Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has demonstrated the importance of leadership in the country’s resistance, while Russia’s Vladimir Putin personifies leaders’ abuse of power, notes Democracy Paradox’s Justin Kempf. So it’s necessary… Read more »
Nigeria’s main opposition parties are calling for fresh elections, describing results currently being announced by electoral body as “heavily doctored and manipulated,” in a joint press conference in the capital,… Read more »
Opposition parties today walked out of the venue where results from Nigeria’s tightly contested presidential elections are being announced, the BBC reports: The main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and… Read more »
Will Nigeria’s two-party system tremble? AFP asks (above). Africa’s most populous nation has known its share of bruising campaigns, but never since the 1999 return to democracy has there been… Read more »
The outcome of the election, scheduled for February 25th, will reverberate far beyond Nigeria’s borders, The Economist reports. A free and fair vote in the continent’s biggest democracy would send… Read more »
“This is a consequential election,” said @NEDemocracy‘s @DamonMacWilson. “What happens here matters; it first of all matters to #Nigeria but it can have a real impact on the development of… Read more »
At last week’s U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, Senegalese President Macky Sall, the African Union chairman, thanked President Biden for his commitment to Africa, AP reports. But he also criticized pending U.S…. Read more »
One of the most high-stakes elections that Nigeria has witnessed in decades takes place on 25 February 2023. If successful, it will be the first time during its 63 years… Read more »
Next February, Nigeria will hold its seventh election since transitioning to democracy in 1999. Nearly 100 million Nigerians are registered to vote, most of them under 25. By 2050, according… Read more »
Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff said terrorism could persist in the country for the next twenty years after Boko Haram claimed responsibility (HT: CFR) for killing dozens of farmers in… Read more »