PAR AÏDA COUMBA DIOP, 21 JANVIER 2013

La cérémonie officielle de rentrée sociale des étudiants de l'Université Gaston Berger (Ugb) de Saint-Louis sous le thème «Jeunesse et patriotisme» a été une occasion, pour Lire la suite...

By Correspondent

President Jakaya Kikwete will join other African Union Heads of State and Government to participate in the African Peer Review Forum (APRM) on January 26, 2013 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

During the Forum - a gathering of Heads of State and Government participating in the governance assessment mechanism - Lire la suite...

The Ministers of Education of both Liberia and Botswana over the weekend signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to improve the education sector of both countries.

Liberia Education Minister, Edmonia David Tarpeh said that the MOU was signed to address the most needed areas. Even though Minister Tarpeh did not name some of the areas Lire la suite...

Le chef de l'Etat a réitéré sa détermination à combattre l'enrichissement illicite.

Cependant, le secrétaire général de la Cour d'Appel, Souleymane Téliko, n'a pas manqué de relever certaines insuffisances sur la loi n° 81-54 du 10 juillet Lire la suite...

The United States and Liberia took steps Tuesday to strengthen their long relationship.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf signed the US-Liberia Partnership Dialogue Agreement in Washington.
 
Clinton said the agreement establishes working groups in three key Lire la suite...

French forces have begun ground operations in Mali, moving into the town of Niono just south of an area seized earlier this week by Islamist militants who control the northern part of the country.

French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said the fighting in Mali will be "long" and that his forces are moving from the capital toward Lire la suite...

By The guardian reporter

The Tanzania Country Review Report is scheduled for peer review at the 18th Summit of the African Peer Review Forum in January 2013 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; says new information posted on the APRM Continental Secretariat website.

According to a press statement availed to The Guardian yesterday, Lire la suite...

Five years in the making and two years later than the scheduled launch time, a survey conducted to gauge the level of corruption in Ethiopia was released last week, by the World Bank.

Nonetheless, it falls short of settling a rather lingering debate on whether corruption is getting as bad as many people think, which the nation's anticorruption Lire la suite...

The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) Report on Ethiopia was launched at the National Palace on Friday (January, 11th).

The launching ceremony was attended by Prime Minister Hailemariam and Minister Neway Gebreab, economic advisor to the Prime Minister as well as Ambassador Ashraf Rashed, Lead Member of the Panel, and Professor Amos Sawyer, Lire la suite...

The APRM undertook a Country Support Mission in Sudan from 30 September  to 4 October 2012, led by Ambassador Ashraf Rashed, member of the APR Panel of Eminent Persons.

The Support Mission Team comprised representatives of the Strategic Partners of the APRM, Ms. Zemenay Lakew from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Regional Lire la suite...

The APRM Country Review Mission (CRM) to Tanzania was undertaken in 2012. Thereafter, the Country Review Report was drafted and finalized by the Report Writing Committee. The Mission, which was led by Barrister Akere Tabeng Muna, member of the APR Panel of Eminent Persons, comprised 21 prominent African experts in the four thematic areas covered Lire la suite...

A new report by the respected global rights monitor, Human Rights Watch, has warned Zimbabwe's unity government that time is running out to implement key reforms that were agreed to in the Global Political Agreement (GPA), if credible elections are to be held later this year.

Titled "Race Against Time - The Need for Legal and Institutional Lire la suite...

PK6/ROSSO/NOUAKCHOTT, 8 January 2013 (IRIN) - Nearly 25,000 Mauritanian refugees who had sheltered in Senegal for two decades after fleeing violence in 1989, have returned home since 2008, but despite extensive efforts to resettle them in their original villages many lack ID papers and/or access to their old farmland.

Tens of thousands Lire la suite...

NAIROBI — Kenyan presidential hopeful Musalia Mudavadi says the conflict in Somalia has created new security challenges for Kenya as the country prepares for elections in March.  In an interview with VOA Wednesday, the deputy prime minister said the country's security agencies will have to be extra vigilant to ensure a peaceful vote.

As Lire la suite...

Security challenges, which have prompted the Federal Government to deploy troops to many parts of the federation, have forced Nigeria to scale down the number of men of the armed forces it will contribute to a sub-regional military contingent for peacekeeping in Mali.

THISDAY learnt yesterday that Nigeria would now contribute 450 soldiers Lire la suite...

