Africa: AU Declares Tanzania’s Election Flawed and Undemocratic

Africa: AU Declares Tanzania’s Election Flawed and Undemocratic

Nairobi — The African Union (AU) Election Observation Mission has concluded that Tanzania’s October 2025 General Election failed to comply with AU principles, normative frameworks, and international standards for democratic elections, citing legal, institutional, and procedural shortcomings that undermined the integrity of the process. In a Preliminary Statement released on Wednesday, the AU Mission–led by…

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Africa: AU Declares Tanzania’s Election Flawed and Undemocratic

Africa: Obasanjo Decries Africa’s Leadership, Overdependence On Aid, Flawed Democracy

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has attributed Africa’s stagnation to a combination of poor leadership, endemic corruption, overdependence on foreign aid, and the continent’s adoption of a democratic model ill-suited to its realities. Speaking at the 32nd Annual Meeting of Afreximbank in Abuja on Thursday night, Obasanjo argued that Western liberal democracy, inherited from colonial powers,…

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