad Bazzi, an adjunct …
Oliver Stone’s new film, “South of the Border,” critics suggest, “bends facts and omits information” that conflict with his benign portrayal of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and his radical acolytes.
This paean for populism “ignore[s] the serious damage that Chávez has done …
Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysia’s opposition leader, is ”one of the foremost advocates of liberal democracy in Muslim countries,” Jackson Diehl writes. So why, he asks, is he indulging in unsavory and illiberal rhetoric?
Anwar’s “transition from pro-American democrat to …
Why has Moscow refused to intervene in the current humanitarian crisis in Kyrgyzstan? Its inaction reflects the state of Russian public opinion, writes Stephen Sestanovich, a board member of the National Endowment for Democracy:
The humanitarian-intervention urge …
Zimbabwe is set to defy an international accord to curb the trade in “blood diamonds” after a meeting of the Kimberley Process working group ended in a stalemate.
The meeting heard concern expressed over the fate of Farai Maguwu, …
Democracy remains on the US-Russian agenda, President Barack Obama said today. But it is best advanced through the dual track approach entailed in the reset of relations between the two states.
His new National Security Strategy affirmed the …
A mistaken equation of democracy promotion with Iraq-style military intervention has led to a timidity and false realism about the prospects for supporting reformers like Iran’s Green movement, according to The New Republic’s Leon Wieseltier.
He takes exception to …
