Thursday, July 1st, 2010
Burundi Presidential Elections: Where’s the Dialogue?
On Tuesday I came back to the capital from having observed the elections in Gitega, the second biggest city in the center of the country. We're busy writing up a report on our observations, which I will share later, so for the moment I will withhold comments about whether irregularities were observed, but I have [...]
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Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
Was there an election?
Since my last post, there's been a fair amount of news surrounding the communal elections. When the preliminary results were announced, a group of eight, and then 13 opposition political parties dismissed the election as a fraud, called for new elections, and for a new independent electoral commission. The basis of their complaint was a [...]
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Friday, April 24th, 2009
Steps Toward Democracy
Now that I’ve been here a while, perhaps some readers are beginning to wonder what I have to show for my time here. Well, for starters, I wrote a successful proposal for $9,000 to do a goat sharing project to encourage cross-ethnic reconciliation (based on our previous work with such projects, such as I described [...]
