REJECT ELECTORAL THEFT IN AFRICA

A FAMILIAR ritual played out across Africa last week, as another sham election was rubber-stamped by a leader who has long outstayed his welcome.

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Uganda's so-called general election on January 15 was not a democratic exercise but a brutal farce, conducted amid state-orchestrated violence, media blackouts, and flagrant irregularities. It is a disturbing symbol of a continental crisis: the systemic theft of the people's will by ageing autocrats who have traded liberation credentials for lifelong dictatorship.