Kenya was elected on Monday to one of the coveted seats on the United Nations Human Rights Council.

There was no expressed opposition to Kenya in the 193-nation General Assembly, which decides the make-up of the 47-member council.

Kenya was one of five countries nominated to fill five open seats on the Geneva-based council read more...

A senior researcher at the Institute for Security Studies Africa (ISS) has suggested that the political process of negotiation be continued as the military intervention is being planned for northern Mali.

Lori-Anne Therou-Benoni thinks that the threat of a military intervention could help speed up the negotiations, and noted, however, read more...

Les crimes sexuels sont au centre des poursuites menées par la Cour pénale internationale (CPI), a indiqué, lundi à Dakar, la procureure générale de cette juridiction, la Gambienne Fatou Bensouda.
''Les crimes sexuels sont au centre et au premier plan des enquêtes et poursuites de read more...

Introductory Background- the Problem

One broad and clear consensus that has emerged during this 2012 Constitutional review process is the outcry for the real decentralization of the governance system of Nigeria. The 1999 Constitution places a lot of emphasis on representative governance read more...

On 17 November Sierra Leoneans will go to the polls in presidential, parliamentary and local elections.

Over a decade ago, after years of turmoil and unrest, Sierra Leoneans were encouraged to embrace democracy as the means of restoring peace and reviving this once flourishing West African country.

Great sacrifices were made read more...

National Election Watch NEW, OneWorld, and SMAG Media have put together the people and technology to operate a Citizens' Situation Room that will contribute to a credible, free, fair and free from fear election in 2012. With funding from OSIWA and DFID, NEW's 9,493 Observers – one in every Polling Station read more...

LAGOS, Nigeria – West African nations on Sunday agreed to send some 3,000 troops to help the country of Mali wrest back control of its northern half, which was read more...

President Jakaya Kikwete has advised the East African Community Secretariat in Arusha to be cautious as far as the proposed monetary union in the region is concerned.

"The first East African Community which collapsed in 1977, started crumbling at the monetary union stage about 1963 when each of the founding three states--Kenya, read more...

Le sixième Indice Ibrahim de la gouvernance en Afrique (IIAG) 2012 a été publié hier mercredi 7 novembre 2012. Il confirme la tendance générale à l’amélioration du niveau global de gouvernance sur le continent depuis 2000. Cependant, le Sénégal qui a reculé dans le classe pointe à la 16ième read more...

La commission nationale de la gouvernance du MAEP a initié un atelier le jeudi 08 novembre au centre international de conférence de Bamako (CICB) ; la cérémonie d’ouverture était présidée par le secrétaire général du ministère des Maliens de l’extérieur read more...

Le Sénat a adopté mercredi 7 novembre la loi fixant à 30% le quota minimum de représentation des femmes dans les institutions en RDC. Cette loi organique, qui fixe les modalités d'application d'un prescrit de la constitution, contient aussi des sanctions devant garantir son application, notamment une read more...

The Committee against Torture this morning began its consideration of the third periodic report submitted by Senegal on how it implements the provisions of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.

Introducing the report, Fodé Seck, the Permanent Representative of Senegal to the read more...

La question majeure posée par l'annonce de la création d'un nouveau département ministériel chargé de la Promotion de la Bonne gouvernance est liée à la difficulté naturelle découlant de la volonté du Chef de l'État de traduire un concept, la bonne Gouvernance, en une réalité read more...

The extraordinary meeting of the ECOWAS Committee of the Chiefs of Defence Staff (CCDS) ended in Bamako last night with a resolution to present conclusions reached to the meeting of Heads of State and Government holding in Abuja later this week.

The meeting was attended by Nigeria, Cote d'Ivoire, Senegal, the Gambia, Liberia, Togo, Bukina read more...

Policy analysts, scholars and researchers from Africa have partly blamed colonialists for the persistence of conflicts in the Great Lakes Region that resulted from the manner in which the countries were administered during the colonial period.

They made the observation yesterday during the opening of a regional high level conference on read more...

Africa’s strategy for human capital should focus on Africa’s youth who do not have basic education and the unemployed being produced at different levels of the education system. Priority needs to be placed on the growing creative sector and ensuring the sustainability of this growing market in Africa.

These read more...

All is now set for President Jakaya Kikwete to showcase the country's endeavors in promoting governance in political, economic, corporate and socio-economic areas under the African Union governance assessment instrument-the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM).

