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- In between homes – the in-between existence of refugees in transit in Eastleigh, Nairobi, by Lena Johansson (master student at Uppsala University)
- Congosa politics: Rumours and elections in Sierra Leone, by Diana Szanto
- Elective Affinities: Fragility and Injustice in the Field, by Luisa Enria
- Can you imagine? Reflections on the SL elections and implications for penal policy and practice, by Andrew Jefferson and Luisa Schneider
- Sierra Leone General Elections 2018 – A personal diary, by Diana Szanto
- Urban kinship: the micro-politics of proximity and relatedness in African cities, by Jesper Bjarnesen and Mats Utas
- Fragile Security or Fatale Liaisons? Reflections on 2 March 2018 Attacks in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, by Sten Hagberg
- Jostling for power: Sierra Leone’s election runoff, by Luisa Enria and Jamie Hitchen
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Fragile Security or Fatale Liaisons? Reflections on 2 March 2018 Attacks in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, by Sten Hagberg
On Friday 2 March 2018 around 10 o’clock, two coordinated of terrorist attacks took place in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso. The first attack involved gunmen seeking to enter the Embassy of France, exchanging fire with soldiers from Burkinabe … Continue reading
Generation Terrorists: The Politics of Youth and the Gangs of Freetown, by Kieran Mitton
Youth at Risk – Youth as Risk On the evening of the 15th February, six leading presidential candidates for the Sierra Leone presidential elections took to the stage. Over three hours of a live broadcasted debate, each answered questions about … Continue reading
Posted in Big Men, democratisation, Election violence, Elections, Social protest, Youth
Tagged Sierra Leone
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The New Gambia, by Niklas Hultin
It finally became clear on January 21, 2017, that Yahya Jammeh, the long-serving autocratic president of The Gambia would step down and leave the country. The road to this point was a twisty one. Jammeh had lost the December 1, … Continue reading
Posted in Conflict, democratisation, Election violence, Elections, Governance, Perspectives on Power, Popular Uprisings, Social protest
Tagged Gambia
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The protest march in Guinea and the tragedy of the stray bullet, by Joschka Philipps (Conakry, August 18, 2016)
Thierno Hamidou Diallo, may he rest in peace, was fatally shot on August 16th, 2016. He is the tragic victim of the anti-government demonstration in the Guinean capital Conakry, which he had nothing to do with. The 21-year old man … Continue reading
Posted in democratisation, Governance, politics, Popular Uprisings, Social protest, State violence, Urban issues, Violence
Tagged Guinea
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One year after the elections: a deceptive calm in Burundi? by Mimmi Söderberg Kovacs
The car stops and the driver turns off the ignition and leans back in the seat. Before us winds a long queue of cars and minivans in the afternoon sun. People have gone out of their cars and sit in … Continue reading
Elections in Uganda 2016: Rumours and the Terror of the Unknown, by Henni Alava and Cecilie Lanken Verma
Two parallel realities appear to exist in pre-election Uganda, especially when seen from the northern region of Acholiland ten years after it was declared ‘post-conflict’. In one, everything is ‘fine’: the elections will be smooth. There will be no problems … Continue reading
A Burkina Faso where “nothing should be as before”: presidential and legislative elections in perspective By Sten Hagberg
On Sunday 29 November, Burkina Faso organized successful presidential and legislative elections. They marked the end of a one-year-political transition and a step in consolidating the country’s democratic achievements over the last year. There are now opportunities for a veritable … Continue reading
Posted in Election violence, Elections, Popular Uprisings, Social protest, State violence
Tagged Burkina Faso
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Bujumbura Burning, Part II: Misrepresentations of the Burundian Crisis and their Consequences, by Jesper Bjarnesen
Since April, Burundi’s capital of Bujumbura has been the scene of violent confrontations between security forces and civilian protesters who deplore president Pierre Nkurunziza’s candidacy in July‘s presidential elections. Both his candidacy and his overwhelming electoral victory have been denounced … Continue reading
Posted in democratisation, Election violence, Governance, politics, Popular Uprisings, Social protest, State violence, Violence
Tagged Burundi
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South Africans and our emotions (Guest post by Claudia Forster-Towne)
Over the weekend I read a blog entry titled “The trouble with South Africa”. The author was mystified as to why the social networking world wasn’t more outraged at the shooting of 34 protesting miners in Marikana.
Mats Utas 