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Following a national conference six years ago, the African nation of Benin held its first multi-party presidential elections. Tomorrow, voters go to the polls again in a show of democracy's strength there.

DANIEL ZWERDLING, Host: A few years ago, it looked like democracy was sweeping across the African continent. Kenya, Zambia, Mali, Niger, Togo and other countries all held multi-party elections for the first time ever, and it looked like the entrenched dictatorships were history. But now, it's clear that most of those supposedly democratic elections were, ...

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