What We Need to Learn for This Year's Polls

Luanda Mpungose of the South African Institute of International Affairs writes for Africa Portal on the lessons that can be learned from some recent elections for the forthcoming polls in  Zimbabwe, Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo, to be held later this year.

Nigerian polling officials oversee ballot boxes.

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