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...

Bolgatanga, Oct 5, GNA - Most Reverend Paul Bemele, the Catholic Bishop of Wa Diocese, has said the Africa Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) was crucial and contributes significantly to good governance and efficient service delivery.

Bishop Bemele, a member of the Governing Council of APRM, said this at a Validation workshop on "The State of Governance read more...

 Building on some successes in its ten years of existence, The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) has been planning and assessing new approaches to ensuring the effective implementation of its programmes in the next decade.

To its credit, NEPAD’s has fared well in supporting the implementation of the African Peer read more...

L'Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre participe au débat en cours sur la manière de développer une relation viable entre la question légitime de la sécurité nationale et la promotion du droit du public à la liberté d'information. Il s'agit de trouver l'équilibre entre la liberté d'information et la read more...

A key ally of Ivory Coast's former President Laurent Gbagbo has gone on trial in Abidjan, in the first case of those accused over the 2010-11 post-election violence.

General Dogbo Ble was the commander of the Republican Guard under Mr Gbagbo.

He and seven other security officials read more...

Quand Macky Sall est arrivé au pouvoir en avril, il avait promis d'adopter une démarche de rupture en changeant de ligne politique par rapport à son prédécesseur Abdoulaye Wade dont il était le premier ministre d'avril 2004 jusqu'en juin 2007.

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Kenya’s High Court is scheduled to rule Monday whether citizens living outside the country can vote in the March 4 general elections next year.

An activist group, the Kenyan Diaspora Alliance has asked the court to force the nation’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) to allow citizens abroad to register and vote read more...

Les députés de l'opposition ont suspendu, samedi 29 septembre, leur participation aux discussions actuellement en cours dans la commission Politique administrative et juridique (PAJ) de l'Assemblée nationale autour du projet de loi sur la réforme de la Commission électorale nationale indépendante read more...

By Felister Peter

Following President Jakaya Kikwete's efforts to combat corruption by taking legal measures against government executives found guilty of the vice, Tanzania has been commended for good governance and progressive socio-economic development.

Chief of African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) Support Section of the United Nations read more...

L'Assemblée nationale a jugé recevable, mercredi 26 septembre, le projet de loi portant modification de la loi sur la réforme de la Commission électorale nationale indépendante (Ceni). Deux projets de loi portant sur la même matière avaient élaboré. La plénière va examiner celui du gouvernement read more...

U.N. members appeared deeply divided on Wednesday as they sought to resolve the crisis in Mali, with France and some of Mali's neighbors backing possible military intervention while the United States said the West African nation first must have an elected government.

A special U.N. session on Mali, held on the sidelines read more...

The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) has confirmed that all is set for President Jakaya Kikwete to defend Tanzania's governance record at the APRM Forum of Heads of States and Government in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in January, 2013.

Speaking in Dar es Salaam on Tuesday during the opening of a two-day workshop for Tanzanian officials on harmonisation read more...

A moins d'un miracle, la Guinée plus d'une décennie de course ponctuée d'échecs derrière le programme des pays pauvres très endettés (PPTE), va obtenir son point d'achèvement ce mercredi 26 septembre 2012.

De sources concordantes, l'annonce de cette décision n'attend plus que la fin des travaux read more...

Only through more equitable partnerships with the global community can African nations achieve full development and consolidate democracy, Senegal's President, Macky Sall, told the United Nations General Assembly's high-level debate today, while also addressing the precarious state of peace and security in West Africa.

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Calm is returning Monday to Conakry, the Guinean capital, after President Alpha Condè called for an end to violence following two days of clashes between supporters of his party and the main opposition Union of Democratic Forces of Guinea (UFDG).

At least one member of the opposition UFDG led by Cellou Dalein Diallo was reportedly killed read more...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and Mali's government have agreed to the deployment of a standby force to the West African country, where Islamist militants control the north.