This is a report of a baseline survey on the right to information for internally displaced persons (IDPs) that was conducted by Article 19 Eastern Africa in December 2011 in the Rift valley, Nyanza, Coast and Western provinces in Kenya. The study was conducted within the ARTICLE 19 project - Sharing Vital Information: Empowering the Displaced Lire la suite...

The newly-sworn in President of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama has appealed to the opposition political parties to accept his victory as infinite political triumph for the entire country as against their feelings of loss.

Mahama, who may have taken a cue from the absence of the leaders of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), which boycotted the Lire la suite...

Ghana’s information minister says all is set for the inauguration of President John Dramani Mahama Monday, despite threats by opposition lawmakers to boycott the ceremony.

"The common advise is that they should come because of the sitting of parliament, but they are entitled to boycott the event if they so wish. But what they should Lire la suite...

Pretoria — African Union Commission chairperson, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, has hit the ground running in 2013, outlining the commission's major points of focus as the new year begins.

"The commission is aware of the challenges that lie ahead of us, as well as of the need to consolidate the gains that have been made thus far.

"The Lire la suite...

L'ancien ministre djiboutien de l'Intérieur, Abdoulkader Doualeh Wais, a été élu mercredi président coordinateur national du Bureau du Mécanisme Africain d'Evaluation par les Pairs (MAEP) de Djibouti.

Le nouveau président du MAEP, qui a pris la parole à cette occasion, s'est dit conscient Lire la suite...

 KAMPALA, 17 December 2012 (IRIN) - Hundreds of millions of dollars in donor aid have been withheld from Uganda in recent months, threatening post-war rehabilitation in the northern region and key public investments across the country.
 
Keith Muhakanizi, deputy secretary to the Treasury, told IRIN that donors, under Lire la suite...

During the implementation of the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) 1, a group of Liberian CSOs started to monitor the quality and equity of service delivery in Liberia from a Human Rights Perspective. They want to continue doing so under the PRS 2, and with support from the GAP, a strategy and methodology was developed to improve the quality of the Lire la suite...

Bujumbura, Burundi, 13 December 2012: The African Union Commission (AUC), Department of Political Affairs (DPA), is convening a continental workshop on the development of an AU Strategy and Framework for Reconstructing the Public Service and Administration in Post Conflict Countries in Bujumbura, Burundi, from 13-15 December 2012.

The Lire la suite...

If there is anything that gladdens the heart of Nigerian viewers this year, it is the coming into the Pay TV market by GOtv and NTA Startime.

At least an average person on the street, who had thought the Pay TV platform, was an exclusive of the rich had a succor that he or she could benefit through the new comers. They were not only Lire la suite...

By GEORGE OMONDI

IN SUMMARY
• Under the rules, the region will come up with a neutral team of professionals —whose membership will include representative of women and youth from the region – to act as electoral observers.
• The region will also deploy election evaluation missions where Lire la suite...

ACCRA — Ghana announced the results of its presidential election late Sunday.  According to the country's electoral commission, John Dramani Mahama has won reelection.  But his opponent has not conceded defeat.

Security forces with tanks and heavy artillery guarded Ghana’s electoral commission ahead of the announcement.

Electoral Lire la suite...

Poll observers from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) say they are pleased with preparation efforts ahead of Ghana’s general election Friday.

ECOWAS Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security, Salamatu Hussaini Suleiman says she is pleased with the security arrangements for the vote.                              Lire la suite...

NAIROBI, 6 December 2012 (IRIN) - The African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) 2009, also known as the Kampala Convention, came into force on 6 December; it is the world’s first legally binding instrument to cater specifically to people displaced within their own countries.

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NAIROBI, 4 December 2012 (IRIN) - After Kenya went to the polls five years ago, Victor Situma and his family were among some 600,000 people who fled their homes as, in many parts of the country, a bitter dispute over who had won the presidency degenerated into widespread inter-communal violence. His house and shop were looted and vandalized. In Lire la suite...

ABIDJAN, 4 December 2012 (IRIN) - The adoption by Côte d'Ivoire’s parliament of a law on equality between legally married couples has sparked anger, especially among religious people. For them, this law will create more problems in the home than it will solve.

Adopted on 21 November, the law says family affairs should be managed jointly Lire la suite...

Abuja - Nigeria — The 250-member ECOWAS Election Observation Mission is due in Accra on Thursday 29th November for Ghana’s 7th December general elections, within the context of the region’s instrument for provision of support to Member States holding elections.

