Congo
Sassou-Nguesso faces threat of record abstention

Denis Sassou-Nguesso, then running for a third term, voting in Brazzaville on 20 March 2016.
Denis Sassou-Nguesso, then running for a third term, voting in Brazzaville on 20 March 2016. © Marco Longari / AFP
The head of state, who has been in power for four decades and is running for another term in the 15 March election, has reorganised his campaign team. With no rivals at the polls and a population increasingly disinterested in politics, Denis Sassou-Nguesso and his strategists fear a high abstention rate. [...]
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