"Thankfully, there is now a consensus around the mandate of the force, which is the same mandate that the heads of state had decided, and read more...

Le projet de loi portant suppression du Senat, du poste de vice-président et le remplacement du conseil économique et social en Conseil économique, social et environnementale, a été adopté après une deuxième lecture hier, mardi 18 septembre. C'était par une majorité des députés read more...

The Special Adviser to the President on New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD), Amb. Tunji Olagunju has said preparations for the second country review of Nigeria scheduled for 2013 has commenced.

Speaking yesterday in Abuja at a meeting of the National Council on African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), Olagunju said that the read more...

West African regional foreign ministers are scheduled to meet Monday to review recommendations by defense chiefs for deploying troops to Mali, where Islamist militants control the north.

Sonny Ugoh, communications director of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), says the ministers will also consider imposing stiff read more...

The National Council on African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) has held a Review Session to discuss the second APRM Country Review of Nigeria and to take stock of the Council’s role in ensuring good governance in both public and private sector of the economy.

The Chairman of the Council, Dr Bamanga Tukur, CON in his opening remarks stated read more...

Le Premier ministre Abdoul Mbaye a réaffirmé devant le panel de responsables du Mécanisme africain d’évaluation des pairs (MAEP), l’engagement du gouvernement pour la bonne gouvernance, a appris l'APS auprès des services de communication de la Primature

Abdoul Mbaye a reçu en audience, mardi, Moustapha Makideche, read more...

By Peter Opiyo

The East African Legislative Assembly wants more resources from partner states to help execute its mandate.

Assembly Speaker Margaret Zziwa said the current assembly is faced with financial challenges, which may affect its operations, especially its oversight role.

"We need to ask partner states read more...

Actuellement en charge par les Nations Unies d'une mission d'évaluation et de structuration des forces de sécurité de la Guinée, ex-chef des Bureaux de l'Onu en Afrique centrale, puis en Afrique de l'Ouest, ancien chef d'État-major des Armées et ancien ministre de l'Intérieur du Sénégal, read more...

« Jamais, dans l'histoire du monde, un Président n'a affirmé, de vive voix, qu'il allait tuer plus d'une quarantaine de personnes. Joignant l'acte à la parole, il en tue 17 et les enterre dans une fosse, malgré les tentatives de négociations et de clémence, venant de plusieurs chefs d'Etat », read more...

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By In2EastAfrica Reporter

Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) coming together under the East African Civil Society Organisations’ Forum (EACSOF) have agreed to engage the East African Community (EAC) through 5 thematic areas. This was reached at during the recently concluded Annual General meeting (AGM) that took place at Hilton Hotel in read more...

Midrand, Johannesburg – The two-day Conference of African Parliamentary Speakers, organized by the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) here in Midrand concluded its deliberations and issued its Communiqué today. 

On the issue of the revision of the PAP Protocol, the Speakers "affirmed their support for the review of the Protocol read more...

The Consultative meeting for the Clerks and Secretaries-General of African Parliaments was opened today at the Pan-African Parliament (PAP). The meeting was organized under the theme "Strengthening Linkages between the Pan-African Parliament and National Parliaments".

In his opening address, Hon. Bethel Nnaemeka Amadi, President of the read more...

The Government of Ethiopia and the African Development Bank signed a US$ 251-million loan agreement Friday for the "Promoting Basic Services" (PBS) Phase III Program at a ceremony held at the Ethiopian Ministry of Finance and Economic Development in Addis Ababa. H.E. Ahmed Shide, State Minister of Finance and Economic Development, and Mr. Lamin read more...

APRM In the News

Outcomes of the 17th APR Forum Summit
The 17th Summit of the Committee of Participating Heads of State and Government (APR Forum) was held in Addis Ababa on 14 July 2012. Notably, Ethiopian Prime Minister and Chair read more...

The chairman of Kenya’s National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) has called on the government to step up efforts to reduce religious, political and ethnic tensions in the run up to next year’s election.

