Cote d'Ivoire: Dialogue Is No Easy Answer for Côte D'ivoire
Analysis - On 9 November, the Constitutional Council of Côte d'Ivoire confirmed the first-round re-election of President Alassane Ouattara for a third term. Ouattara won 94.27% of the vote in the 31 October polls.
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Source: allAfrica.com
Uganda: Cabinet Rejects Dead Year, Opts to Buy 10m Radio Sets
Other ministers, however, rejected Mr Kutesa's suggestion and asked Mr Matia Kasaija of Finance to look for funds in the 2020/21 budget for buying radios and TV sets for the 15 million
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Uganda: The 'Big' Men Giving Museveni Sleepless Nights Ahead of the January Elections
[East African] Uganda goes to the polls in January and while 10 candidates seek to unseat President Yoweri Museveni -- from a position he has held for the past 34 years -- analysts view the election as a three-horse race.
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Uganda: Teargas As Amuriat Heads to Soroti for Campaign Launch
[Monitor] By Simon Peter Emwamu
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Malawi new presidential vote on June 23: parliament
Malawi's parliament has endorsed June 23 as the date for the presidential election re-run after a court annulled last year's vote over irregularities, a lawmaker
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Nandlall criticizes Alexis over report saying PPP appeal likely to fail
Attorney Anil Nandlall today rapped Grenadian Queen’s Counsel, Dr Francis Alexis for remarks attributed to him in today’s Guyana Chronicle that a PPP appeal to the Caribbean Court of Justice over a Guyana Court of Appeal ruling has no “real prospect of
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Uganda: Lukwago Loses Bid to Stop EC Campaign Ban
[Monitor] The Electoral Commission (EC) was justified to suspend election campaign meetings in 12 districts, court has ruled.
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Uganda: The Electoral Reforms That Were Never Implemented
The proposed electoral law known as 1+3 required a parliamentary candidate to be elected in four different
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Political hip hop
Political hip hop is a subgenre of hip hop music that was developed in the 1980s as a way of turning rap music into a call for action and a form of social activism. Inspired by 1970s political preachers such as The Last Poets and musician Gil Scott-Heron, Public Enemy was the first predominately
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Burundi: Human Rights Council Forty Fifth Session Interactive Dialogue On Burundi
Document - Oral briefing Of the Commission of Inquiry on Burundi*
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Uganda: Voters Fail to Follow Covid-19 Prevention Guidelines
[Monitor] Most voters who turned out to vote on Thursday in several parts of Kampala City failed to heed the advice by officials of the Ministry of Health follow Covid-19 Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
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Ms Mottley’s intervention was judicious and welcome
Every government, organization or person who has publicly condemned the flagrant, vulgar and incessant attempts by the rigging cabal and their acolytes to perpetrate fraud at the 2nd March 2020 elections held in Guyana and to attempt to defeat the will of the electorate and steal the new
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Ruling party candidate is projected winner of Niger presidential vote | Africanews
Provisional results Friday showed Mohamed Bazoum as having garnered 1.4 million votes, only trailed by former president Mahamane Ousmane with 675,000
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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa
Uganda: Parliament Tasks Govt to Waive Water, Power Bills for 6 Months
Parliament on Tuesday passed a resolution tasking government to waive water and electricity bills for a period of six months to help relieve the many Ugandans in the post-lockdown recovery
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IEC ready to resume by-elections during lockdown Level 1 | News24
The IEC says that it stands ready to resume running by-elections under Level 1 lockdown, with strict Covid-19 protocols in place.
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BET Awards: Political Statements on the BET Awards Red Carpet
Which stars made big statements on the red carpet?
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Guyana's gov't blasts Bruce Golding's statement on election process | New York Carib News
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) – The Guyana government has described as “exceptionally partisan” statements made by the former Jamaica prime minister, Bruce Golding, who led an Organisation of American States (OAS) observer team to the March 2 regional and general
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Burundi: Can Newly-Elected President Ndayishimiye Deliver Change?
Amid a global pandemic, it has gone by largely unnoticed - not least because the crisis also kept out election observers from the East African Community (EAC), the only foreign group the government
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Source: allAfrica.com
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IEC all geared up for ‘Super Wednesday’ by-elections
The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) said total of 609 133 South Africans have been registered to vote in the by-elections on “Super Wednesday”
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Thabo Mbeki: It is time for Côte d’Ivoire to cross the Rubicon
The possible return of former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo to the Côte d’Ivoire after his acquittal on charges of crimes against humanity might well be the catalyst for negotiations in that country, argues Thabo
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Dr Alexis must withdraw his remarks about this case before the CCJ
Yesterday’s Sunday Edition of the Guyana Chronicle’s, lead headline loudly screams, `Dr. Francis Alexis, QC says PPP/C appeal to the CCJ has no real prospect of
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Michael Jordan Pledges To Donate $100 Million To Racial Justice Efforts
Basketball legend Michael Jordan committed to donating $100 million over 10 years to organizations advancing racial justice amid protests nationwide over systemic
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Malawi votes in closely-watched historic presidential re-run
Malawian voters defied the coronavirus pandemic on Tuesday to return to the polls for the second time in just over a year after President Peter Mutharika's re-election was annulled in a dramatic court
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Source: https://www.news24.com
DRC top cleric says Tshisekedi - Kabila must politically divorce
The Catholic church in the Democratic Republic of Congo has waded into the political crisis that has gripped the country calling for a divorce between the two coalitions running the affairs of the
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Mozambique: Commonwealth Says Elections Not Credible, Peaceful or Transparent
The observers recognise that an electoral system governed by a whole series of constantly changing pieces of legislation "responds to the outcome of political dialogue between the main parties, Renamo and Frelimo, rather than taking a holistic review of the electoral
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Source: allAfrica.com
Chakwera wins Malawi vote
Malawi's opposition leader Lazarus Chakwera won last week's presidential election re-run with 58.57 per cent of the vote, the electoral commission said
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Source: The East African
Uganda’s Bobi Wine rejects official results
Ugandan opposition candidate Bobi Wine has rejected the results declared so far and calls himself the president-elect, despite the electoral body saying not all votes have yet been counted. Bobi Wine alleges Thursday's polls saw the worst vote-rigging in Uganda's history, but did not provide any
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Uganda: World Vison Launches Plan to Support 5 Million Children in Home Learning
As the country continues to fight tirelessly to control the spread of Covid-19, a total of 5 million children are set to benefit from the three phase program of World Vision aimed at mitigating the after-effects of the pandemic in the vulnerable
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Source: allAfrica.com
#JaVotes2020 | JPP reacts to being excluded from JLP, PNP campaign talks
The Jamaica Progressive Party (JPP), one of the four political parties given the go-ahead to contest the general election, is taking issue with being excluded from planned talks between the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the opposition...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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