What do Donald Trump (USA), Hama Amadou (Niger), Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Brazil) and Ousmane Sonko and Bassirou Diomaye Faye (Senegal) have in common?
For each of them the question has arisen — or could arise in the near future — as to whether they could be elected president of the republic while incarcerated.
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