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ISABEL BOSMAN - Africa: COVID-19 Is Deepening Africa s Democratic Regression
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How Covid-19 Undermines Democracy in Africa
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As the recorded number of infections in Africa edges towards the six million mark, it has become clear that Covid-19 is not only a public health challenge. Apart from the devastating economic impact of lockdowns and related regulations, the pandemic is undermining the well-being of democracy in Africa.
In prioritising public health, governments have drawn on emergency legislation to implement lockdown regulations. These measures
narrowthe gap between authoritarianism and democracy and can be used as a pretext for authoritarian regimes to hold on to power.
The pandemic struck at a critical time for some of Africa’s democracies and coincided with several elections scheduled for
Mali bishops decry country s second military coup in nine months
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Nine months after the 18 August 2020 coup that removed former president Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, history repeated itself in Mali, throwing the country back into political chaos.
On 24 May, a group of military officers arrested transition president Bah N’Daw and prime minister Moctar Ouane in Bamako. They both resigned the next day, after vice-president and leader of the August junta Assimi Goïta announced he had “placed them out of their prerogatives.” He accused them of violating the transition charter by excluding him from negotiations around a government reshuffle.
Goïta’s move itself oversteps the transition charter, which doesn’t grant the vice-president the power to dismiss the country’s civilian leaders. It reveals the absolute power of the August 2020 junta, which has run the country despite the façade of a civilian transition.