Guinea-Bissau Threatens Return To Bad Old Days In Africa -- The Guardian
The killing by rebel troops of President João Bernardo Vieira of Guinea-Bissau, hours after the killing of the army chief General Tagme Na Waie (Report, 3 March) is the latest tragic tale of political violence, confirmation that Africa is steadily going back to the bad old days of military coups. On 26 December 2008, hours after the death of President Conte of Guinea, Capt Moussa Dadis Camara, staged a coup and made himself president. Four month earlier on 6 August, in Mauritania, President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi was overthrown after he tried to dismiss the military's top commanders.
With the likes of Robert Mugabe refusing to step down after losing the 2008 elections; the unprecedented violence in Kenya following the rigged elections in 2007; and with the recent declaration by General Museveni of Uganda that voting for the opposition leader Dr Kizza Besigye in the 2011 elections would mean civil war; Africa seems doomed to more politically motivated violence.
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