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Africa’s 2024 Elections: Challenges and Opportunities to Regain Democratic Momentum - World
By Joseph Siegle and Candace Cook January 17, 2024 Africa’s multifaceted 2024 electoral docket provides opportunities to strengthen multipartyism, transition back to constitutionalism following coups, and rebuff perfunctory exercises. Africa has a busy election calendar in 2024, with 19 countries slated for presidential or general elections. The elections are a gamut of competitive multiparty elections to perfunctory electoral exercises.
Africa’s 2023 Elections – Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Sierra Leone Presidential and Legislative, June 24 President Julius Maada Bio is seeking a second 5-year term in 2023. Despite a legacy of competitive elections and peaceful transfers of power, Sierra Leone enters this election season under the strain of heightened economic and political tensions.
Africa’s Complex 2022 Elections – Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Spotlight By Joseph Siegle and Candace Cook January 11, 2022 Responding to the coups, conflicts, and other derailments of democratic processes in recent years, Africa’s 2022 elections are, in large part, an effort to right the democratic ship of state on the continent. Election results being tallied by lamplight in Kidal, Mali. (Photo: MINUSMA/Blagoje Grujic) There is little that is ordinary about the African elections slated for 2022.
Elections in Africa in 2021 – Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Spotlight By Joseph Siegle and Candace Cook January 12, 2021 A wide spectrum of credibility marks the 13 African elections slated for 2021. This has direct implications for the legitimacy of the leaders that emerge and their ability to navigate the security challenges they face. A woman voting in Sierra Leone in 2018. (Photo: USAID/Carol Sahley) Africa is slated to hold 13 national elections in 2021. Roughly half of these are in the Horn and the central Sahel.
Circumvention of Term Limits Weakens Governance in Africa – Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Infographic A growing pattern of evading term limits in Africa carries far-reaching consequences for the continent’s governance, security, and development. (Click here for printable PDF) (Click here for printable PDF) Highlights Africa has seen a reversal in term limit norms since 2015.
Biological Ion Exchange Provides DOC Removal in Small Communities
The Dzit'lain'li community, also known as Middle River, sits alongside the quiet riverbank upstream from Trembleur Lake in central British Columbia, Canada. The community, a part of the Tl'azt'en Nation, has a seasonal population that fluctuates from five to more than 40 people. Since 1998, researchers have attempted to identify a water treatment system appropriate for the community and robust enough to treat high organics, turbidity, and bacteriological loading.
Elections in Africa in 2020 – Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Spotlight By Joseph Siegle and Candace Cook January 28, 2020 African elections in 2020 will be a test against efforts to erode presidential term limits and other democratic checks and balances, with direct consequences for stability on the continent. A woman voting in the 2016 Ghana election.
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