Burundi’s rigged election

AS PEOPLE ELSEWHERECNDD-FDD hunkered down at home to avoid covid-19, millions in Burundi crowded into polling stations on May 20th to vote in the general election. Among the many voters were scores of dead people, activists allege. Human-rights watchdogs said that members of the ruling party, , boosted its tallies by adding the ballots of people locked up in jail—and of those who had died.“When I saw the same person voting for the third time I complained,” says one voter. He was sent packing by officials and told to “stop creating problems”.