By Shout Africa.com Correspondent Hassan Abbas, Dar es Salaam – The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) Tanzania Secretariat will on 23rd October, brief Zanzibar House of Representatives on the findings of an updated governance report which was released in September this year. Speaking in Dar es Salaam today the Executive Secretary of APRM Tanzania, Rehema Twalib said the seminar with House Reps will be preceded by one with Permanent Secretaries of various Ministries in the Isles on 18th October. “The report has contained views of the common citizens and experts from both sides of the Union. It is now high time to brief... Continue Reading
By Shout-Africa Gambia Correspondent – Incumbent President Yahya Jammeh has his chances of re-election for a fourth term in office boosted further after efforts by seven Gambian opposition parties to agree a single candidate to stand against him ended without any outcome. Leaders from the fragmented opposition UDP, PDOIS, NRP, NADD, GMC, PPP and GPDP held weeks of talks, between September and October this year, on fielding a single candidate against Jammeh, but the talks foundered with no agreement on who should put up the candidate. A press release issued and signed by leaders of the seven parties, among others,... Continue Reading
Shout-Africa.com , Report from Liberia – News monitored from Liberia indicates that The National Elections Commission, the body overseeing the process maintains that it is forging ahead with the declaration of results declaring Saturday that it is simply too late for any of the political actors to disengage from the process. The Commission will announced the final results of the poll to the public on October 26, 2011. James Fromayan, the NEC chairman told a news conference on Saturday at the Commission’s Headquarters, that it was too late for the parties to disengage from a process that has been declared... Continue Reading
Tamba Jean-Matthew III -14 October 2011 Accroding to theDaily Nations (On the Web) Presented by Shout-Africa.com/Liberia Coordinator- Liberia Election Compilation (LEIPC 2011). Reports from the Liberian capital suggest that Liberians defied all odds, including momentary downpour and sometimes long distances, and turned out in mass to cast their votes in Tuesday, 11 October, 2011 presidential and general elections. The elections were the first democratic exercise exclusively conducted by Liberians since the end of the civil conflict in 2003.The polls followed nearly three months of vigorous, but generally peaceful campaigns throughout the country by various Presidential candidates, including incumbent President Ellen... Continue Reading
Presented by Shout-Africa.com/Liberia Coordinator – Following the end of an outstanding peaceful and violence free elections, most of the newspapers this morning, carry stories containing unofficial preliminary results gathered across the country and the prediction of a possible run-off. The Analyst this morning is asking the question, UP Leads, CDC Trails, Where Will Vital PYJ Stand In Imminent Run-off? Following over a month of campaign across the country b y political contestants and parties, the electorates on Tuesday walked to the polls to register their verdicts. Unofficial reports have been coming in, principally from journalist and media organizations that covered... Continue Reading
