{"id":44105,"date":"2021-02-18T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/feb\/18\/international-community-despots-regimes-africa"},"modified":"2021-02-18T09:00:30","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T09:00:30","slug":"the-international-community-must-stop-legitimising-despots-regimes-in-africa-nelson-chamisa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/18\/the-international-community-must-stop-legitimising-despots-regimes-in-africa-nelson-chamisa\/","title":{"rendered":"The international community must stop legitimising despots&#8217; regimes in Africa | Nelson Chamisa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bright future of younger generations is being perpetually postponed by ageing authoritarian politicians<br><\/p><ul><li>Nelson Chamisa is leader of the MDC Alliance, Zimbabwe\u2019s largest opposition party<\/li><\/ul><p>Africa cannot afford to continue with the despotic forms of governance that still proliferate across the continent. Authoritarian and dictatorial governments are repressive, corrupt and inefficient. Their main interest is to retain power and loot public resources for the benefit of a few political elites, leaving the majority of citizens in poverty. As a result, although rich in raw resources, our continent remains the poorest in the world.<\/p><p>We have seen this trend of authoritarianism in Zimbabwe, and we are now seeing it in Uganda, which has just held a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/01\/uganda-opposition-leader-bobi-wine-calls-on-court-to-nullify-election-result\">farcical election<\/a>.<\/p><p>Nelson Chamisa is leader of the MDC Alliance, Zimbabwe\u2019s largest opposition party<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/feb\/18\/international-community-despots-regimes-africa\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/feb\/18\/international-community-despots-regimes-africa\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bright future of younger generations is being perpetually postponed by ageing authoritarian politiciansNelson Chamisa is leader of the MDC Alliance, Zimbabwe\u2019s largest opposition partyAfrica cannot afford to continue with the despotic forms of gove&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2323,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[708,6,520,1335,1310,2671,2566],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2323"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44106,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44105\/revisions\/44106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}