PHILIP GOUREVITCH has an interesting piece in the New
Yorker:
“Burkina Faso, Congo,
and Burundi are among the world’s poorest, least developed, worst governed
countries. Compaoré, Kabila, and Nkurunziza are corrupt and unaccountable men,
more like Mafia godfathers than like public servants, and they hardly bother to
pretend otherwise. When they say that they must remain in office, they make no
case for what good they’ll do, no connection between their interest in power
and the public interest.”