By Correspondent Chinyere Ogbonna– As Nigerians go to polls today for the parliamentary election, there has bomb scare in parts of the northern part of the country. Yesterday the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC in Suleja, a suburb of the Federal Capital Territory was bombed by unidentified bombers. According to reports, many regular and ad-hoc staff of INEC including members of the National Youth Service Corps who make up the majority of the ad-hoc staff lost their lives in the bomb explosion. The number of people who died in the incident is not clear yet as there... Continue Reading
By Gambia Correspondent – As the race for the 2011 presidential election draws near, the leader of the opposition United Democratic Party, Lawyer Ousainou Darboe, has asserted that the forthcoming elections will be a defining moment for the future of The Gambia. “These coming elections will be very defining for the future of this country, because people are talking of having a monarch in this country and, if they do not exercise their right to vote and vote rightly, then they will succeed in establishing a monarchy in this country,” Darboe said in an interview with this reporter yesterday. According... Continue Reading
By Jean-Paul Pougala – Gaddafi’s Libya is offering to all of Africa’s first true revolution of modern times: to ensure universal coverage of the continent for telephony, television, broadcasting and many other applications such as telemedicine and teaching distance, for the first time a connection becomes available at low cost across the continent, even in rural areas through the system via radio bridge WMAX. The story begins in 1992 when 45 African countries formed a company to have a RASCOM African satellite and bring down communication costs on the continent. A- THE REAL REASONS FOR THE WAR IN LIBYA 1- The first African... Continue Reading
By Own Correspondent, Dodoma – By all means and depictions, this may be called a wrong footing for the constitutional review in Tanzania, a second nation within the East African Community to embark into a major project to enact a new constitution. Kenya’s recently enacted constitution was similarly chaotic. The chaotic scenes marred both initial hearings of a proposed draft Bill for Constitutional Review which were held in Dar es Salaam and Dodoma. Shout-Africa.com witnessed hundreds of people in Dodoma, the political capital of Tanzania stranded outside the Parliamentary Building as the Msekwa Hall where the hearings were held was full... Continue Reading
By Own Correspondent with support from New Dawn Newspaper-Liberia – The National Elections Commission (NEC) Tuesday launched a 150-day civic and voters’ awareness campaign ahead of the 2011 Constitutional Referendum and general polls. NEC’s Chairman James Fromayan, 61, told journalists here Tuesday that the referendum will allow Liberians to cast their ballots for four strategic changes in the Constitution.The Chairman named the four provisions of the constitution, which need amendment as article 52(C) which proposes that the residency requirement for the presidency be reduced from ten years to five years prior to elections; and to amend article 83(A) which proposes... Continue Reading
