Question
The Praia Declaration promoted the stabilizing value of these events, for which a Ghanaian real estate developer known as “Cheddar” donned a mask in 2023. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name these events whose 2023 credibility was validated by monitors in Guinea-Bissau. They were deemed “free and fair” despite some irregularities in the Comoros (“COM-uh-roze”) in 2024.
ANSWER: elections [or word forms of electing; accept electoral campaigns or polls or equivalents of each; accept general elections or presidential elections or answers that specify other positions; accept election monitors or electoral commissions or election management bodies]
[10h] Macky Sall delayed Senegal’s elections after Karim Wade was disqualified for being one of these people, who were legalized in Burundi in 2000. Chad bars the presidency to these people, who are not recognized in Cameroon.
ANSWER: dual citizens [or dual nationals or people with multiple nationalities or equivalents; accept foreign citizens or French citizens or citizens of other specific countries; accept citizenship or naturalization or naturalized in place of “citizens”; prompt on citizenship or nationality]
[10m] Afrobarometer found increased trust in Liberian institutions after the 2017 election of this former footballer, whose 2023 concession marked the country’s second peaceful democratic transfer of power.
ANSWER: George Weah [or George Manneh Oppong Weah]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 22 | 17.27 | 96% | 68% | 9% |
Data
| Chicago A | Arizona State | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Waterloo | Berkeley A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Ottawa | Brown | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia B | Chicago D | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech | Cornell B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Johns Hopkins | Duke | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina A | Florida | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Chicago B | Harvard | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Illinois | Chicago C | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Indiana | Iowa State | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Berkeley B | Kentucky | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Truman State | Maryland | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Minnesota A | McGill | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Minnesota B | WUSTL A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| North Carolina B | Toronto B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Northwestern | Yale B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Stanford | Purdue | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| NYU | Rutgers | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Vanderbilt | Penn | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Toronto A | Virginia | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Texas | WUSTL B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Yale A | South Carolina | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |