Feb
03
2008
Imagine for a moment a presidential candidate under criminal investigation for fraud and stock manipulation. This same candidate among other things would have admitted to tax evasion for falsely claiming his children were employees and for using false addresses to enroll them in better schools. Understand that the public would be fully aware of these allegations and rival candidates would be capitalizing on these ethical shortcomings in their own campaigns. Believe it or not, this candidate is real. His name is Lee Myung-bak and he has just been elected South Korea’s president.
Image details: Lee Myung-Bak Sworn In As New South Korean President served by picapp.com
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Jan
06
2008
Amandla Ooko-Ombaka ‘10, another Yale student election monitor and a Kenyan herself, sends The Globalist this update from Nairobi:
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Jan
04
2008
Image details: Rioting Continues In Kenyan Election Violence served by picapp.com
My sister and I, along with seven other Yalies, served as student monitors for the Kenyan elections on December 27. Mostly for the catharsis of it, we wrote a short piece about our frustrations with international coverage of the post-election violence. Warning: since I’m a blog-noob, I haven’t figured out how to manipulate those essential elements of formatting like paragraph indentations. Apologies!
What We Saw in Nairobi: Student Election Monitors On the Ground for the Kenyan Elections
As the tragic violence unfolds following Kenya’s presidential and parliamentary elections, the prevalent images in the media are of mobs wielding machetes and burning cars. The emphasis on this post-election violence is inevitable, but it overshadows the integrity of millions of Kenyan voters on election day.
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