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  • 08 May 2019
  • 5 min

Explainer 164: What happened to democracy in Benin?

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  • The Foreign Desk
  • 5 min

The tiny west African country has been, in recent memory at least, a bastion of democracy. But just before this month’s elections, a new law effectively stopped all political parties but two – both favoured by the president – from running. Was this a bureaucratic fumble gone too far or…

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  • Andrew Mueller

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