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Democracy Works Foundation (DWF) says it working towards the improvement of the oversight role of Malawi Parliament by making sure that parliament is acting and following up on recommendations that are given to different committees of the National Assembly. Regional director of Democracy Works Foundation Augustine Magolowondo revealed this on Thursday 28th of September 2023 […]
The post Democracy Works Foundation for improved Malawi Parliament oversight role appeared first on Malawi 24.
\"Our Parliament has been reduced to a fish market with members jostling for five minutes of infamy. Is this the example our representatives want to set for our youth looking on?\"
Our Parliament has been reduced to a fish market with members jostling for 5 mins of infamy. Is this the example our representatives want to set for our youth looking on?
— Mickela (@mickelapanday) October 21, 2021
Leader of the Movement for Social Justice (MSJ) David Abdulah said, \"Does the UNC understand what they are doing? Their actions are seeking to dangerously divide the country. It is not about democracy. They are laying the basis for justifying why their motion will not succeed.
\"This is a serious issue but I am reminded of Explainer's Calypso – In Parliament they kicksin. The motion will be defeated
UNC Oropouche West MP Dave Tancoo on Saturday accused the PNM of discriminating against people based on their geographic location in Trinidad and Tobago. Tancoo made his action when he participated in a protest in Timital, San Francique. Also involved in the protest were Fyzabad MP Dr Lackram Bodoe and UNC councillor Doodnath Mayhroo.
Bodoe explained the road where the landslip occurred over the last 48 hours is a main artery between Fyzabad and Oropouche West. He expressed concern about further deterioration of the road and about a lack of response from Works and Transport Minister Rohan Sinanan to his letters for the road to be repaired.
After saying he could not exactly remember what Sinanan said about repairs to infrastructure during the recent Standing Finance Committee of the House, Tancoo said, \"Except that he said that this area and these landslips are not important enough.
He claimed, \"That is what the minister is telling citizens of this country who are taxpayers.\" Tancoo said that instead of fixing these roads, Sinanan \" is busy building highways in the east.\"
He alleged that Sinanan was depending on ordinary citizens to patch roads. \"While they fight us down and they deceive democracy in the Parliament, they cannot do that outside here because the voice of the people is the voice of God.\"
Tancoo claimed that if Sinanan and Rural Development and Local Government Minister Kazim Hosein lived in this area, the roads would be repaired quickly. \"This is geographic discrimination.The government of this country is discriminating against constituencies like this. This government hates the south but we are taxpayers too. This must stop now.\"
Mayhroo agreed with Bodoe and Tancoo. He called for Sinanan to resign if the road and other infrastructural problems in the area were not fixed in two weeks.
In separate protests in Couva North and Cumuto/Manzanilla, respective MPs Ravi Ratiram and Dr Rai Ragbir highlighted other infrastructural problems in their areas.
The post UNC MP accuses PNM of 'geographic discrimination' appeared first on Trinidad and Tobago Newsday.
Is this century a season for gunshots in Africa? Why is African politics dressed in a cloak of bloody violence and ethnically fuelled wars? Must the gunshots in Tigray be the identity of Ethiopia? Is it true that the gunshots in Central Africa must dictate the fabric of our democracy? Are the gunshots in Cameroon the only...
[East African] The Democratic Republic of Congo's bid to join the East African Community (EAC) has passed the technical committee stage with the regional Council of Ministers expected to deliver the final verdict this November.
The ANC Western Cape's election head, Cameron Dugmore, says the party won't be engaging the DA on coalitions in municipalities.
The White House said Friday that President Joe Biden would speak in the coming weeks about moving to “fundamentally alter” the filibuster or even eliminate the legislative roadblock that empowers the Senate minority as he aims to pass sweeping voting laws and secure the nation’s credit. Press secretary Jen Psaki said Americans should “stay tuned” about what changes Biden would […]
President Joe Biden honored the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on its 10-year anniversary in Washington, invoking King's persistent fight
The post Biden honors MLK memorial on anniversary, shouts out Morehouse College appeared first on TheGrio.
[Nation] The African Union (AU) High Representative for Infrastructure Development in Africa, Raila Odinga is calling on African Nations to invest in infrastructure as a lifeblood of economic recovery post Covid-19.
[Daily Maverick] Zwelinzima Vavi is the general secretary of the South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu)
Press Release - Authorities Should Respect the Right to Peaceful Protest
Eswatini security forces used live ammunition to break up a pro-democracy protest by nurses, shooting at least 30 of them, their union has said.
This story, originally published in The Dallas Morning News, is reprinted as part of a collaborative partnership between The Dallas Morning News and Texas Metro News. The partnership seeks to boost coverage of Dallas’ communities of color, particularly in southern Dallas.
