BY JULIETTE GALLO Rising social and economic stresses have eroded public confidence in institutions of democratic governance around the world. In many countries, this has led to an increase in riots and protests. In some countries, this has galvanized populist or autocratic movements. In West and Central Africa, this has translated into a spate of […]
Yearly Archives: 2022
Breaking the Cycle: Military Coups in West Africa
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Coming Apart at the Seams: Fragility in a Time of COVID-19
- Friday, 08 July 2022 18:20
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BY NATE HAKEN The last two years have challenged many assumptions about what it means to be fragile and what it means to be resilient. Countries that were thought to be strong proved weak. Problems that were thought to be straightforward proved complex. It takes more than financial and human capital to manage and recover […]
Security Pressures, Violence, and Nigeria’s 2023 Elections
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BY NKASI WODU Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, is getting ready for its general elections next year, with two front liners from the two major parties emerging in a defining election. This election will be defining for Nigerians because the candidate sworn in on May 29, 2023, will be taking over the reins of a […]
Brazil: Distrust and Fragmentation
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BY NATALIE SILVEIRA A steady decline in social and political cohesion in Brazil over the last eight years, as measured by the FSI, has created a situation of increasing precarity. This sharp worsening coincided with a reduction in public confidence in institutions following the 2016 impeachment of former President Dilma Rousseff. As an indication of […]
Haiti: Two Steps Forward – Three Steps Back
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BY NATALIE SILVEIRA With President Jovenel Moïse’s inauguration in 2017, Haiti became the most improved country on the FSI 2018. With his assassination in 2021, it is now among the most worsened. Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere and has been ranked among the fifteen most fragile countries in the world in […]