Mzalendo Kibunja said the murder of a radical Muslim cleric Monday in Mombasa could increase tensions and plunge the country read more...

The death of Ethiopian President Meles Zenawi was announced this morning, following complications arising after a long illness. Yet for weeks now, rumours have been flying around the internet that Zenawi had died in an overseas hospital, and that this news was kept quiet whilst the fierce succession battle took place.

Whether true or read more...

La Constitution du Benin, la plus vieille et la plus stable d'Afrique de l‘Ouest, pourrait être victime de son propre succès. Alors qu'elle était célébrée pendant trois jours au cours de la semaine du 6 août 2012, et que l'un read more...

The Director of the Economic Development and NEPAD Division Economic Commission for Africa has said that officials and experts working on the implementation of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) owe the public clear explanations on what the initiative has achieved in the 10 years of its existence.

Addressing an expert read more...

THE Expert Group Meeting has called on the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) to accelerate engagement of the private sector, civil society and grassroots political representation to enhance implementation of the regional initiative.

A draft report concluding deliberations, at the weekend in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, highlighted read more...

By Peter Kayula,

There are those who said......'Let"s talk and make serious pronouncements" and those who have said........" Let us sit down and discuss...." and the few who are saying......"Time is up for dialogue....."

However,the demand by an African Good Governance Advocacy Group, for African governments to ratify the read more...

Accra, Aug. 17, GNA - Professor Emmanuel Nnadozie, Director of the Economic Development and NEPAD Division of ECA,  has said that officials and experts working on the implementation of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) owed the public clear explanations on what the initiative had achieved in the 10 years of its existence.

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Kigali — The Rwandan parliament recently passed a law authorising high-ranking security officials to monitor email and telephone conversations of individuals considered potential threats to the national security. Although the law is secretly rejected by most Rwandan citizens around the country, only opposition militants in exile dare to openly read more...

Even as Côte d’Ivoire gradually recovers from the bloody events of the 2010-2011 post-electoral crisis, massacres in the western part of the country and the frequent sound of gunfire in the economic capital, Abidjan, are signs of the long road ahead.

More than a year after Alassane Ouattara became president, heavily armed men are still read more...

Addis Ababa, 15 August 2012 (ECA) – The Expert Group Meeting that opened here yesterday ended today with call a on the NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency to accelerate the engagement of the private sector, civil society and grassroots political representation to enhance the implementation of the regional programme.

A draft report concluding read more...

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) will continue its diplomatic efforts to resolve the country’s security challenges in the restive north Kivu province, according to Information Minister Lambert Mende.

Mende said Kinshasa has been able to raise awareness about the need for a neutral international force to help defeat armed groups read more...

The deadline for Mali’s leaders to form a unity government is, once again, approaching, after Interim President Dioncounda Traore set a new cutoff date for this week.

Traore reappointed Prime Minister Cheick Modibo Diarra to head the transitional government on Sunday and confirmed Diarra had 72 hours to form a new government. 

One read more...

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is seriously concerned about delays in the selection of the new Somali Parliament, according to a statement issued by his spokesperson today.

"Recent acts of intimidation and violence which should not continue or be allowed to threaten the successful conclusion of Somalia's transition," the spokesperson read more...

The ruling Congolese Labour Party (PCT) of President Denis Sassou-Nguesso won a large majority in run-off legislative elections last weekend, with 89 of the 136 seats, final results showed.

The PCT, which has been in power since 1997, had taken 57 of the 69 seats that were won outright in the July 15 first round, with another 10 going read more...

The Women's Forum - the umbrella organization of all women's groups in Sierra Leone, and the Women's Solidarity Support Group (WSSG) - a coalition of women's organizations and individuals, have urged the National Electoral Commission (NEC) to revisit the amount proposed as nomination fees for candidates who plan to contest in the forthcoming elections read more...