Ghana\u2019s former president Nana Akufo-Addo will head the ECOWAS mission to oversee Benin\u2019s presidential election, the Economic Community of West African States has confirmed.<\/p>\n
The April 12 vote will choose the successor to incumbent Patrice Talon. He\u2019s constitutionally barred from running after serving two terms in office.<\/p>\n
His decision not to challenge the law has been hailed as a sign of democratic stability in a region recently rocked by military coups and constitutional amendments to maintain power.<\/p>\n
ECOWAS says its Electoral Observation Mission will be a \u201ccatalyst for promoting democracy, good governance, and regional stability.\u201d<\/p>\n
Observers are charged with monitoring the technical running of the polls, the neutrality of state institutions, and the election\u2019s overall environment to ensure it meets international standards.<\/p>\n
Talon\u2019s handpicked successor Romuald Wadagni is a strong favorite to win after the country\u2019s main opposition candidate was barred from running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ghana\u2019s former president Nana Akufo-Addo will head the ECOWAS mission to oversee Benin\u2019s presidential election, the Economic Community of West African States has confirmed. The April 12 vote will choose the successor to incumbent Patrice Talon. He\u2019s constitutionally barred from running after serving two terms in office. His decision not to challenge the law has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":9,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","source_name":"Africa News","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,2362,33,27],"tags":[512,1665,158],"class_list":["post-20326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-featured","category-politics","category-west-africa","tag-benin","tag-economic-community-of-african-states-ecowas","tag-ghana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20327,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20326\/revisions\/20327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}