Last week’s inauguration of President Bassirou Diomaye Faye of Senegal, despite months of hair-raising suspense has renewed hope that democracy has capacity to replenish itself.

South Africa will go to the polls on May 29 to choose a parliament, which will in turn pick a president, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced Tuesday. The vote may prove historic, with opinion polls showing Ramaphosa's ANC party on less than 50 percent in nationwide elections for the first time in South Africa's three decades…

A South African court has upheld a ban on the opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party leaders from attending President Cyril Ramaphosa’s speech this week to mark the opening of the new parliamentary session, after they were sanctioned for disrupting the event a year ago.