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Jan 8, 2025 | 
democracyinafrica.org | Henning Melber |Nic Cheeseman |Marisa Lourenço |John B. Nakuta
In early December 2024 the German and Namibian governments concluded negotiations over a joint declaration recognising the genocide committed by the German empire in South West Africa. Germany ruled the country as a colony between 1884 and 1915. It was declared a mandated territory by the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
democracyinafrica.org | Nic Cheeseman |John Taden |Daniel Banini |Kingsley Agormor
DiA’s Editor Nic Cheeseman has written for the BBC about why 2024 was a record breaking year for Africa. Cheeseman explains that the victory of the opposition in Ghana’s recent election “brings to an end a remarkable 12 months in African politics, which have seen five transfers of power – more than ever before.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
democracyinafrica.org | Dannie Verity |Nic Cheeseman |Tsoloane Mohlomi
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
journalofdemocracy.org | John J. Chin |Nic Cheeseman |Gabrielle Lynch |Justin Willis
The West African democracy is one of the continent’s most enduring, but it shouldn’t be taken for granted. It’s a bulwark for democracy beyond its borders. By John J. ChinDecember 2024On 7 December 2024, Ghanaians went to the polls for the country’s ninth general election since the return of multiparty politics in 1992.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
msn.com | Nic Cheeseman
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Nic Cheeseman
Namibia's governing party, Swapo, has retained its hold on power after more than 30 years, however its grip has been loosened - the latest African country where incumbents have had a difficult time this year. According to official results, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, the Swapo candidate, won the presidential election with 57% of the vote, becoming the country’s first female leader.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
internazionale.it | Nic Cheeseman
P er i partiti nati da vecchi movimenti di liberazione dell’Africa australe il 2024 è stato un anno terribile. Il 30 ottobre il Botswana democratic party (Bdp) ha subìto un’imbarazzante sconfitta elettorale e ha dovuto cedere per la prima volta il potere dai tempi dell’indipendenza. Questo terremoto politico arriva dopo uno storico voto in Sudafrica, dove l’African national congress per la prima volta dalla fine dell’apartheid è sceso sotto il 50 per cento.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
mg.co.za | Des Erasmus |Nic Cheeseman
The once-dominant liberation parties of southern Africa are having a terrible 2024 . Just last week, the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) suffered an embarrassing defeat at the polls, losing by a landslide. It is the first transfer of party power in the country’s post-independence history. That political earthquake followed a historic election in South Africa, where the African National Congress fell below 50% of the vote for the first time since the end of apartheid in 1994. It does not stop there.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
democracyinafrica.org | Nic Cheeseman |Kathleen Klaus |Dannie Verity |Tsoloane Mohlomi
As Mauritius prepares to go the polls on Sunday 10 November, it is important to shed light on three key issues that if not fully addressed can weaken the quality of the process and prevent the outcome from reflecting the will of the people: the Electoral Management Bodies, the fairness and credibility of elections and lastly the adjudication of electoral challenges.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
democracyinafrica.org | itarian Regimes |Salah Ben Hammou |Nic Cheeseman |Richard E. Mshomba
In September 2024, authorities in Benin detained the country’s former sports minister and a prominent businessman for allegedly plotting a coup against the West African nation’s president, Patrice Talon. Had a putsch materialized, Benin would have joined a growing list of African countries to have experienced a military coup over the past four years.
