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BBC’s World Have Your Say forum today–Do African Elections Need Foreign Monitors?

Posted on March 24, 2010 by Ken

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BBC: World Have Your Say–Do African Elections Need Foreign Monitors

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👉🏼Are free and fair elections passe in Kenya?
👉🏼Carter Center quietly publishes strikingly critical Final Report from Kenya 2013 Election Observation
👉🏼Corruption and Terrorism/Security
👉🏼Democracy and Competing Objectives: "We Need You to Back Us Up"
👉🏼Election Observation–Diplomacy or Assistance?
👉🏼It's mid-June: another month goes by without Kenya's election results while Hassan goes to Washington
👉🏼New Study on Democracy Assistance in Kenya
👉🏼Ocampo, the donors, and "The Presumption of Arrogance"; a story of babes in the woods of Mt. Kenya?
👉🏼Political Stability, Investor Confidence and Meaningful Elections in East Africa
👉🏼The Kenyan Constitution and The Rule of Law
👉🏼Vote Buying and Women Candidates in Kenya
👉🏼Was Kenya's "Election Observation Group" or ELOG intended to be truly independent of IEBC? Or was it to "build confidence"?
👉🏼Why would we trust the Kenyan IEBC vote tally when they engaged in fraudulent procurement practices for key technology?

FOIA Cables and the 2007 Kenyan election--a series

a. Lessons for Kenya's 2012 election from the truth trickling out about 2007–New cables from FOIA (Part One)
b. Lessons from the 2007 elections and the new FOIA cables–Part Two
c. Lessons from the 2007 Kenyan election and the new FOIA cables–Part Three
d. Lessons from the 2007 elections and the new FOIA cables–Part Four
e. Lessons from the 2007 elections and the new FOIA cables–Part Five
f. Part Six–What did the U.S. Ambassador report to Washington the day after the Kenyan election?
g. Part Seven–One last FOIA cable on the 2007 Exit Poll
h. Part Eight–New Kenya FOIA documents: Diplomacy vs. Assistance Revisted; or Why Observe Elections If We Don't Tell People What We See?
i. Part Nine–What Narrative Was the State Department's Africa Bureau Offering the Media While Kenyans Were Still Voting? And Why?
j. Part Ten–FOIA documents from Kenya's 2007 election–Ranneberger at the ECK: "Much can happen between the casting of of votes and final tabulation of ballots, and it did"
k. Freedom of Information Series (Part 11): Better to Learn More Lessons from Kenya's Last Election After the Next One?
l. Africa Bureau under Frazer coordinated "recharacterization" of 2007 Kenya Exit Poll showing Odinga win (New Documents–FOIA Series No. 12)
m. Why is IRI’s report on the Kenya 2007 Exit Poll missing from the USAID Development Experience Clearinghouse? (FOIA Series Part 13)
n. The simple truth of the allegedly "contested" Kenya 2007 exit poll–what IRI reported to USAID (FOIA series part 14, War for History series part 19)

Organizations

ACE Electoral Knowledge Network (UNDEF)-Kenya
Africa Research Institute
African Politics Conference Group
AFRICOG: Africa Centre for Open Governance
Centre for Multiparty Democracy-Kenya
East Africa Initiative–Open Society
ELOG–Election Observation Group
InformAction–Kenya 2017 election reporting
International Center for Transitional Justice–Kenya
International Commission of Jurists–Kenyan Section
Inuka Kenya Trust
Kenya Human Rights Commission
National Council of Churches of Kenya
Transparency Int'l-Kenya

Studies and Reports

"Ballots to Bullets"–Human Rights Watch
"Count Down to Deception: 30 Hours that Destroyed Kenya" – Kenyans for Peace with Truth and Justice
"Kenya: a country fragmented" – Africa Research Institute
"Turning Pebbles: Evading Accountability for Post-Election Violence in Kenya"–Human Rights Watch, Dec. '11
Commission of Inquiry into 2007 elections (Kriegler Commssion)
Commission of Inquiry into Post Election Violence (Waki Report)
USAID–Assessment of the Pre-electoral Environment: AN EVALUATION OF SUPPORT TO THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION, AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR . . . 2007 ELECTIONS

US Government

Africa Center for Security Studies
AFRICOM–US Military Command
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
State Dept. Africa Bureau
U.S. Senate Resolution on 2013 Kenya Election, etc. (bipartisan; unanimous consent)
United States Institute of Peace – Africa
USAID Blog

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