OmVärlden, 22 March 2016

ARI Senior Researcher, Nick Branson, questions the credibility of voting figures from the island of Pemba, an opposition stronghold where a sizeable majority boycotted the polls. Pemba accounts for 40% of Zanzibar’s electorate, and yet the electoral commission announced a 67.9% turn-out. The title of the piece translates as “Zanzibar’s elections – threats, violence and electoral fraud”