Democracy is one of the key nroms contemporary society is striving to achieve, not only as a mark of good governance but also as precusor to development. Indeed countries that are said to be democratic, for instance, in the Western world and a handful of African countries, generally boast of good governance and steady development. It is this truisim that this report emphasises. Notably, the report shows that holding regular free and fair elections is a crucial path to this norm, which unfortunately, is far from being realised in the Eastern African Region. Read the full back page here