The new Constitution that was formally gazetted by Robert Mugabe on Wednesday makes his desired June election date technically unlawful, with months worth of preparations constitutionally required.
 
Mugabe and his ZANU PF party have been pushing for elections to be held as soon as the current Parliamentary term comes to an end on read more...

Nairobi — The Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) report that was unveiled some 48 hours ago has already started taking the heat with the commission's own chairperson Bethuel Kiplagat expressing fears that it might be rejected.
 
Kiplagat, who spoke to journalists on Thursday barely hours after he handed over the report read more...

The African Union Commission said on Thursday "African Vision 2063" has to be owned by the peoples of Africa at all of its stages.
 
In a press briefing at the AU headquarters, Deputy Chairperson of the Commission, Erastus Mwencha said, "we have all agreed that the exercise of preparing agenda for 2063 must be consultative read more...

Addis Ababa May 16, 2013 - As the leaders of the African Union gather in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to celebrate the continental organisation’s 50th anniversary, more than 46 civil society organisations deliberated on the present state of governance in Africa, by placing the continent’s premier governance mechanism, the APRM, under the microscope.  read more...

Abuja — The Nigeria Governors' Forum (NGF) has concluded plans to hold its second Governance Share Fair for South West states.
 
The fair is being organised by the NGF in collaboration with the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and State Partnership for Accountability, Responsiveness and Capability (SPARC), a competent read more...

Midrand — The opening acto f the second Ordinary Session of the Pan-African Parliament Thrid Legislature started with the welcoming remarks by chairperson of the organisation, Bethel N. Amdi.

During his speech, the head of Pan-African Parliament saluted and thanked all MPs and entities invited to attend the opening ceremony.

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Monrovia- The Center for Media Studies and Peace Building (CEMESP) has filed a writ of Mandamus with the Supreme Court to compel the Independent Information Commission to conduct a hearing on its complaint against the Liberia Anti Corruption Commission (LACC) for denying the release of asset declaration information.
 
CEMESP in November read more...

JOHANNESBURG, 30 April 2013 (IRIN) - South Africa attracts the largest number of asylum seekers in the world, but grants refugee status to very few of them, ranking only thirty-sixth in the world for the size of its refugee population, which the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) puts at about 58,000.
 
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TODAY, we are starting with a simple aptitude test in which the examiner expects us to be honest to ourselves: (a) We are fighting corruption (b) Corruption is consuming us (c) None of the above.
 
The correct answer is (b) - Corruption is consuming our nation. With each passing day, we are sinking deeper into the abyss. Why are these read more...

Addis Ababa — The US government has criticised countries in the East African region for their continued human rights violations and political oppression in its annual report on human rights practices around the world.
 
The US state department's 2012 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices accuses Ethiopia of continuing to severely read more...

The East African Legislative Assembly (EALA), which is sitting in Kigali, on Tuesday, passed the long-awaited One Stop Border Posts Bill, 2012, paving way for it to become a regional law if assented to by the EAC Heads of State.
 
The Bill will provide the framework for establishing One Stop Border Posts (OSBPs) in the five-member read more...

The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), in collaboration with the National Governing Council (NDC) and the Ministry of Political and Public Affairs (MPPA), on Tuesday 16th April 2013 officially launched the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) National Program of Action at the British Council Auditorium Hall, Tower Hill, and Freetown.

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His Excellency the President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma has on Tuesday 16th April 2013 launched the Sierra Leone African Peer Review Mechanism Country Review Report and the National Program of Action at the British Council Auditorium in Freetown.

Officially launching the Report, President Koroma said APRM is one of the flagship good governance read more...

Lagos — The Committee to Project Journalists condemns a recent decision by the Nigerian government to ban the exhibition and distribution of a documentary film on corruption in the state's management of oil wealth, "Fuelling Poverty."
 
In an April 8 ruling reviewed by CPJ, the federal government-run National Film and Video read more...

It is an honor for me to be with you today. The African Peer Review Mechanism is one of the flagship good governance programs that my Government is implementing, principally because of the opportunities it provides for the continued transformation of Sierra Leone.In September 2008, I launched the implementation of the APRM process in Sierra Leone and read more...

