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title: "Is Eastern Africa Abandoning Democracy?"
description: "Across the region, incumbents are rewriting constitutions, jailing challengers, and staging elections that ratify power rather than contest it — with little pushback from abroad."
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  - name: Simon Whistler
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Across the region, incumbents are rewriting constitutions, jailing challengers, and staging elections that ratify power rather than contest it — with little pushback from abroad.

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Full analysis is behind the paywall. Read the gated piece at https://fronts.co/videos/is-eastern-africa-abandoning-democracy/.
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