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Of five African elections held in October and November 2004 -in Ghana, Niger, Botswana, Namibia, and Mozambique- none attracted major international attention. All returned incumbent parties to office, and none was entirely free of questionable aspects of process or broader questions concerning concentration of political power. But they were also a sign of the routinization of elections as a component of political stability in a large number of African countries. A commentary on the election in Ghana from the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD), published in Pambazuka News for December 16, 2004, is also available on the CDD website (http://www.cdd.org.uk), along with reports on other West African elections. For reports on elections in Southern Africa, see http://www.eisa.org.za. More detailed reports on the election in Mozambique are available at http://www.mozambique.mz/awepa/issues.htm. |
