[news] Africa: Dictatorships and Double-Standards

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By Stephen Zunes - July, 08 2008

...[N]either the Republican administration nor the Democratic-controlled Congress is sincerely concerned about human rights and democratic elections...Despite claims of support for the advancement of democracy, the United States continues to support...African dictatorships that are as bad as or even worse than...Zimbabwe...[T]he United States currently provides economic aid and security assistance to such repressive African regimes as Swaziland, Congo, Cameroun, Togo, Chad, Cote d'Ivoire, Rwanda, Gabon, Egypt, and Tunisia. None of these countries holds free elections, and all have severely suppressed their political opposition...Among the worst of these African tyrannies has been the regime of Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of **Equatorial Guinea**.  


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