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Zambia: an uneven contest leads to an easy win

Crackdown on opposition and last-minute closure of the courts help secure president’s re-election

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SOUTH AFRICA: ‘Classifying gender-based violence as a national disaster was never the finish line, it was the starting point’

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ZAMBIA: ‘A high turnout would show people still believe they have the power to shape their country’s future’

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BOTSWANA: ‘For trans people, true equality requires moving beyond decriminalisation’

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SOUTH AFRICA: ‘Xenophobia has become a get-out-of-jail-free card for elites who have failed’

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BOTSWANA: ‘Court rulings matter, but it’s sustained civic action that turns them into real protection’

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ESWATINI: ‘US deportees remain locked up in a maximum-security prison without due process’

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Botswana: criminalisation of same-sex relations off the books

A decade of legal struggle ends as penal code is revised, with marriage equality now in sight

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ZIMBABWE: ‘The government is changing the rules to keep itself in power’

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‘Constitutional changes in an election period tend to be driven by political expediency rather than the public interest’

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