Elections in Mali and Zimbabwe This Week
Yes, there were two significant national elections on the continent this past week -- in Mali and in Zimbabwe, though Zimbabwe continues to receive such fiendish Western media attention. You can catch up on all the information on the Mali elections here. And here is a succinct non-Western summary of the main issues in the Zimbabwean elections.
One thing common to both cases: these two are very divided countries-- Mali, with the ongoing rebellion that has literally split the country between zones controlled by the government and zones where the government has not been present in five years or more; and Zimbabwe, with the historic division between the ruling ZANU-PF which fielded the repressive government of Mugabe for so long and now fielded his close associate, Mnangagwa, and a very splintered opposition that presented 22 candidates in the presidential contest.
Here is a great analysis of the most important divisive issues in the Mali contest, which now must proceed to a run-off later this month, and you will find a discussion of how Zimbabwe's elections might have split the country again, after months of a lull and perhaps false sense of security. I think Cheryl Hendricks does a balanced analysis of the Zimbabwe polls in The Conversation.
All links are embedded today. .
In peace,
Jumoke
Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso, PhD
Department of Political Science and Public Administration,
Babcock University,
Ogun State, Nigeria.
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