Liberia's President George Weah addresses a press conference with the Ivorian President following a meeting at the Presidential Palace in Abidjan on April 4, 2018. PHOTO | AFP
Looking ahead, it will be many years before free and fair elections deliver one-term presidents in East Africa. Part of it has to do with the peculiar ways in which we count votes. When the dispatch of a president in a universal suffrage vote comes to East Africa, it will likely be from a democratic Somalia that is warmly ensconced in the East African Community.
