What they have in common is deteriorating governance being exercised by from Khartoum.
On July 24, a date marking the second anniversary of the death in office of former president John Evans Atta Mills, several thousand trade unionists and other demonstrators marched through the streets of Accra to protest economic hardship and deteriorating governance.
While a guilty verdict would have provided the PR with powerful arguments about deteriorating governance, Mr Anwar being free to campaign is of much greater benefit to its chances of winning federal power.
A United States Agency for International Development paper, for example, classified fragile states as those which experience post-conflict, early recovery, arrested development, or deteriorating governance [ 3].
Mounting popular discontent in 2014 over the deteriorating economy, poor governance, and corruption damaged Ghana's image as the poster state for successful development.
"In January and February 2007, security forces violently repressed a nationwide strike called to protest corruption, bad governance and deteriorating economic conditions, resulting in the deaths of more than 130 protesters," the assessment said.
Joseph Kabila endeavoured to use the occasion of the anniversary to revamp the DRC's negative image, it was impossible to ignore the ongoing conflict in the eastern provinces and the country's prevailing lack of infrastructure, rampant corruption, poor governance, and deteriorating human rights.
Some 21 of the 54 states ranked, including five of the top 10, have deteriorated in overall governance performance since 2011, the annual index found.
According to the Ibrahim index, governance deteriorated in just under a quarter of the region's countries.The index will be updated yearly, providing a scorecard of national progress assessed against objective criteria, and a framework for African civil society to engage its leaders in a debate about how we are governed.
Treatment delays, understaffing, weak leadership, bullying, data irregularities, missed targets, deteriorating finances, unsafe care, A&E mismanagement and poor governance litter the charge sheets.
But, in between elections, the society suffers from dysfunctional governments, ineffective, corrupt, and predatory public institutions, poor governance, absence of law and order, and deteriorating infrastructure.
