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Since Kenya’s presidential election in August 2022, the new government has been in conflict with the opposition.

Voters in the Central African Republic overwhelmingly approved a draft constitution paving the way for President Faustin Archange Touadera to seek a third term as president. However NGOs and civil society groups accuse the government of circumventing democracy.

Three docs at IDSFFK explore 2020-21 farmers' protest: Too Much Democracy, Chardi Kala & Dews of the Storm. They chronicle the struggle, its efficient organising & will power, media ecosystem, & inclement weather faced by protesters. Future textbooks for democratic protests.

Incumbent President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih and seven other candidates have registered to run in the Maldives’ presidential elections next month, the island archipelago’s fourth since becoming a multiparty democracy in 2008

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said that Jammu and Kashmir is the biggest example where democracy has been established at the ground level after 2019, following the abrogation of Article 370. Read further on Dynamite News:

"Preserving democracy requires unmasking and countering these deceptions"

Imagine that we’ve all – all of us, all of society – landed on some alien planet, and we have to form a government: clean slate. We don’t have any legacy systems from the U.S. or any other country. We don’t have any special or unique interests to perturb our…

The Congress leader Rahul Gandhi who was disqualified from the lower house in March 2023 has been reinstated as the Wayanad MP. Read further on Dynamite News:

Gandhi returns as member days after Supreme Court suspended his defamation conviction in Modi surname case.