Since the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991, there is a curious inconsistency in what authoritarian governments in the region do and fail to do. While state leaders have succeeded in building vast and ...

The bribery charges leveled against New York City Mayor Eric Adams might seem like just another corruption scandal to many, but the involvement of a consortium of Turkish businesspeople and the ...

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s recurrent cabinet reshuffles, culminating in this week’s sacking of Mines and Mining Development minister Winston Chitando, reflect a political landscape driven less by ...

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus signs the oath book as the country’s head of the interim government in Bangladesh at the Bangabhaban in Dhaka on August 8, 2024. Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters Bangladesh ...

Entrenched patronage networks, political meddling in appointments, and a lack of professional disaster-management leadership created a cascade of preventable failures in the catastrophic flooding that ...