The post Justice Department sues Texas to stop two provisions in new GOP elections law from taking effect appeared first on Texas Metro News.
[SAnews.gov.za] Parliament has urged all eligible and registered South Africans to honour those who fought for the right to vote by participating in the Local Government Elections on Monday.
Insiders said the lawsuit by Musengezi was part of a multi-pronged fight back by the faction sympathetic to Chiwenga, which is taking Mnangagwa head-on over unfulfilled promises that date back to the coup.
The post Chiwenga ‘faction’ turns heat on Mnangagwa appeared first on The Standard.
Consider technology-based development schemes that have been popularised in Africa over the years, and the huge budgets squandered on these schemes that we barely understand or have the support systems to make them work. Such a reflection, in these times of global fiscal austerity, will urge us to be impatient at resisting the pangs of failed sociopolitical experimentations that landed us where we are today. Because we do not need a sage to tell us that innovating and cutting down infrastructure cost holds the key to relieving the continent of its crippling debt recovery budgets to unlock our development potentials.
The post What Africa should do to avoid dependency syndrome appeared first on NewsDay Zimbabwe.
The SA National Editors' Forum has raised its concern over the police's \"heavy-handed actions\" against a journalist covering Monday's municipal elections.
Who will take the Cape Winelands, Central Karoo, Garden Route, Overberg and West Coast district municipalities?
The content originally appeared on: Trinidad and Tobago Newsday News Oropouche West MP Dave Tancoo, with fist in the air, supports San Francique residents during a protest over bad roads on Saturday. - Photo by Marvin Hamilton THE UNC's 'October Revolution' has begun. Two days after Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar alerted the public, the UNC launched its latest campaign against the ruling PNM on Saturday with a three-pronged attack of public protests in at least four UNC-controlled constituencies, internal expressions […]
Michigan Chronicle Editorial Board With Election Day, Tuesday, November 2, only about two weeks away, registered Detroit voters will have to make critical decisions that will shape the future of their city and region for years to come. Yet, while the mayoral race is primarily grabbing all of the headlines, perhaps one of the most impactful issues facing Detroiters will … Continued
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 October 2021: Norbert Neuser - a Member of the European Parliament and the EU Election Follow-up Mission and his team, held discussions with former President Koroma - the outgoing Chairman and Leader of the main opposition All Peoples Congress (APC), at his residence in Freetown on [Read More]
It remains unclear who carried out the arrests.Witnesses have said the internet is down in the the capital, Khartoum, while images have appeared on social media showing angry crowds burning tyres in the streets. Khartoum airport is now closed, and international flights are suspended.
[Radio Dabanga] Khartoum/Omdurman/Wad Madani/Port Sudan -- Large protests entered their second day after Sudan witnessed a coup at dawn yesterday when the Sudanese military arrested Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok and other civilian members of the government, announced a state of emergency, disbanded the Transitional Sovereignty council, and effectively seized power. According to the latest estimates, at least seven protestors were killed as security forces cracked down on the protests.
The content originally appeared on: Trinidad and Tobago Newsday News In this August 2015 file photo, UNC supporters wear yellow wigs at a political meeting in San Fernando. The UNC women, youth arms and national executive on Saturday endorsed Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar's call for an October Revolution in protest against the government after a failed motion to remove the President from office on October 21. - THE national executive, women's and youth arms of the Opposition UNC have all […]
Guinea's Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, who seized power in a coup in the West African nation in September, has announced that he is placing nearly 1,000 soldiers into retirement.
Matthew Purse was one of the most malevolent characters in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6. The horrifying extent of his extremism has gone unreported, until now.
[New Zimbabwe] Malawi president and SADC chairperson Lazarus Chakwera has called for the immediate and unconditional removal of sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the Western bloc of states saying this would facilitate economic recovery.
[Daily News] SEVERAL high ranking judicial officers from various countries in Africa continent converge today in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania for a special conference to discuss matters pertaining to the implementation and impact of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights.
… exhibition, covid-19 has revealed black Americans’ residual ill health; America has … the political and cultural influence African-Americans now wield. It also represents … political level, this is incontestable; African-Americans’ new rights were ignored. Yet …
Vice President Kamala Harris encouraged a few hundred people in Prince William County, Virginia, at a campaign rally Thursday for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe to stay vigilant as the increasingly close race enters the home stretch.
The post VP Kamala Harris Stumps for McAuliffe in Tight Virginia Governor's Race appeared first on The Washington Informer.
[United States Senate] Jersey City, NJ -- U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement regarding the attempted military coup in Sudan:
