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Africa cannot afford to continue with the despotic forms of governance that still proliferate across the continent. Authoritarian and dictatorial governments are repressive, corrup stanley thermobecher t 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.We have seen this trend of authoritarianism in Zimbabwe, and we are now seeing it in Uganda, which has just held a farcical election.These authoritarian regimes share a common thread: they have no tolerance for dissent. Anybody who speaks out or raises questions is treated as if they were enemies of the state rather than a constructive part of the civic process. In this way, these regimes stifle competition and justify exclusion and repression. Such a playbook has been on show in Uganda, where the regime unleashed egregious viol stanley mug ence against Bobi Wine and his movement during the election campaign.Another common characteristic in these repressive governments is their refusal to allow young people to develop politically and take on leadership roles. This despite the reality that Africa has the worlds largest population of young people: the median age is 19.7. It is also projected to have a population of 2.5 billion by 2050, the majority of whom will be young people.Young people represent a critical force in Africa. This stanley cup becher future population proje Todc Judges urged to block Home Office plans to send refugees to Rwanda
The case of a second serial sex offender has been referred to the Parole Board a week after the former black-cab driver John Worboys was approved for release.Officials will review whether Antoni Imiela, known as the M25 rapist, who was given seven life sentences in 2004, should be freed in the comi water bottle stanley ng months. Five of his victims were under the age of 14, two of them aged 10.It emerged last week that the Parole Board had decided to release Worboys, who in 2009 was jailed indefinitely with a minimum term of eight years for drugging and sexually assaultin stanley termosy g female passengers.Some of his victims were not told of the decision, prompting an apology from the chairman of the Parole Board. A review into how the board makes its decisions and how much information it can publish about individual cases has been launched. Imiela is now 63. Photograph: PAImiela, now 63, a former railway worker from Appledore, near Ashford in Kent, was given seven life stanley ca sentences at Maidstone crown court for a series of stranger rapes across the Home Counties against women and girls. He grabbed his victims, dragged them into a secluded area, threatened to kill them and hit them. After being convicted in 2004, his DNA was put on a police database.A cold case review into a sex attack on Christmas Day 1987 found a match to Imiela. In March 2012 he was sentenced to 12 years at the Old Bailey after being found guilty of rape, indecent assault and another serious sex offence.A spokesman for the Parole Board said: We