By: RFI The wealth of the world’s billionaires went up 16.2 percent in 2025, the anti-poverty group said in its report released to coincide with the opening of the Davos forum, which brings together some of the world’s wealthiest people together with political leaders, CEOs, financiers, and international institutions. Oxfam says the increase has been driven in

By Achille Mbembe The continent’s struggle is not about broken institutions but a failed model of ‘auto-colonisation’ where elites treat citizens as subjects. To explain the current dynamics unfolding across the continent as a “crisis of democracy” is a category error. Quite simply, substantive democracy does not exist in Africa. With the exceptions of South