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Rather than learning from Chad’s history of coups and deadly conflicts, current leaders seem determined to repeat the cycle.
International and local experience shows that targeted leader killings tend to have more symbolic than practical impact.
Although authorities adhered to the ECOWAS timeline, Guinea’s return to democracy is mired in controversy.
The department can no longer be treated as peripheral – its new minister must have empathy and a deep knowledge of social welfare.
The law criminalising foreign political funding would only be justifiable if the country had a stronger democratic record.
High youth unemployment exposes young Kenyans, like thousands across Africa, to exploitation and false promises of lucrative jobs abroad.
Only a gradual consensus-based process can reconcile Somalia’s competing political systems and avert repeated election crises.
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