Students for Africa

DU’s Students for Africa Host Community Dinner After Elections

The recent com­mu­ni­ty din­ner orga­nized by the Stu­dents for Africa group at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Den­ver’s Kor­bel School of Inter­na­tion­al Stud­ies was spe­cial. It was spe­cial because the con­cept of unit­ing the com­mu­ni­ty for dia­logue occurs only occa­sion­al­ly in this town. As a par­tic­i­pant, I had not seen any­thing like this for quite some time,…

Senegal Constitutional Council Finds Election Delay Unlawful

DAKAR, SENEGAL — Sene­gal’s Con­sti­tu­tion­al Coun­cil on Thurs­day ruled that par­lia­men­t’s unprece­dent­ed post­pone­ment of the Feb­ru­ary 25 pres­i­den­tial vote was not in line with the con­sti­tu­tion, pitch­ing the coun­try into a new phase of elec­toral uncer­tain­ty.  Oppo­si­tion pres­i­den­tial can­di­dates and law­mak­ers last week filed sev­er­al legal chal­lenges to the bill that delayed the vote to December…

The Status of Nigeria’s February 25 Elections

Edi­tor’s Notes: Nige­ri­ans go to the polls on Sat­ur­day, Feb­ru­ary 25 to elect the coun­try’s next pres­i­dent. The top three con­tenders in the elec­tion are Peter Obi, rep­re­sent­ing the Labour Par­ty, for­mer vice-pres­i­­dent Atiku Abubakar who is rep­re­sent­ing the Peo­ple’s Demo­c­ra­t­ic Party(PDP), and Bola Tin­ubu, rep­re­sent­ing the All Pro­gres­sive Congress(APC) par­ty. Cur­rent Pres­i­dent, Muham­madu Buhari…