After Gen Z protests that led to ouster of civilian rule and installation of military junta, the youth are back to the usual drudgery
Madagascans largely celebrated the overthrow of the old regime, as they did when Rajoelina first came to power as a transitional leader in a 2009 military coup. But the young protesters, whose anger and sacrifices over Madagascar’s high unemployment, poverty and utility outages made the conditions ripe for a coup.
How youth-led uprisings are becoming central in protection of democratic resilience in Africa
Protests which began with frustrations with service delivery expanded to systemic demands for accountability and ultimately regime change. Where narrow political economic settlements exclude the electorate they are meant to serve, democratic risks and vulnerabilities are illuminated. When elite political cultures prioritise rent-seeking and exclude the broader populace, the outcome is heightened disgruntlement buttressed
Rage against corrupt political establishments drives world’s young to fill streets as ‘Gen Z’ protesters
In Morocco, a leaderless collective called Gen Z 212 – named after Morocco’s dialling code – has taken to the streets to demand better public services and increased spending on health and education. In Peru, protests over a pension law exploded into broader demands, including action to tackle rising insecurity and widespread corruption in the government.
Ivory Coast arrests 237 youths protesting authoritarian drift after removal of presidential terms limits
Ivory Coast, a nation of 32 million and the largest economy in Francophone West Africa, is due to hold a presidential election in two weeks. Earlier this year, four main opposition figures, including former President Laurent Gbagbo and former Credit Suisse Chief Executive Tidjane Thiam, were barred from running by the electoral commission.
Gen Z uprising: How radical youth revolt with roots in Kenya exposed years of systemic rot in Nepal
Rachana Khare, a 29-year-old English language teacher who joined the demonstrations in Kathmandu, said the protests may have been initiated by Gen Z but the vision of a corruption-free Nepal swept across the country.
Pressure on Kenya’s president to resign mounts as his kinsmen insist orders to shoot and ‘break the legs’ protesters were ‘legal’
The unrest began when the death of a blogger in police custody last month angered many Kenyans, and tensions heightened after the shooting of the civilian, Boniface Kariuki.
Re-imagining Kenya: Political unrest, justice on the streets that fuses fact and fiction to result in Daredevil’s flight from shadows
Kenya’s Gen Z, galvanised by social media hashtags and mobile communication, have driven two synchronised waves of resistance – from #OccupyParliament in June 2024 to renewed June 25, 2025 protests.
Muslims clerics want Interior Minister Murkomen assigned ‘lighter duties’ ahead of planned Saba Saba protests
CIPK National Chair Sheikh Abdalla Ateka said the remarks in which Murkomen was quoted as telling police officers to shoot anyone approaching a police station during demonstrations, were inappropriate and unbecoming of a senior government official.
Kenya’s Generation Z won’t fooled by President Ruto’s antics, the genie is not going back inside the bottle
Today, the intricacies of the budgeting cycle are regularly debated in the mainstream press and it has become fashionable for knowledgeable professionals to organise discussions on X to educate fellow Kenyans on matters of macro-finance.