L'Afrique a ses atouts et ses faiblesses et le président de la République, Macky Sall, a souligné ces différentes caractéristiques lors de la réunion du conseil d'administration des fondations Open society (Osf), du 15 au 17 avril 2013. Il a également demandé aux donateurs read more...

Ugandan political activists and some members of parliament have kicked off a campaign they hope will lead to an amendment of the Constitution to restore presidential term limits.

Just last week, as Kenya was swearing in Uhuru Kenyatta, its fourth president since Independence, the Kampala-based Centre for Constitutional Governance (CCG) read more...

Senator Simeon Ajibola, who represents Kwara South Senatorial District, speaks with DAPO FALADE on the passage of his bill for "An Act to provide for the Establishment of the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) Commission and Other Related Matters” and other legislative functions. Excerpts:

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The EU has today agreed ground-breaking new rules forcing oil, gas, mining and logging companies to publish details of the payments they make to governments for access to natural resources around the world. By providing millions of citizens in resource-rich countries with detailed information about the money generated by their natural resource sectors, read more...

La petite ville de Sandtown à Johannesburg en Afrique du Sud a abrité en fin du mars 2013, la réunion des points focaux du Mécanisme africain d’évaluation par les pairs (MAEP). Plusieurs ministres, dont le nôtre Me Demba Traoré en charge des Maliens de l’extérieur et de l’Intégration africaine, ont pris read more...

ABIDJAN — Campaigning is underway in Ivory Coast for municipal and regional elections, although the opposition party of former president Laurent Gbagbo has vowed to boycott.  The country’s U.N. peacekeeping mission is warning against intimidation and threats of violence surrounding the April 21 vote. 
 
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This past weekend marked the 19th anniversary of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.  On April 6th, Hutu extremists began a killing spree that started with political opponents of the government.  Over the next several days and weeks, the world stood by as the campaign spread to include door to door slaughtering of Tutsis and moderate Hutus in the read more...

Un atelier visant à lancer le Projet « Renforcement du processus du Mécanisme Africain d’Evaluation par les Pairs (MAEP) », a été ouvert ce lundi à Lomé par le Premier ministre togolais Kwesi Séléagodji Ahoomey-Zunu, a constaté un journaliste de l’Agence Savoir News.

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Europe must reclaim its vision of a community based on solidarity.

Le Mécanisme africain d'évaluation par les pairs (MAEP), mis en place il y a 10 ans, est un Programme adopté volontairement par les Etats membres de l'Union africaine (UA) en vue de promouvoir et de renforcer des normes élevées de gouvernance. L’évaluation par les pairs  est un mécanisme  d'auto-évaluation. read more...

Addis Ababa, 8 April 2012 – Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission and Dr Teodros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Ethiopia launched today, 8 April 2013 in Addis Ababa, the celebrations marking the Golden Jubilee of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). They jointly lit read more...

Togo - Le projet « renforcement du processus du Mécanisme Africain d’Evaluation par les Pairs (MAEP) dans 5 pays ouest africains », à savoir le Bénin, le Burkina-Faso, le Ghana, le Mali et le Togo est officiellement lancé le lundi 08 Avril 2013 à Lomé.

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Retired Kampala assistant bishop Zac Niringiye has been attacked by government—and hailed by civil society for his political stances on bad governance and restoration of presidential term limits, among other issues. President Museveni has often singled him out for criticism. The president has advised the retired bishop severally to fight HIV/Aids among read more...

Harare — Even 33 years after Zimbabwean independence, President Mugabe remains a harsh critic of the white colonial government's system. But through the latest radio ban, he is imposing the same oppressive tactics that he himself once fought against to liberate his people.
 
As I write, Zimbabwe's statutes are still being starched read more...

The African Union has rejected Michel Djotodia as leader of the Central African Republic (CAR) after his Seleka rebel group seized power and forced President Francois Bozize to flee.
 
El-Ghassim Wane, spokesman for the African Union Peace and Security Commission, says the AU is working with its international partners to help resolve read more...

By Alvar Mwakyusa,

THE Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Mr John Haule, said that Tanzania still needs to be in the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), to enhance transparency and accountability towards good governance.

Mr Haule made the remarks in Dar es Salaam while read more...

The Senate has begun moves to revitalise the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) as the bill seeking to establish NEPAD Commission passes second reading in the Senate.

