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This week, I was in Accra, Ghana for the third West Africa Citizen’s Summit organised by the civil society movement – turning the page (Tournons La Page) under the leadership of Professor David Dosseh. The Summit reviewed the decade of subversion of democracy by numerous incumbent presidents in West Africa who have been abusing the powers of incumbency to rig elections, to unilaterally and illegally change the constitution and extend their tenure and to suppress the people’s will. It is this…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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