Bloomberg Jacob Zuma’s forced resignation as South Africa’s president did more than revive confidence in the ruling African National Congress. It’s deepened divisions between the two main opposition parties, threatening their control of the nation’s key cities. Together with the ANC’s shift to support expropriation of land without compensation, Zuma’s replacement by Cyril Ramaphosa has thawed its relations with the ...

Bloomberg Sierra Leone will hold elections on Wednesday in which an unprecedented number of political parties will compete as discontent over the government’s handling of an economy battered by the Ebola outbreak has soared. The vote marks a departure from a decades-old tradition that mainly divided the balance of power between the All People’s Congress and the opposition Sierra Leone ...

During the 2016 presidential primaries, I found myself in a San Francisco park talking to guy who was eager to convince people not to support the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a proposed trade agreement among the US and other mostly advanced economies. For all his sincerity —his backpack was adorned with anti-TPP and Bernie Sanders pins —his rationale was vague, driven ...