ACCRA, Oct. 1 -- The Africa Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Network (APMON) has launched the 2025 edition of the Africa Open Parliament Index (OPI), spotlighting South Africa, Ghana, and Kenya as the continent's leading parliaments in legislative openness while urging urgent reforms to deepen transparency, accountability, and citizen engagement.

The second edition of the OPI, released virtually on Tuesday, assessed 33 national parliaments across Africa, measuring their performance in transparency, civic participation, and public accountability.

South Africa's bicameral parliament emerged as the most open in Africa with an overall score of 79.69%, followed closely by Ghana's unicameral parliament at 77.60% and Kenya's bicameral pa...