Macky Sall Consolidates Power After Concerning Major Senegalese Election Win in Local Legislature
West Africa articles on Democracy Chronicles
West Africa is a core region of democratic progress in the world and also a region where many of the challenges to better and more widespread world democracy are evident. West Africa here will include fifteen countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo. Nigerian content on Democracy Chronicles is so extensive, it won't be automatically included here, just click the link above. Also check out our section on World Democracy.
Arab Spring to Mauritania!
Anti-Dictatorship Democracy Protests Grow as Regime Violence Amid Arab Spring to Mauritania
Guinea Protesters Call For Democratic Elections
Long Delayed Elections Lead to Trajic Violent Clashes as Guinea Protesters Paralyze Conakry
Guinea-Bissau Junta Proceeds to Dismantle Democracy
Guinea-Bissau Junta Coup Leaders Place Failed Candidate in Charge of Country That Rejected Him
Coup Leaders in Guinea-Bissau Begin to Form Government
Weak Democratic Traditions in Poor Nation Seriously Jeapordized as Coup Leaders in Guinea-Bissau Overthrows Civilian Government
Neighboring Countries Hit Mali With Sanctions Following Coup
West Africa Protest Violent Removal of Elected Leadership in Impoverished Mali With Sanctions
African Democracy Strengthened by Senegal Elections
Sall’s Defeat of Wade’s Sitting Government Presages New Democratic Era in West Africa and Sees African Democracy Strengthened by Senegal Elections
Wade Admits Defeat in Senegal Elections, Sall Victorious
Honorable Admission as Wade Admits Defeat in Senegal Signals New Era in West Africa
Mali Military Coup Condemned as Democracy Overthrown
Instability in Saharan Desert and Mali Military Coup is Causing Mass Displacement and Conflict
Opposition Unites in Senegal, President Under Pressure
President’s Third Term Bid Under Pressure as Opposition Unites in Senegal With Third Place Candidate Joining Second For Run-off