A number of African countries will have elections in 2020. They include Cameroon, The Comoros, Burundi, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mali, Tanzania and Togo. Although many people often see the test of democracy narrowly through an electoral lens, quite a number of the upcoming elections bear watching.
Cameroon’s national assembly, senate and local elections, postponed for the third time from 2018 to October 2019 will now kick off, hopefully, between January and March 2020. The postponements came in the wake of displacements and deaths amid calls for secession in two anglophone regions and heightened Boko Haram attacks in the North. Last year, President Paul Biya, 85, controversially won a seventh, seven-year term.
