Electoral board head Birutkan Mideksa said her commission was behind schedule on finalizing voter registration, training electoral staff, and printing and distributing ballot papers
Africa’s quagmire: Making choices in choice-less elections
By Arnold Tsunga and Tatenda Mazarura• 1 March 2021
Former Prime Minister of Somalia Hassan Ali Khaire (C) joins members of opposition parties as they protest against the political impasse, in the streets of Mogadishu, Somalia, 19 February 2021. Somalia is in the midst of a political impasse between the central government and federal states seeking an agreement over elections and the president s mandate which expired 08 February 2021. Somalia s presidential elections were meant to have taken place before President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo s four-year term expired. (Photo: EPA-EFE/SAID YUSUF WARSAME)
Elections remain the only viable way in which people in Africa can peacefully and democratically choose, change and hold to account their political leaders. If only it were that simple… over recent years the quality of elections has been slowly and systematically degraded to a point where the question being asked is w