ANALYSE : Africa politics: between life-long rulers and timid democratic movements

Victor KEUBOU 

In the biggest ever gathering of world leaders in 2000 in the its Headquarters, the United Nations launched the Millennium Development Goals, a political blueprint and momentum for addressing basic development-related issues. Barely a year later, at their Doha Ministerial Conference, the World Trade Organization trade ministers launched the Doha Development Round of multilateral trade negotiations. Concurring late Pope John Paul II, there has been a consensus on the fact that there can be no development without adequate democratic culture and practice. Yet Sub-Saharan Africa continues to display both mitigated and chaotic pictures.