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Mauritius: Finance Minister States That Npf Beneficiaries Will Still Receive Their Due
Government is taking the lead to reform the current pension system by abolishing the contribution to the National Pension Fund (NPF), while continuing to pay benefits to each and every one who has previously contributed to this
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Source: allAfrica.com
Constitutional reform: the budget process - Stabroek News
Not for the first time the various requests for information about the reasoning underlying many  decision in the 2020 budget suggest that if there is one aspect of government business that needs to be reformed it is the manner in which budgets are conceived, constructed, examined, passed and
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Kenya: Ministries Explain Sh8.1 Billion Suspect Allocations
The government has come out to explain suspect allocations of Sh8.1 billion in small amounts to infrastructure projects in the new budget that were flagged by the Parliamentary Budget Office
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Gas tax set to push households back to wood fuel
Gas tax set to push households back to wood fuel
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Kenya: Jubilee Party Purge in High Gear as Three Senators Are Quizzed
The NEC meeting — which will also endorse changes made in the party’s parliamentary leadership as well as House committees — is dependent on the availability of the party leader, President Uhuru
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EAC presidents skip Nkurunziza’s burial
No sitting East African Community head of state attended the burial ceremony for the late Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza held
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Nigeria: Stakeholders Advocate 'Newborn Screening' for Sickle Cell Disorder in Nigeria
In commemoration of the annual World Sickle Cell Day, the coalition of Sickle Cell Disorder (SCD) nongovernmental organisations have tasked the legislative arm of government to implement the 'Newborn Screening' procedure policy in order to tackle the burden of the disease in
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Ruto allies plan anti-Uhuru rallies
The Nation has learnt that the Jubilee MPs plan to frustrate government business in both the Senate and the National Assembly as a way of getting back at President Kenyatta for removing Majority Leader and Whip Kipchumba Murkomen and Susan Kihika from the leadership
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Shot, axed, tasked: Lissu to challenge for Tanzania presidency
Opposition MPs boycotted the swearing-in of the new MP stressing that the condition of Lissu was known to the National Assembly but speaker John Ndugai defended the decision at the time, saying the absentee Lissu had breached parliamentary
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Chief Election Officer is subordinate to GECOM
Lowenfield will be appropriately advised in due course that a singular reference to an officer in the Constitution does not make you a “Constitutional Officer” without the attendant provisions defining the office such as its genesis, its primary function, and protections distinct from the ordinary
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APNU+AFC must have new MPs to serve it in opposition - Stabroek News

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Thousands of people in DR Congo capital defy protest ban | Africanews
Thousands of protesters gather in the DR Congo capital Kinshasa, four days after five people were killed in banned demonstrations over the choice of a new election
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Nigeria: Why We Revised 2020 Budget - Buhari (Full Speech)
[Premium Times] President Muhammadu Buhari said the federal government revised the 2020 Appropriation Act to reallocate resources for effective implementation of required health and emergency measures, as well as to mitigate the negative socio-economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Venezuela’s Maduro orders EU envoy to leave following fresh sanctions - Stabroek News
CARACAS, (Reuters) Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro yesterday ordered the European Union envoy to leave the country, hours after the EU announced sanctions against several officials loyal to the socialist
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Gabon senate votes in favour of pro-gay law
Gabon will join a handful of African countries to legally allow
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Don't implement Data Protection Act as is, says PAJ
THE Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) is calling on the Government to pull back, even at this stage, and revise problematic provisions of the Data Protection Act.The association, in a statement last evening, said its assessment of potential dangers to journalism posed by the initial Bill led to
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A Brief History of the African Country of Lesotho
Basutoland was founded in the 1820s by Moshoeshoe I, uniting various Sotho groups who had fled predation by the Zulu. Having escaped the Zulu, Moshoeshoe brought his people to the stronghold of Butha-Buthe, and then the mountain of Thaba-Bosiu (about 20 miles from what is now the capital of
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Nigeria: Oil Marketers Refusing to Cut Prices of Diesel, Others - Minister
Despite the recent commencement of the deregulation of the downstream sector of the petroleum industry, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, said the Federal Government will continue to intervene in determining the retail pump price of
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Singing from the same hymn book – To what end?
From Joe Harmon’s extensive statement early in the week, to interviews by Lennox Craig and David Patterson at midweek, then by Amna Ally, Cathy Hughes and Aubrey Norton, all singing from the same hymn book – the elections were rigged by the
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Chief Election Officer directed to prepare report using recount results
Chief Election Officer to prepare report in keeping with Section 96 of the Representation of the Act, Chapter 1:03; paving the way for official declaration of Election Results
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Nigeria: 2020 Budget - Senate Pegs Oil Price Benchmark At $28 Per Barrel
The Senate on Tuesday put the benchmark price for crude oil in the 2020 budget at $28 per
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DA calls on Lindiwe Zulu to urgently address Parliament on R350 grant
The Democratic Alliance (DA) said Lindiwe Zulu has provided no clarity as to how many South Africans have received the R350 relief grant.
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MOSCOW, Russia (AP) — Polls opened in Russia yesterday for a week-long vote on constitutional changes that would allow President Vladimir Putin to stay in power until
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On May 29, 2015, Rajkeswur Purryag resigned to make room for Jugnauths new alliance candidate, Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, to be elected president. Both Jugnauth and Leader of the Opposition Paul Berenger welcomed her nomination. A biodiversity scientist, Ameenah Gurib-Fakim was unanimously approved by
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Motion to strengthen INDECOM tabled in House
A motion calling for legislative changes to the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) Act, to strengthen the investigative capabilities of the organisation, was tabled in the House of Representatives by Justice Minister Delroy Chuck this
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Kenyatta, Odinga Lay Ground for Changes in House Teams
Radical surgery on National Assembly and Senate committees is in the offing as President Uhuru Kenyatta and Orange Democratic Movement leader Raila Odinga lay the ground for smooth implementation of the Building Bridges Initiative
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Nigeria: Buhari Signs Order to Implement Financial Autonomy for States' Legislature, Judiciary
President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday in Abuja signed an Executive Order for the implementation of financial autonomy for the legislature and the judiciary at the state
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Parliament dissolved in St. Kitts, PM to name election date | New York Carib News
BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Prime Minister Dr. Timothy Harris says the Parliament in the twin-island Federation has been dissolved but he has kept nationals in the dark as to when he would announce the date for the next general election that must be held by August
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