Continued from yesterday Having fought and lost elections in 2003, 2007 and 2011, former President Mohammad Buhari who fought the losses in court wherein he also lost had to issue a physical threat: “if what happened in 2011(alleged rigging) should happen again in 2015, by the grace of God, the dog and the baboon would all […]
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The various electoral laws in Africa have provisions that make the judiciary to have the final say on both Pre and Post Election conflicts. No one should be in doubt as to the competence or capacity of the Judiciary in the continent to adjudicate on election issues whether it concerns pre-election or post-election disagreements. The only snag […]
"It is far more likely that the US military would support proxy insurgents instead. This would lead to destabilization of the region and possibly a civil war," Derek Milne noted
Derek Milne notes that France has a thousand and a half troops stationed in the region, with its air base in Niger, while "Washington sees Niger as little more than a subordinate ally in the Sahel region"