The sponsor of the bill, Senator Simeon Ajibola recalled how NEPAD was adopted as a policy development framework in 2001 in response to the problem of poor read more...

 Lagos — The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes Wednesday's ruling by Togo's Constitutional Court to reject repressive amendments to a media law that granted the state-run media regulator sweeping powers of censorship.
 
A panel of judges declared that six articles of Togo's 2009 press law, which were amended on February read more...

Luanda - The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), tasked with deepening and consolidating democratic practices among the African Union (AU) States, has currently 35 member countries, including Angola that joined the organisation in 2004.

The information was released by the Angolan Foreign Affairs minister, Georges Chikoti, who was speaking read more...

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is being urged to intervene in the ongoing crackdown against civic groups in Zimbabwe, in order to ensure a conducive environment for democratic elections this year.
 
This call was made by international rights monitor Human Rights Watch on Tuesday, which said that SADC, as the guarantors read more...

De "grandes avancées" ont été réalisées par l’Algérie dans le cadre de la mise en œuvre du mécanisme africain d’évaluation par les paires (MAEP), ont souligné, mercredi à Bechar, les animateurs d’une rencontre-débat sur l’évaluation du programme national sur la gouvernance.
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Human Rights Watch welcomes the recommendations in the UPR report and Ghana's commitment to implementing reforms to protect the rights of people with disabilities, including by improving the domestic legal framework; adopting programs to encourage positive community engagement with people with disabilities; and rolling out oversight measures in psychiatric read more...

March 11, 2013 will go down as a very significant day for the media in Rwanda. The day signaled an end to years of constant lobbying and deliberations in the corridors of power with the publication last Monday of the Official Gazette containing several new media-related laws, most of them revisions of older ones.
 
Most important is read more...

Y'en a marre a reçu, hier, à son Quartier général, la visite du fondateur d'Osiwa (Open society initiative for West Africa), Georges Soros, et ses collaborateurs du Conseil d'administration. En effet, exposant à ses hôtes de marque l'évolution et les perspectives du mouvement, Y'en marre, dans la collaboration read more...

L’ambassadeur-conseiller auprès du ministre délégué des Affaires maghrébines et africaines, M. Rabah Hadid, a estimé, hier à Sidi Bel-Abbès, que l’Algérie est "leader dans le domaine de la gouvernance en Afrique".

Intervenant lors d’un forum de sensibilisation sur le mécanisme africain read more...

After years of negotiations, Zimbabwe's draft constitution will be put to a referendum on 16 March. But is it the result of popular consultation or political wrangling?
 
On 15 September, 2008, President Robert Mugabe was forced into a political union with a bitter rival: Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T). read more...

THERE has been a proposal on whether the Judiciary should establish a special court for trying corruption cases in a bid to fight graft effectively.
 
Such idea has attracted a mixture of feelings among commentators with some supporting the proposal, while others are vehemently in opposition.
 
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By Richard Lee | 12 March 2013

It is a decision that could potentially change the electoral game in Zimbabwe.

In a landmark ruling, the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR) has passed a provisional measure directing the government to allow exiled Zimbabweans and those living abroad to vote in the country’s read more...

Today is International Women's Day and the beginning of a month-long emphasis on the lives of women and the challenges and opportunities they face in the 21st century. At the RAS, we began the month with an event held at Parliament discussing women's political participation and leadership in Africa.
 
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DAKAR, SENEGAL — The political deadlock in Guinea shows little sign of easing, as the government and opposition trade accusations and violent street clashes once again eclipse all other agendas. On Monday, opposition leaders opted out of a meeting the government says was a bid to tackle disputes about much-delayed legislative elections.
 
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The 10th anniversary of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) was, last Friday, launched in all member-states with the objective of creating significant awareness on APRM and the importance of its existence among African citizens.

The APRM was established on March 9, 2003 to ensure that policies and practices of member-states conform to the read more...

Le Mécanisme africain d'évaluation par les pairs (Maep) a dix ans cette année. Pour célébrer cet anniversaire, la Cellule nationale de gouvernance du Maep, face aux médias le 09 mars 2013 à Cotonou, entend faire connaitre au peuple béninois, cette institution.

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