Posts Tagged ‘elections’
A comparative guidebook to grenades in Great Lakes capital cities
It almost seems like you can’t hold elections without a few grenade explosions in this part of the world. Grenade explosions made international news in late winter and early spring in Rwanda. They injured more people than they killed, and based on my exposure to grenades, which is action movies, the numbers of both seemed [...]
Whither democracy in Burundi?
I’m personally bummed about the election debacle in Burundi. As I was flying from Cameroon to Nairobi, the opposition parties pulled out of the upcoming presidential election, dashing my dreams of an article that went something like, “The little country you’ve never heard of may be Africa’s best case study in democracy.” Everyone was excited [...]
This week in African elections…
There aren’t any. To be fair, only one of the three I’m thinking about is even supposed to have happened. But the other two are getting dicey. Let’s start with Rwanda, because it’s all over the news. I’m not there at the moment, but that never stops the New York Times from writing vague stories [...]
Vexed by the King of Liberia
Glenna Gordon has a fantastic story about trying to take the photo of George Weah, massive soccer star and one-time presidential candidate, whose narrow loss to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf surprised some folks. Weah was in town for the recent senate elections, lending some celebrity to his political party. Here’s an excerpt: “Geogre Weah is the [...]
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