Holness, Paulwell score low on accountability meter

Rwanda: MPs Raise Concern As Govt Cuts Agriculture Spending

Members of Parliament (MPs) have expressed concerns over the government proposal to slash spending on agriculture by 35 per cent, saying that the move would affect farm

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Source: allAfrica.com

Rwanda: Government to Establish Sex Offenders' Registry

Rwanda Public Prosecution Authority (NPPA) has started the process to a national registry of all individuals convicted for offences of rape and

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Source: allAfrica.com

Jubilee puts rebel MPs on notice

Ten MPs allied to Deputy President William Ruto have accused the party leadership of using State agencies to harass and intimidate

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Source: Daily Nation - Breaking News, Kenya, Africa, Politics, Business, Sports | HOME

Mliswa savages government

Norton MP Temba Mliswa (Independent) yesterday savaged the government for allowing minority sports to resume activity, while keeping the majority disciplines which earn the country money on

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Zimbabwe: Tyson's Brother Quizzed Over 'Coup'

State security agents interrogated former Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere's brother, on the day government claimed there were people spreading rumours of an "imminent

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Source: allAfrica.com

Court orders NSSF to join Ngong Forest land case

The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) will now have to fight in court to keep a 1,000-acre-portion of Ngong Forest it bought from Ankhan Holdings — a company associated with Jonathan Moi, Sammy Boit Kogo and Hubert Nyambu Mwakibwa — as the Kenya Forest Service seeks to reclaim the prime

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Source: Daily Nation - Breaking News, Kenya, Africa, Politics, Business, Sports | HOME

Trelawny MPs square off over road repair

The Hyde community currently sits in the Trelawny Northern constituency, which is represented by Victor Wright of the Opposition People's National Party (PNP), but a recent change of the electoral boundaries will see the area forming part of the Trelawny Southern constituency, which is represented

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Rwanda: Make Public Servants' Salaries Priority, MPs Tells Government

They made the call on Friday, May 29 during a budget hearing session by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on National Budget and Patrimony in which the Ministry of Health and its affiliated agencies where defending the budgetary allocation to the health sector during the upcoming financial

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Source: allAfrica.com

Vaz calls Phillips 'chief hypocrite'

CABINET Minister Daryl Vaz yesterday labelled Dr Peter Phillips “chief hypocrite” in response to the Opposition leader's call for sanctions against him arising from his (Vaz's) failed attempt to lease land at Holywell in the Blue and John Crow Mountains national

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Tanzania: Fired Ministers Shared Mixed Fortunes

He served as a minister for Home Affairs in President John Magufuli's cabinet for five months, from December

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Source: allAfrica.com

Zimbabwe: 2014 MDC-T National Council Backing Chamisa Illegal - Mwonzora

Reinstated MDC-T secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora has dismissed a reconvened 2014 MDC-T National Council meeting held at the party's headquarters Thursday as "illegal" in the unfolding political drama that seems to be ripping the main opposition

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Source: allAfrica.com

Africa coronavirus: DRC's returnees from Europe, Zim lockdown extended

Major African stats: May 16 at 7:30

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Bermuda gets its first Black and female Governor in its 400-year history

8|24 #MambaMentality

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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice

Zimbabwe: MP Confronts Police Over Fatal Shooting of Bulawayo Man

An MDC-Alliance legislator has called on the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) and the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) to speedily institute investigations into the fatal shooting of a Bulawayo man by

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Source: allAfrica.com

Questions over $6 million school donation Paulwell requested from Petrojam

The Integrity Commission has raised questions about a donation by state-owned oil refinery Petrojam to Camperdown High School in

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Tanzania: Zitto Found Guilty of Uttering Seditious Statement, Released On Conditional Discharge

THE Kisutu Resident Magistrate's Court in Dar es Salaam has found the leader of Alliance for Change and Transparency (ACT) Wazalendo, Zitto Kabwe, guilty in three sedition counts, for allegedly linking the police force with killing over 100 people in Kigoma

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Broadgate headache - Residents weary of prolonged Junction road project, never-ending dynamite blasts

Ongoing works to rehabilitate the Broadgate section of the Junction main road in St Mary have been irritating many residents, who are yearning for the project to be wrapped up, giving them a reprieve from the dust nuisance and dynamite blasts constantly terrorising

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Condemn Zim human rights violations, EU Parly told

AN informal network of European non-governmental organisations, the Zimbabwe Europe Network (ZEN) has called on the European Union Parliament to pass a resolution condemning ongoing human rights violations in the southern African

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Campbell rakes JLP councillors for shoddy roads

Being in the unenviable position of having no councillors umbilically linked to his People’s National Party (PNP) operating inside the St Ann North West constituency, two-term Member of Parliament Dr Dayton Campbell has fired a salvo at the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) local government

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

14-year-old Noah is leading the call to bring Belgium's statue of King Leopold II down

Noah, a teenager is determined to bring Belgium‘s controversial statue of King Leopold II crashing

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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice

Kenya: Governor Tolgos Hails Jubilee Purge on Senate Leadership

Elgeyo-Marakwet Governor Alex Tolgos has welcomed the changes President Uhuru Kenyatta made to the Senate Jubilee leadership, saying that those kicked out had publicly disrespected the party

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Source: allAfrica.com

Uganda: Bobi Wine Tasks Govt to Account for COVID-19 Money, Relief Food

Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine, has called on the government to account for the relief items and money that has been given to the Covid-19 National

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Source: allAfrica.com

Zimbabwe: MDC Alliance Vice Presidents Biti and Karenyi Arrested

MDC alliance deputy presidents Tendai Biti and Lynette Karenyi-Kore have been arrested after their efforts to gain entry into Harvest House were thwarted by members of the Zimbabwe Republic

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Source: allAfrica.com

Uganda: What Zedriga Brings On Board As Bobi Wine's Deputy

"Ours is not going to be the politics of praise and favour; it will be politics of a service, inclusiveness and humanity," Dr Lina Zedriga Waru Abuku said after being unveiled as People Power deputy principal by Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine, last

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MP defends record as MP as constituents clamour for factories, water

Incumbent St Ann South West Member of Parliament (MP) Zavia Mayne has defended his stewardship of the constituency since being elected in February 2016. Mayne, whose performance has drawn criticism from his political rivals, argues that his work...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Kenya: Rift Valley Elders Call for Talks Between Uhuru, DP Ruto

Elders and political leaders from the Rift Valley are mounting pressure on President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto to sit down and talk over the thorny issues in Jubilee Party, saying this will ease the rising

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Source: allAfrica.com

R239 million in salaries - this is what SA will have to pay the Cuban medical brigade

The South African government will pay more than R239 million in salaries for the 187 members of the Cuban medical brigade, who, according to Minister of Health Zweli Mkhize, are specialists in areas in which South Africa has

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Ghana coronavirus: 7,768 cases, infections hit Jubilee oil fields

Total confirmed cases = 7,768

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Kenya: Court Issues Arrest Warrant Against Former MP Rege

The court heard that Rege, then being the MP for Karachuonyo improperly used his office for the fraudulent procurement of telemedicine equipment for the said hospital thereby conferring an improper benefit of Sh909, 398 on Alliance Logistics Centre

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Source: allAfrica.com

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