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Election in Nigeria Was Fair Enough, Monitors Say Africa: Mood is upbeat after vote that began transition to democracy. Polling will continue early next year.

Los Angeles Times  BUJA, Nigeria - International and domestic monitors on Tuesday praised the conduct of Nigeria's local elections last weekend but warned that some problems will have to be…

décembre, 1998

Clinton's Visit to Africa: Hope for the Future

President Clinton's Africa trip is the first by a sitting US president, in which he has visited the prison that held Nelson Mandela for 18 years and talked of the European slave trade on the African…

mars, 1998

Cameroon Election, President's Victory Called a `Mockery of Democracy'

According to the government and political party of President Paul Biya, Cameroon's voters overwhelmingly turned out this month to applaud his 15 years in power and elect him to seven more. According…

octobre, 1997

African Coups Upset March of Democracy

Some Say Setbacks May Be Temporary, Cite Rise of Civil Societies Amid UpheavalsThe past month's street fights for power in three African capitals underscore that this continent's saluted post-Cold…

juin, 1997

Africa analyst sees growing gap between continent's rulers and its ruled

Christopher Fomunyoh is regional director for West Africa at the National Democratic Institute. He discussed the fighting and electoral problems in the Congo with reporter Toni Marshall.Question: Is…

juin, 1997

Despite Setbacks, Democracy Gains in Africa

In 1990 President Francois Mitterrand of France spoke enthusiastically of a "wind blowing from Europe that has begun to sweep Africa." The speech was widely credited with speeding up moves toward…

janvier, 1997

African Anomaly: An Election Up for Grabs

Wherever President Nicephore D. Soglo has gone the last few days, whether pressing the flesh in roadside campaign stops or dancing briefly during a festival in the coastal city of Ouidah, he has been…

mars, 1996