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Togo president declares landslide election win, opponent slams ‘masquerade’
LOME (Reuters) – Togo President Faure Gnassingbe declared an electoral victory on Monday as official preliminary results showed him re-elected…
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The Fall of a Model African Democracy
After three decades of peace and progress, the West African nation now finds itself facing the “democratic recession,” a term…
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South African Elections: What You Need to Know
South Africa holds its sixth national election on May 8, coinciding with the country’s celebration of its silver jubilee as…
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'It's Hard to Remove a Seating African President'
Another election, another win, another loss, another dispute, another positive endorsement by the ‘international observer teams,’ and another litany of…
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International election observation is decades out of date. I should know.
By Stephen Chan I helped design the first African election observation mission in 1980. The world’s transformed since then, but…
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