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Prevalence of conflicts over the legitimacy of election results in Africa : can the regional economic communities (RECs) provide a panacea? A case study of ECOWAS and SADC
Thesis (LLM (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa)) -- University of Pretoria, 2011.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/18627 Prevalence of conflicts over the legitimacy of election results in Africa : can the regional economic communities (RECs) provide a panacea? A case study of ECOWAS and SADC Kotey, Nii Ashie Mchomvu, Frank John UCTD Regional economic communities (RECs) Elections -- Corrupt practices -- Africa Contested elections -- Africa Thesis (LLM (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa)) -- University of Pretoria, 2011. Civil and political strive in Africa is in the main, this is due to an increase in disputes over who won elections. The disputed elections in Kenya, Zanzibar, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Ethiopia and more recently Ivory Coast to mention but a few, indicate how disputes over election results in Africa have been escalating. ‘Over the last couple of decades, many elections in Africa have been marred by ‘extreme controversy’. Elections ‘rigging and brigandage’, violence and elections invalidation are common phenomena in Africa. The report prepared by the British-Angola Forum (BAF) following a conference on the challenges for free and fair elections in Angola, reveals that many elections in Africa are ‘subject to human error and manipulation’ and this is mainly because those who are in power want to cling onto it especially ‘in countries where there is a perception that politics means money’. Adejumobi argues that in Africa most elections in their current form appear to be ‘a fading shadow of democracy’ jeopardising the frail democratic project itself. According to the African Union Panel of Wise (AUPW), while in some countries elections have built ‘democratic governance and prosperity of citizens’, in others they have led to disputed results and violence among the political actors. http://www.chr.up.ac.za/ nf2012 Centre for Human Rights LLM 2012-04-25T07:55:50Z 2012-04-25T07:55:50Z 11-Oct Mini Dissertation Mchomvu, FJ 11, Prevalence of conflicts over the legitimacy of election results in Africa : can the regional economic communities (RECs) provide a panacea? A case study of ECOWAS and SADC, LLM Mini Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/18627> http://hdl.handle.net/2263/18627 en University of Pretoria application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Regional economic communities (RECs) Elections -- Corrupt practices -- Africa Contested elections -- Africa Prevalence of conflicts over the legitimacy of election results in Africa : can the regional economic communities (RECs) provide a panacea? A case study of ECOWAS and SADC |
| title | Prevalence of conflicts over the legitimacy of election results in Africa : can the regional economic communities (RECs) provide a panacea? A case study of ECOWAS and SADC |
| title_full | Prevalence of conflicts over the legitimacy of election results in Africa : can the regional economic communities (RECs) provide a panacea? A case study of ECOWAS and SADC |
| title_fullStr | Prevalence of conflicts over the legitimacy of election results in Africa : can the regional economic communities (RECs) provide a panacea? A case study of ECOWAS and SADC |
| title_full_unstemmed | Prevalence of conflicts over the legitimacy of election results in Africa : can the regional economic communities (RECs) provide a panacea? A case study of ECOWAS and SADC |
| title_short | Prevalence of conflicts over the legitimacy of election results in Africa : can the regional economic communities (RECs) provide a panacea? A case study of ECOWAS and SADC |
| title_sort | prevalence of conflicts over the legitimacy of election results in africa can the regional economic communities recs provide a panacea a case study of ecowas and sadc |
| topic | UCTD Regional economic communities (RECs) Elections -- Corrupt practices -- Africa Contested elections -- Africa |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/18627 |