The Electoral Commission of Zambia delivered elections that saw Hakainde Hichilema become the new president in 2021 despite democratic backsliding under the ruling Patriotic Front.
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Stakeholders, whether they be policymakers, political parties, civil society or the media, must proactively pursue electoral integrity.
A man casts his vote during South Africa’s 2019 national election.
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The Independent Electoral Commission cannot afford to put a foot wrong in the country’s most important election since democracy in 1994, on 29 May.
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The former Administrative Appeals Tribunal was stacked with political appointments. The government must ensure the same does not happen with its replacement.
Mau Mau suspects are rounded up by police outside a camp in Manyani, Kenya in 1955.
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Thousands of Kenyans were held in detention camps, and the British imperialist government tried to cover up brutal violations that occurred there.
King Charles III and Camilla, Queen Consort, in April 2023.
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The visit will acknowledge the more painful aspects of the UK and Kenya’s colonial history.
Protesters in Kisumu confront police officers after Kenya’s disputed 2017 elections.
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Kenya’s inability to move past ethnic ideology has made it difficult to develop alternative bases for political organisation.
Kenya’s first president Jomo Kenyatta waves at a crowd.
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Jomo Kenyatta and his successor Daniel arap Moi set the tone for ethnic and authoritarian politics which Kenya has wrestled to free itself from in recent decades.
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Calls to secede have been heard from time to time in Kenya – most often around elections.
The late Peter Enahoro.
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Peter Enahoro, Nigerian journalist, columnist and author, died on 24 April 2023.
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Officially, sovereignty has been put to bed with three straight independence referendum defeats. But France is continuing to devolve powers to its territory in an ambitious power-sharing experiment.
South African president Cyril Ramaphosa, left, hosts his Tanzanian counterpart during a state visit in March 2023.
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Ties between the two nations date back to Tanzania’s solidarity with the anti-apartheid struggle.
Kenyans protest against police extrajudicial killings in Nairobi in December 2022.
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Alternatives to violent policing already exist in the daily practices of Nairobi residents who don’t depend on the police for safety.
Marriage has traditionally been touted as the goal to which everyone should strive, but remaining single is increasingly common.
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Valentine’s Day can be isolating for people who aren’t in romantic relationships. But research shows there are benefits to remaining single.
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Any new wealth will create new social, economic and political tensions.
The sluice gates open at the Owen Falls dam across the White Nile in Uganda on 14 October 1962.
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The mega dam in Jinja was meant to give Uganda energy independence, but this was constrained by Britain’s agricultural interests in Egypt.
The Uber model hinders any possibility of drivers acting collectively and generates significant cognitive dissonance among them.
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When it comes to dealing with Uber’s difficult working conditions, Uber drivers are on their own.
1922 and all that: Ireland had a reality check after gaining independence.
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After 1922, the people that had supported independence often weren’t the ones who benefited from it.
Diego Garcia is the site of a joint military facility of the United Kingdom and the United States.
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By raising the Mauritian flag on the Chagos Islands, the east African nation has reasserted – if only symbolically – its claim to sovereignty.
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Pro-independence parties had sought a delay for the third and final referendum due to the impact of the pandemic on the Indigenous Kanak population. It was denied.
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If a negotiated agreement is ever found, it is most likely to fall within the realm of free association rather than outright independence or integration in Morocco.