Francophone Africa in Flux

After a long and bloody civil conflict, Burundi has established a new democratic regime. Does its tenuous but hopeful example hold lessons that might help its troubled neighbors?

For more than two decades, President Yoweri Museveni has been building an authoritarian regime that answers closely to his personal will.

Stymied in his effort to secure a third term, President Joseph Kabila manipulated the electoral process in order to secure a compliant successor.