Suntou, this is what a good monitoring agency does. Set minimum standards for sending in observers. The Carter Center and the COmmonwealth could learn a lot from ECOWAS. By God we Africans are coming of age. May God/Allah/DaarManso bless us all. I am proud to be an African today.

Haruna. This is The Global Democracy Project's idea of conscientious arbiter of democracy. Not clueless pageantry and backdoor lobbying of criminal governments. I couldn't link to the fuller story but I'll try to follow it elsewhere. Thank you for sharing.

 

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Subject: [G_L] BBC Fofana says, ECOWAS to avoid the Gambian election...An interesting development


  
BREAKING NEWS: ECOWAS has just announced that it will not send any observers to the Gambia for tomorrow's presidential election. The commission says “preparations and political environment for the said election are adjudged by the Commission not to be conducive for the conduct of free, fair and transparent polls”. It cites “intimidation, an unacceptable level of control of the electronic media by ...the party in power, the lack of neutrality of state and parastatal institutions, and an opposition and electorate cowed by repression and intimidation”. It says the electoral climate does not meet the minimum standards set under the Protocol on Democracy and Good Governance for the conduct of elections.See More


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