In 2024, 18 elections took place on the African continent, from Senegal to South Africa, Algeria to Ghana, with the results an equal mix of democratic success stories and challenges still to overcome.
That made 2024 a year in which the state of democracy is both a glass half full and half empty. From Asia to Africa to the Americas, it produced examples of democracy working and citizens standing ...
In November, the world’s most powerful democracy elected as its next president a man who schemed to overturn its last presidential election. A month later, South Koreans swarmed their ...