A week after conceding defeat to Adama Barrow in the 2016 presidential election, Yahya Jammeh, Gambia’s outgoing President, retracted his support of the results. On December 12, 2016, The Gambian Bar Association (GBA), a membership group of legal practitioners based in The Gambia, issued a statement condemning President Jammeh’s rejection of the election results…
The National Democratic Institute (NDI) have released the new election toolkit for election observers, “Votes Without Violence: A Citizen Observer’s Guide to Addressing Violence Against Women in Elections.” The toolkit seeks to arm election observers with a gender inclusive framework for assessing elections, and give actionable strategies that promote a safer space for women to…
On August 30, 2016, Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN), a prodemocracy coalition of 31 non-governmental organizations, facilitated a public seminar in Harare, Zimbabwe. Members of the network presented their observations of Zambia’s recent elections which described a government clamp down on independent media coverage and polling stations that experienced late openings, missing materials, and delayed…
Terence Chimhavi of Zimbabwe has published a new entry to his blog “my views on the world.“ His reflections cover the state of democracy and human rights in Zimbabwe, with a specific focus on elections and the failings of the current regime’s political party, Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF), the ruling party in Zimbabwe since independence in…