The team, comprising representatives of various segments of the West African Lire la suite...

JOHANNESBURG, 29 November 2012 (IRIN) - People in developing countries have been learning to adapt to increasing salinity, erratic rains and, in some instances, frequent flooding as the climate changes. But a new study has taken a closer look at some of these adaptation strategies and found that, past a certain threshold, they cease to work.

The Lire la suite...

GOMA, 27 November 2012 (IRIN) - As Masisi, a lush territory in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), finds itself surrounded by military elements and mounting conflict, humanitarian agencies grow increasingly concerned about its civilian population.

M23, eastern Congo's latest rebel group, emerged in Masisi District in April when Lire la suite...

MAPUTO, 28 November 2012 (IRIN) - Eulalia Laichela caressed her six-year-old son, Leosio, who lay on the pavement, coughing from beneath a blanket. They had been waiting in the park outside José Macamo, one of the largest hospitals in Mozambique's capital Maputo, since early morning.

Laichela hoped her sister-in-law, Lire la suite...

THE Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) has maintained that the deadline for the migration from analogue to digital broadcasting that was set for December 31, this year, will not be extended.

Head of Corporate Communications at the TCRA, Mr Innocent Mungy, said in Dar es Salaam that the deadline, which has also been agreed Lire la suite...

An African Union-appointed taskforce has recommended the creation of a continental research council, to ensure that science becomes an effective instrument in overcoming underdevelopment, creating wealth and improving livelihoods in Africa.

The taskforce concluded that the case for the establishment of an African Research Council (ARC) Lire la suite...

NEARLY 43 000 Zimbabweans have been deported from South Africa since October last year for living in that country without proper documentation.

The deportations started in October last year following the expiry of the July 31, 2011 deadline for the Zimbabweans to regularise their stay there.

The amnesty ran from May 5 2009 Lire la suite...

"Africa is looking for MDG-plus, an agenda that recognises the impact of climate change, the global finance and food crisis. The new agenda must involve consultation on the African side.”

These remarks were made by African Union Commissioner for Economic Affairs Dr Maxwell Mkwezalamba, who spoke on behalf of AUC Chair Dr Nkosana Lire la suite...

After a Presidential election, which was praised by international observers including the EU and the Carter Center, President Ernest Bai Koroma has been re-elected for a second term in office. This is the third democratic elections since Sierra Leone’s scarred recent past, which has led to growing stability and economic growth over the last decade.

Commenting Lire la suite...

Akyem Oda, Nov. 21, GNA - Ms Ophelia Koomson, Birim Central Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), said the assembly has performed well in the four thematic areas of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM).

 They are Democracy and Good Political Governance, Economic Governance and Management, Corporate Governance and Socio-economic Development.

Mr Lire la suite...

Former Head of State Yakubu Gowon, and a frontline nationalist, Alhaji Maitama Sule, on Tuesday urged Nigerians to support the Federal Government's war against corruption.

The duo made the call in Abuja at a seminar organised by the FCT Public Complaints Commission with the theme: "The Role of Public Complaints Commission in a Democratic Lire la suite...

The suspension of the Southern African region's human rights court is now set to be tackled at one of the highest levels in Africa, after the African Commission on Human and People's rights agreed to hear a formal complaint about the matter.

The African Commission ruled on Tuesday that the complaint lodged with it on behalf of Zimbabwean Lire la suite...

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday congratulated the people of Sierra Leone for the peaceful and orderly elections held yesterday, the first one run entirely by the Government since the end of the West African nation's brutal civil war 10 years ago.

The voter turnout was reportedly high for the four elections - presidential, parliamentary, Lire la suite...

PRELIMINARY DECLARATION

I. Introduction

1. Pursuant to the Constitutional Convergence Principles of the Supplementary Protocol on Democracy and Good Governance (2001), and within the framework of the Program of Assistance to Member States organizing elections, the President of the ECOWAS Commission, His Excellency Kadré Lire la suite...

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The Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) has agreed on a revised concept of operations for the deployment of an international military force of 3,300 soldiers to help the Malian state wrest control of the northern part of the country from Islamist fighters.

This step, taken on November 11 following a Lire la suite...

LOME (Xinhua) - Quelque 80 acteurs des différents secteurs du monde agricole prennent part à Lomé, à un atelier de validation de trois études relatives au Programme national d'investissement alimentaire et de sécurité alimentaire ( PNIASA) a constaté lundi l'agence Xinhua.

Ces trois études Lire la suite...