According to the coordinator of the Tanzanian review process, Dr. Rachel Mukamunana read more...

African countries should put trade on top of the agenda in their bilateral agreements and invest heavily in education and research if the continent is to register inclusive growth.

This is the message from some experts and policy makers attending the ongoing African Economic Conference in Kigali.

According to experts, many African countries read more...

Nairobi — Local electoral observers have raised concerns that Kenya is not ready for the March 4, 2013 general election, hours after the long awaited Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) kits arrived in the country.

A Programmes Officer at the Electoral Institute for the Sustainability of Democracy in Africa (EISA) Willis Otieno said that the Independent read more...

By Aruna Turay

The 3rd Annual General Meeting of the Network of Electoral Commissions in West Africa (ECONEC) has elected Dr. Christiana Thorpe of Sierra Leone as the new President of the Coordinating Committee which pilots ECONEC's affairs for the next two years.

The new Committee also has General Siaka Sangane (Mali) read more...

NEPAD will be launching two flagship Publications, ‘Africa’s Decade of Change’, a knowledge product highlighting the key outcomes and reflections of the 10th anniversary of NEPAD as the flagship development programme of the African Union. It is a result of the close working collaboration between the NEPAD Agency, United Nations Office of the Special read more...

C'est sous la présidence de Son Excellence Kadré Désiré Ouedraogo, Président de la Commission de la CEDEAO empêché, représenté pour la circonstance par Son Excellence Monsieur Toga Gayewea MCINTOSH, Vice-président de la commission, que s'est ouverte l'Assemblée Générale read more...

A methodology survey conducted by the Gomoa West District Oversight Committee of the Africa Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) on five communities has revealed that 88 per cent of children between 5-14 years do not attend school.

The survey which was undertaken from July and August was held at Gomoa Dego, Gomoa Brofoyedru, Apam, Mumford and read more...

New Anti-Corruption Model Law Will Help to Strengthen Good Governance - Law Officers 

The Commonwealth draft model Integrity in Public Life Act covers code of conduct, guidelines on conflict of interest and declarations of interest, and mechanisms to investigate breaches read more...

Apam (C/R), Oct. 23, GNA – The President of the African Peer Review Mechanism Governing Council, Rev. Prof. S.K. Adjepong has urged African countries to eschew violence in politics in order to promote good governance and development of the continent.

Speaking at validation workshop on draft Gomoa West District APRM Governance report at read more...

The ECOWAS Commission has underscored the centrality of the independence, professionalism, fairness and integrity of Electoral Management Bodies (EMBs) to the collective efforts to nurture democratic culture in West Africa.

In a keynote address to the third General Assembly of the Network of Electoral Commission in West Africa (ECONEC), read more...

In Liberia, teachers of the Monrovia Consolidated School System (MCSS) in Monrovia have begun their second week of what they called a "go-slow action” to demand salary increases.

The teachers are ignoring a plea from the government of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to return to their classes. 

The government said it read more...

Apam (C/R), Oct. 22, GNA -The President of the national African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) Governing Council, Rev. Professor Samuel Kwesi Adjepong, has said that democracy cannot thrive in an atmosphere of violence.

Rev. Professor Adjepong was speaking at a validation workshop on draft district APRM governance report for the Gomoa West read more...

LAGOS—Ten state Governors including Governor Babatunde Fashola, SAN, Adams Oshiomhole, Emmanuel Uduaghan and Rochas Okorocha were given awards for their commitment to poverty reduction, infrastructural and educational development at the just concluded NEPAD Business Group of Nigeria, NBGN 2nd annual general meeting in Lagos.

Other Governors read more...

Nkoranza (B/A), Oct. 18, GNA – Professor S.K.B. Asante, Chairman of the National African Peer Review Mechanism (NAPRM) Governing Council, has said the sustainability of peace in the country was the responsibility of every Ghanaian.

He appealed to Ghanaians to be circumspect in their utterances so that Election 2012 we would be free, fair and read more...

GABORONE, BOTSWANA, 16-18 OCTOBER 2012

PREAMBLE

1. The Government of the Republic of Botswana, the United Nations Development Programme’s Regional Bureau for Africa (UNDP/RBA), the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the African Union (AU) jointly held the Eighth African Governance read more...

