Africa: It's Going to Be One Heckuva Roller-Coaster Ride Until the U.S. Polls in November

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American presidential elections have sometimes been much more fraught with complications and intrigue than the anodyne version of some history books. The 2020 edition already looks like it may become a distillation of all the versions of chaos possibly drawn from the past, along with a couple of 'wag the dog' moments thrown in for good measure.

One certain thing about elections is that eventually, they must come to an end. Mercifully, there will be an end to it, people are starting to say of this current presidential election in the US. (That is, of course, unless it comes to the moment where the presumed loser starts mewling about it having been rigged, a fraud, a hoax, fixed and a travesty -- or, in the usual more spartan prose of international electoral monitoring parlance, neither free nor fair.)

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