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Peer pressure: in December, the elected presidents of Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Ghana visited Gambia’s President Jammeh and told him to step down after losing elections.

Governance

Setting the right example

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by Hans Dembowski

10.02.2017

Now we are friends: Kenyatta (left) and Ruto at a campaign event shortly before the presidential elections in 2013.

Governance

Kenya’s game of personality politics

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09.02.2017

An Indian right-wing Hindu group celebrates the inauguration of US President Donald Trump.

Activism

Populists threaten human rights

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Sabine Balk

08.02.2017

Regional Comparison

Revolutionary romanticism is misleading

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by Hans Dembowski

03.02.2017

Xi’s personality cult is reminiscent of Mao.

Authoritarianism

Populism in the Middle Kingdom

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by Nora Sausmikat

01.02.2017

Erdogan salutes supporters in late 2016.

Editorial

Worthless promises

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by Hans Dembowski

27.01.2017

Rally opposing re-burial of Ferdinand Marcos, the former dictator, on Manila’s National Heroes Cemetery in November.

Extrajudicial killings

National suicide

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by Alan C. Robles

Alan C. Robles

25.01.2017

President Nasser addressing a rally in Alexandria in 1957.

Egypt

An ancient land

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24.01.2017

Personality cult: the president’s face on a sweet.

North Africa

Defining the nation

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22.01.2017

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