By Siphosami Malunga, Salah S Hammad, Said Adejumobi

Yesterday, Botswana began hosting the Eighth African Governance Forum in conjunction with the African Union, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. 250 delegates from around the continent were expected to attend, including past read more...

Addis Ababa, 17 October 2012 (ECA) – UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Secretary of ECA, Mr. Carlos Lopes has said that Africa’s rise may see a decline in strong-man attitudes during electoral processes. Mr. Lopes was speaking at the 3-day eighth edition of the African Governance Forum that ends on 18th October in Gaborone, Botswana. "As Africa read more...

Mr. President, the United States welcomes the report of the Secretary General on the "New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD)” and the report "2001-2010: Decade to Roll Back Malaria in developing countries and particularly Africa”. We appreciate the opportunity to address them together.

The United States strongly supports Africa’s read more...

17 October 2012 – The United Nations system and African countries must strengthen their partnership to advance the continent’s economic growth, development and participation in the global economy, the President of the General Assembly said today.

"Ensuring Africa’s development should be a strategic task for the entire United Nations system,” read more...

Assembly Also Considers Conflict in Africa, Search for Durable Peace, Development, as well as Efforts to Tackle Malaria in Developing Countries

Sixty-seventh General Assembly Plenary 25th & 26th Meetings (AM & PM)

Summary: 17 October 2012, New York - Statement by the European Union at the United Nations 67th Session of the General Assembly Plenary on NEPAD/Malaria

I have the honour to speak on behalf of the European Union and its Member States.

The Acceding Country Croatia, the Candidate Countries the former Yugoslav read more...

After successfully achieving a gender parity law in parliament, Senegalese women are holding consultations on drafting a bill that will confer their nationality on the children they bear for non-Senegalese spouses.

Currently, only Senegalese men enjoy the right to pass their nationality on to their children by non-Senegalese women.

The read more...

By KEMO CHAM in Freetown

Sierra Leone's two main presidential hopefuls will have the opportunity to explain their policies to a national audience in the first ever head-to-head presidential debate on October 30.

The read more...

La commission nationale de gouvernance du Mécanisme Africain d’Evaluation par les Pairs (MAEP), et le ministère des maliens de l’extérieur et de l’intégration africaine dans leur dynamique à améliorer davantage les performances du Mali en matière de bonne gouvernance, viennent de procéder la semaine dernière à la tenue read more...

The 2012 Index of African Governance (IIAG) has been launched in London. This is the sixth year in which governance outcomes in Africa have been measured, looking at both country and regional performances across four major categories -Safety & Rule of Law, Participation & Human Rights, Sustainable Economic Opportunity and Human read more...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 15 October 2012-The African Union Commission, as the secretariat of the African Union will seek to define and build a trajectory that extracts the continent from poverty to development, said Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, at her installation as the Commission's Chairperson today, presided over by the Chairperson of the African Union, read more...

The Pan African Parliament is to send a team to monitor Kenya's election process ahead of the General Election.

Mr Bethel Amadi, Speaker of the South African based assembly, said the delegation will monitor all aspect's of the process before the March 4, elections.

"We are convinced that consensus building need to be done before read more...

The Pan-African Parliament (PAP) Monday opened the first ordinary session of the Third Parliament in Midrand, South Africa, with a call from Hon. Bethel Nnaemeka Amadi, president of the PAP to the current chairperson of the African Union (AU) Dr. Thomas Boni Yayi, president of the Republic of Benin, who came to the PAP as its guest of honour, to support read more...

Pan African Parliament seeks legislative powers

by Nick Kotch,

AFTER eight years languishing in impotent obscurity, Africa's parliament appealed to continental leaders on Monday to start taking it seriously by giving it the powers to do the real work of legislation and oversight read more...

African governments need to develop self-reliance and increase spending to combat HIV/ AIDS as donor funding is drying up, the president of Pan African Parliament (PAP) , Mr Bethel Amadi has said.

Amadi, made the appeal while speaking with newsmen in Johannesburg, South Africa on Tuesday at the ongoing First Ordinary Session of the Third read more...

Le Centre Africa Obota a procédé hier jeudi 4 octobre 2012 au lancement officiel du projet de création de l'Observatoire de la justice béninoise. Ce creuset mis en place grâce au partenariat entre le Cao, le Credij, L'Ong Dhpd et l'Osiwa, devra permettre d'observer de façon continue la justice béninoise au moyen d'outils read more...