New research demonstrates a link between health care access and bribery on the African continent, with some people who say they’ve been forced to offer bribes in the past more than four times more likely to have problems getting care than those who say they’ve never had to pay a…
More than a third of all Africans consider migration in search of opportunity, especially as the continent’s young and educated populations continue to grow, according to new data from the Afrobarometer research organization based in Ghana. “Potential emigrants are overwhelmingly motivated by a hunger for jobs and economic opportunity,” said…
From flooding to drought, countries across the African continent experience climate change in environmentally and economically diverse settings – but what do its citizens really think about it? The Ghana-based Afrobarometer research organization checked in with five different countries for their 2018 reports, from West Africa to the south, and…
Gabon’s 2016 election returned President Ali Bongo to office for a seven-year term while also bringing violence to the streets of Libreville. It left questions over the legitimacy of Bongo’s defeat of opposition candidate Jean Ping, and bitter divisions that his efforts at national dialogue ahead of postponed parliamentary elections…
With little more than a week to go before Zimbabwe holds the first elections without Robert Mugabe in a generation, the current President Emmerson Mnangagwa of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) holds a slight edge in polls conducted by the Ghana-based Afrobarometer organization. Forty percent of registered voters…
Citizens of Lesotho say they welcome the role the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has in supporting the country’s reforms and want their security forces to step back from political involvement, but they appear disillusioned about democratic elections after years of upheaval. The findings come from polling research done by…
Most Africans want to pay their taxes, according to a new paper from the Ghana-based Afrobarometer research network, but good governance is the key to seeing those citizen dollars go into the public coffers for much-needed revenue. Overall, 63 percent of respondents said taxes are necessary for development, while 72…
Voters in Uganda support an existing age limit for presidential candidates by a wide margin, according to poll results released by Afrobarometer over the weekend. The survey teams interviewed 1,200 Ugandans in late December and early January, the Ghana-based organization said. They found that 75 percent of voters favored keeping…
African nations look east to China as a model for their own countries’ economic and social life, with respondents in three of five African regions saying that China either matches or exceeds the approval that Africans have for the United States. That’s according to a new report from Afrobarometer, the…
The annual palm festival at Dzodze, in the rural Ketu North district of Ghana, has known better times. The oil palm industry on which the region depends is described as anemic – which might well describe the Ghanaian economy as a whole, even with a modest boost from its recent…