Africa: COVID-19 Disruptions and use of Technology in Elections: Lessons for West Africa

A season of disruptions Read more »

West Africa: Covid-19 Disruptions and Use of Technology in Elections - Lessons for West Africa

A season of disruptions Read more »

Africa: Will health precautions affect the integrity of Elections in West Africa?

The health and safety measures advised by the WHO and adopted by countries around the world include regular cleaning of hands, maintaining distance between persons, avoidance of… Read more »

West Africa: Osiwa Reinforces Covid-19 Response Through Donation of Ambulances to State Governments

[Abuja, Nigeria] - The Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) has purchased and has donated an ambulance each to Plateau and Yobe State as part of its response to the… Read more »

West Africa: Covid-19 and Exceptional Political Situations in West Africa

The COVID-19 pandemic is the exception that proves the rule that ''tyranny begins where the laws[1] end''.  West Africa has experienced exceptional situations, often as a… Read more »

West Africa: Ensuring inclusive governance and stability in Mali

Recent developments in Mali have brought international attention back to the lingering challenges of instability and distrust since the signing of Algiers Peace Accord in 2015. On… Read more »

West Africa: OSIWA documents the West African experience during COVID-19

Dakar, Senegal – The Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) is launching a photography project on Instagram titled « Essential Stories » on June 1, 2020… Read more »

Africa: Covid19 Crisis: EU Needs to Change Its Approch to Africa

As the effects of coronavirus hit the African continent, the pandemic must mean an overhaul in EU-Africa relations and, as Marta Martinelli (Head of EU External Policy Team) and… Read more »

West Africa: Elections in the Time of Covid-19 - What Can West Africans Do to Prepare?

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) has taken the world by storm. Minute by minute, we're assaulted with content on the spread of the virus and its health challenges, how countries are or… Read more »

Africa: Elections in the time of COVID-19 – What can West Africans do to prepare?

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) has taken the world by storm. Minute by minute, we’re assaulted with content on the spread of the virus and its health challenges, how countries… Read more »

Africa: The Senate must reject the Anti-Social Media Bill, as it is unconstitutional and inconsistent with Nigeria's international obligations

Ladies and gentlemen of the Press, Read more »

Africa: Open Society Pledges Support for African Cultural Heritage Restitution

The Open Society Foundations today announced a $15 million initiative to strengthen efforts to restore cultural objects looted from the African continent. Over four years, the… Read more »

West Africa: The Backpack

Salome (not her real name) looks forlorn and detached from the rest of the kids. Salome is a 10-year-old pregnant child, a survivor of sexual crime in the heat of the insurgency in… Read more »

Liberia: Two LAS Officials In Senegal For Capacity Building Training

The Executive Director of the Liberia Albino Society (LAS), Patricia Logan and Clarence Success Clay are currently in Dakar, Senegal attending a three-day intensive capacity… Read more »

Nigeria: How poor persons spend months, years in prison unjustly

•Man languishes in jail for 6 months for stealing juice worth N600 Read more »

Nigeria: Presidency Moves To End Kaduna Crisis

 –  As the conflict between farmers and herdsmen linger in Kaduna, the office of the Vice President, Proffessor Yemi Osinbajo has made moves to bring to an end the… Read more »

Ghana: GAPA Takes Campaign Against Stigma On Albinism To Remote Communities

The campaign which is being sponsored by the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), sought to sensitize members of the communities, where customary banishing on persons… Read more »

Senegal: How are young Africans engaging electoral processes? Lessons from Nigeria and Senegal

The months of February and March were both interesting and slightly turbulent for West Africa, with presidential elections taking place in Nigeria and Senegal. Both countries hold… Read more »

West Africa: Extraordinary Women in West Africa

Out of the ordinary......comes the extraordinary. Read more »

West Africa: Women's Rights in West Africa, everybody's business - The campaign

Women make up more than 50% of West Africa's population and are more economically active than anywhere else in the world. Their families, communities, and countries are built off… Read more »

West Africa: Innovating livelihood options for the planned restoration of Ogoniland Summary

The Ogoniland area of the Niger Delta region has experienced widespread contamination from petroleum hydrocarbons originating from Nigeria's active oil sector. Read more »

Nigeria: Nigerian Democracy's Uncertain Future

Last month, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari, a 76-year-old former military general, won his second term in an election marred by low voter turnout, legal controversy,… Read more »

Nigeria: Roots of Nigeria's election violence

Elections are the battleground for resource control, which raises the stakes and likelihood of clashes. Read more »

Africa: West Africa's Democratic Tipping Point?

ABEOKUTA/MUNICH/FREETOWN/LILONGWE – The decision to postpone Nigeria's presidential election, made just hours before polls were due to open, has raised fears about the… Read more »

Nigeria: #nigeriadecides2019 - OSIWA Update

On the 16th of February, at about 2.30am the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced the postponement of Nigeria's General Elections to the 23rd of February for… Read more »