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'It was surprising, it was heartbreaking because their trip here had urgency because people are dying,' a pro-democracy parliamentarian has said.
In May, Burundi held a presidential election which was won by Evariste Ndayishimiye, candidate of the ruling National Council for the Defense of Democracy - Forces for the Defense of Democracy (CNDD-FDD) party.
Ndayishimiye was hurriedly sworn in after the untimely death of president Pierre Nkurunziza in June.
Rights violations continue
The Council encouraged donor countries which had suspended aid to Burundi to continue dialogue towards resumption of development assistance.
A report by a UN watchdog in September said human rights violations were still being committed in Burundi, including sexual violence and murder.
The country was plunged into a crisis in April 2015 when Ndayishimiye’s predecessor Pierre Nkurunziza decided to run for a controversial third term, which he ultimately won in July 2015.
His candidature, which was opposed by the opposition and civil society groups, resulted in a wave of protests, violence and even a failed coup in May 2015.
Hundreds of people were killed and over 300,000 fled to neighboring countries.
THE MDC Alliance yesterday described embattled Eswatini monarch King Mswati III and President Emmerson Mnangagwa as “twins” in terms of the deteriorating human rights situation as well as shrinkage of democratic space in the two countries.
South Africa’s gross domestic product saw an expected surge in growth between July and September this year. The country’s annual figures rose by 66.1 percent after the Covid-19 restrictions were uplifted.
The economy had in the prior three months recorded a contraction of 51 percent during the nationwide lockwide.
The Africa’s most industrious economy was in a major recession even before the pandemic hit and later on proceeded to a further contraction.
Compared with the same period a year earlier, GDP shrank by 6% in the third quarter after a revised 17.5% contraction in Q2.
This major growth was mainly recorded from manufacturing, trade, and mining.
However, the recovery remains vulnerable, with power shortages and slow structural reforms likely to weigh on sentiment.
Unemployment also remains low at 30 percent yet it needs 5 percent economic growth to guarantee jobs. But the current projected growth rate is expected to be -8 percent.
Dodoma — THE Ministry of Information, Culture, Arts and Sports is preparing a Bill to be tabled in Parliament, for protecting and preserving the African liberation heritage areas against damage in the wake of several construction projects countrywide, parliament was told.
The Information Ministry was responding to a question posed by Tunduru North MP Engineer Ramo Makani, who sought to know when the government would incorporate Masonya, a centre located at FRELIMO Freedom Fighters area in the African Liberation Heritage Programme, under the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).
In a written response, the ministry stated that the government was seriously implementing the African Liberation Heritage Programme under UNESCO.
\"This Programme is being implemented in the African continent and lately, it is being implemented by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region,\" said the ministry, adding that the programme was approved by the 2005 UNESCO summit and endorsed by the ordinary meeting of AU heads of States in 2011.
SADC ministers convened for the African liberation heritage summit that aimed at bringing together ministers of arts and culture, senior government officials and technical experts from the region to deliberate on the best strategy for effectively implementing the African Liberation Heritage Programme (ALHP) as a collective.
POLITICAL Ombudsman Donna Parchment Brown is calling on Parliament to give teeth to the functions of her office to enable it to apply penalties and sanctions for breaches of the code of political conduct, and to create certain offences in law.
[ISS] The five-day terror attack on the coastal town of Palma last month once again stressed the severity of the conflict in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province. In its fourth year, the insurgency shows no signs of dissipating and exposes Mozambique's lack of political will to address the problem. It also reveals the Southern African Development Community's (SADC) difficulties in crafting a regional response.
[Daily News] THE East African Community (EAC) has been rated as the most integrated bloc among the eight Regional Economic Communities in Africa.
In their strongest rebuke yet of President Emmerson Mnangagwa since he took over in 2017, church leaders said abductions of government critics had reached alarming levels.
Initially the government blamed the abductions on an alleged third force comprised of disgruntled security agents from the previous Mugabe regime, but of late the authorities dismiss them as stunts by the opposition to attract the attention of the international community.
Nelson Chamisa, the MDC Alliance leader, appealed to the international community to intervene in Zimbabwe saying President Mnangagwa was using the Covid-19 induced lockdown to crush the opposition.
The MDC Alliance has since written to the UN special rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of punishment, Nils Melzer, asking for an investigation into the abduction of the activists.
The Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC), a quasi-government body, called for investigations into the mounting cases of abductions.
In Pemba, the port city of Cabo Delgado, the wait is coming to an end for some, as they are reunited with their relatives. But the situation is far from calm in the town of Palma, and other areas, where locals are fleeing.
Sanef has pleaded with President Cyril Ramaphosa to mobilise his SADC colleagues to urgently demand the government of Eswatini to adhere to media freedom.
As citizens in Ghana picked the country's next president this week, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), chair of the House Financial Services Committee, recalled the impact of former President Jerry Rawlings, who died on Nov. 12 at the age of 73.
