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- Vol 51 No 10
- 14/05/2010
Books not bribes
The World Bank is looking for new printers following its decision to bar publishers Macmillan from all Bank contracts for six years. This follows the admission by a Macmillan subsidiary known as Macmillan Education that it had unsuccessfully tried to win ...
- Vol 51 No 9
- 30/04/2010
Stolen votes yield a hollow victory for Khartoum
Vote-fixing in an election lacking any credibility has galvanised opposition in the North and may undermine the ruling party
- Vol 51 No 9
- 30/04/2010
A good vote in Africa
Free, fair and good-humoured. They were organised and monitored entirely by Sudanese and their results were widely accepted as free and fair. Those were Sudan’s landmark elections of 1986, which brought in a civilian government in the wake of a popular...
- Vol 51 No 9
- 30/04/2010
The deals, the votes and the fraud
There was plenty of rigging and fixing of votes across the country but sometimes the best laid plans went awry.
- Vol 51 No 8
- 16/04/2010
An election victory that widens the North-South gap
Western governments accept the regime’s rigged victory in exchange for what they hope will be a Southern referendum
- Vol 51 No 8
- 16/04/2010
Election-rigging guide book
Interested governments may turn a deaf ear but the opposition is making sure no one, at home or abroad, can credibly claim the 2010 elections were free and fair. On 12 April, the doughty Paris-based Sudan Tribune listed the first day’s irregularities.
- Vol 51 No 8
- 16/04/2010
A moral dilemma
There was no election boycott in Darfur by the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, Ibrahim Agboola Gambari told Jimmy Carter on 10 April. The United States’ ex-President then told South African ex-President Thabo Mbeki, head of the African Union (A...
- Vol 51 No 7
- 02/04/2010
As elections arrive, the opposition shuns Omer
Sudan is set to become the first country to elect an indicted war criminal as president. Yet the elections are deemed so unlikely to be free and fair that, as AC went to press, the focus was on the extent and effects of the opposition boycott. Oppositioni...
- Vol 51 No 7
- 02/04/2010
The most complex elections
The combination of one of the most elaborate and time-consuming electoral systems and mass illiteracy across most of the country virtually guarantees chaos in Sudan's elections on 11-13 April. Compounding such logistical problems is the political one o...
- Vol 51 No 7
- 02/04/2010
The many ways to win the elections
Independent analysts identify Khartoum's efforts to rig the polls and logistical difficulties (which the regime can exploit).
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