Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong strengthened Vietnam’s place on the world stage while increasingly consolidating control and limiting dissent.

Feeling stuck and unheeded, young Nigerians are increasingly resorting to all manner of desperate measures.

In the face of growing repression, Ugandans continue to find new and creative ways to combat the entrenched system of state capture.  

Sudan's June 30 demonstrations reflect citizens' desire for civilian control of the state, and the junta's discomfort with expressions of popular will.

As external actors seem to lessen pressure on West Africa’s juntas, Guineans register their discontent with military governance.

After an escalating round of protests in Bangladesh in recent months, longtime leader Sheikh Hasina, who had fought back many prior demonstrations, has resigned and left Bangladesh.