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Democracy In The Making, Or More Of The Same?

Democracy In The Making, Or More Of The Same?

Fifteen days after Cameroon’s presidential election concluded, the country’s Constitutional Council unsurprisingly declared that 85-year-old Paul Biya had been re-elected for a seventh seven-year term. Now wearing the crown of ‘Africa’s oldest dictator,’ the end result was really never in doubt. But despite winning with a miraculous 71% of the vote, President Biya’s external legitimacy […]

Peace Between Ethiopia and Eritrea Will Promote Democracy

Peace Between Ethiopia and Eritrea Will Promote Democracy

It seemed impossible just a few months ago: reconciliation between Ethiopia and Eritrea after decades of attrition. But peace is here at long last. How did this turnaround, which some are calling historic, come about? As of today (09/07) it’s official: the war is over between long-time enemies Eritrea and Ethiopia. A document to the […]

‘Democracy Meaningless When the People Are Hungry’

‘Democracy Meaningless When the People Are Hungry’

The political leader of the Movement for Economic Empowerment (MOVEE), Dr. J. Mills Jones has said that democracy as a form of government does not have meaning when those who are governed are hungry. As a result he said Liberians must not choose their leaders out of fear in October elections because they now have […]

Botswana – Africa’s Model Democracy?

Botswana – Africa’s Model Democracy?

Botswana is the official co-host at Germany’s ITB tourism trade fair in Berlin. Philipp Sandner reviews an African country that has found peace and prosperity which escaped others elsewhere on the continent. September 30 is a day of rejoicing for people in Botswana,” says author and political analyst Ndulamo Anthona Morima who lives and works […]

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