We close the year 2024 with the fall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, a murderer and torturer of his own people, whose family has been in power for nearly 60 years.

We also close the year with the democratic defeat of Ghana’s ruling party in free and fair elections because the incumbents failed to address people’s grievances over the cost of living. ..

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