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Yvonne Ndege is Al Jazeera’s West Africa correspondent based in Abuja, Nigeria. She spent 10 years at the BBC before joining Al Jazeera.

Yvonne was a co-recipient of a United Nations award for journalism in 2010.

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By Yvonne Ndege in Africa on December 6th, 2011
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As people across the Democratic Republic of Congo wait for the country's election commission to announce the final results from presidential elections, there is a real sense of fear in the capital, Kinshasa.

After 16 nights here, it is not difficult to understand people's anxiety. 

At least 18 have been killed in election-related violence and the situation has raised many questions.

Can this vast country deepen its democracy or democratise successfully given the conditions here, such as very poor infrastructure, tribalism, corruption, poor standards of education and insecurity?

Then, there is its history to consider.

When ordinary Congolese flocked to the polls on November 28, it was only the third democratic election to take place after some 51 years of independence from Belgium.

Chaos expected?

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By Yvonne Ndege in Africa on November 28th, 2009

It was 8am on Thursday, 26 of November, 2009 in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, when the call came in. The caller spoke French and said he was Chief Protocol Officer for His Excellency President Theodoro Obiang of Equatorial Guinea.

He said the President had agreed to my interview request and that my cameraman and I needed to be ready in 15 minutes as Presidential Protocol Officers were on the way to pick us up. I wanted to scream "NO" - I have a whole day of filming planned on an oil platform in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa for my report about Equatorial Guinea's oil wealth.

But I knew I was in no position to say no.

By Yvonne Ndege in Africa on October 3rd, 2009
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Our journey into Nigeria’s violence-prone, oil-rich Niger Delta region begins in the marbled corridors of the ministries of defence and information in the government capital Abuja.

Its pristine skyscrapers are a world apart from the hundreds of mangrove creeks and ravines dotted across six Nigerian oil-producing states. There, a low level on–off war has been waging for years between Nigerian security forces and thousands of men fighting for a greater share of the billions of dollars that oil exports earn Africa’s most populous nation.

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