Encounter

NIGERIA ELECTION DELAY J. Peter Pham, director of The Atlantic Council’s Africa Center and Lauren Ploch Blanchard, Africa analyst at the Congressional Research Service, discuss with host Carol Castiel the many reasons--security, technical and political--behind the Nigerian government’s decision to postpone for six weeks the nation’s much-anticipated general elections as well as what’s at stake in the elections for Nigeria, the African continent and the United States.