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Are African countries going backwards on democracy?

In the last three years, African countries have registered an overall decline in the quality of political participation and rule of law, analysts say.

“Today, there are almost the same number of defective democracies (15) as there are hard-line autocracies (16), among the continent’s 54 states,” Nic Cheeseman, Professor of Democracy at Birmingham University, concludes from his analysis of the last three years.

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