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Politics
Shola Lawal

Ghana to Botswana: Why African voters are throwing out ruling parties

People walk past a polling station on the day of Ghana's presidential and parliamentary elections in Jamestown, Accra, on December 7, 2024 [Zohra Bensemra/Reuters]

Jubilant victory songs filled the air in Ghana’s capital, Accra, on Monday as supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) party filled the streets to celebrate their candidate, former President John Dramani Mahama’s win in an election that will once again make him head of state of the West African nation.

Decked in the party’s colours of red, white and black, supporters, young and old, blew on flutes, whistled and drummed thunderously on plastic buckets, as they hugged and danced in front of the NDC headquarters in Accra’s Adabraka neighbourhood.

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