BURKINA FASO: ETHNIC GERRYMANDERING AND GOVERNMENT MILITIAS SECURE ELECTION WIN
Fri, 04 December 2020
Through extensive gerrymandering to disenfranchise the ethnic Peul and opposition supporters, and by recreating an ethnic Mossi alliance alongside government-backed militias, the incumbent easily secured a second term in last month’s elections. Ethnic antagonism will intensify in coming years and increasingly drive the Islamist insurgency and failing counterinsurgency, and thus stall economic recovery.
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