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Autocracies in transition: In 2025, Cameroon and Tanzania rulers clung to power — but look more vulnerable than ever

  • Written by Yonatan Morse, Associate Professor, University of Connecticut
Autocracies in transition: In 2025, Cameroon and Tanzania rulers clung to power — but look more vulnerable than everProtesters run as Cameroonian security forces use water cannons to disperse them during the country's latest election, whose integrity was widely challenged.AP Photo/Welba Yamo Pascal

Autocratic leaders in Africa like their numbers to be in the high 90s, it appears.

In October, Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan won a highly dubious 98% of the...

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