{"id":219058,"date":"2026-01-03T22:32:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/africa-elections-coups-and-crackdowns-africas-mixed-democratic-record-in-2025\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T22:32:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:32:35","slug":"africa-elections-coups-and-crackdowns-africas-mixed-democratic-record-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/africa-elections-coups-and-crackdowns-africas-mixed-democratic-record-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Elections, Coups and Crackdowns &#8211; Africa&#8217;s Mixed Democratic Record in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\"><em> Across Africa, contested ballots, violent crackdowns, coups d&#8217;\u00e9tat and military transitions morphing into long-term rule combined to make 2025 a year in which, as one analyst tells RFI, &#8220;the law of the strongest has become commonplace&#8221;. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">With no fewer than 10 presidential elections held across the African continent, the political stakes were high in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">In several countries, elections reinforced entrenched leaderships rather than opening the door to political renewal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" \/a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601030109.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Guinea\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/guinea\/\">Guinea<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Across Africa, contested ballots, violent crackdowns, coups d&#8217;\u00e9tat and military transitions morphing into long-term rule combined to make 2025 a year in which, as one analyst tells RFI, &#8220;the law of the strongest has become commonplace&#8221;. With no fewer than 10 presidential elections held across the African continent, the political stakes were high in 2025. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":219059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1118],"tags":[258,256,6287,39865,21594,6404,821,1124,8467,257,5267,254],"class_list":["post-219058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africas","tag-coups","tag-crackdowns","tag-democratic","tag-elections","tag-guinea-news","tag-mixed","tag-news","tag-record","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}