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Covid-19 helps ballot-dodgers in Africa

Foreign election monitors are staying at home

by NAIROBI
05 16, 2020
in Middle East and Africa

STRONGMEN TENDThe EconomistThe Economist Today to find election observers rather a nuisance. The sharper-eyed ones make trickery harder to get away with. Which is why autocrats see an upside to covid-19. These days, even the nosiest monitors are disinclined to travel.

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