By Katongole Kiwanuka – The heat of presidential elections is up in Uganda after several of them even failed to pick updated draft national voters’ registers from the National Electoral Commission. On Wednesday the electoral body, contested by mainly the opposition handed over the registers to members of political parties taking part in the presidential campaign. Of the seven presidential candidates, only three representatives from the ruling National Resistance Movement, Democratic Party and the People’s Progressive Party turned up. The electronic register which is stored on a DVD format, contains all the personal details of 13, 924,619 voters in all... Continue Reading
By Misheck Rusere – A Zimbabwean constitutional civic organization, National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) has begun extensive campaigns on its take charge initiative under which the organization says the people of Zimbabwe should vote no in the impending referendum scheduled for March 2011. Addressing members of the public at the three different meetings, in Zaka and Gutu, the NCA leader Dr Lovemore Madhuku said the Constitution Select Committee (COPAC) had completely failed to lead the constitutional reform process and hence the decision by his organization to actively campaign against the YES vote. “Since our formation in 1997, we clearly outlined the... Continue Reading
Promise Zalakata Kamanga – Malawi’s President Bingu wa Mutharika yesterday declared that he had no problems with his young brother Peter Mutharika’s 2014 presidential bid. The president’s young brother has been tipped as a possible successor of the ruling DPP and currently the party has been using traditional chiefs through state owned Malawi Broadcasting Corporation to campaign for him. “Peter Mutharika is a Malawian. As a Malawian he is free to contest for any position in this country. Is it a crime to be a President’s brother?” questioned the President. Mutharika was speaking to journalists in Malawi’s capital Lilongwe on... Continue Reading
By: Collins Jette -Monrovia-Liberia – President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has given reasons for disbanding her entire cabinet, granting them compulsory leave for reflection and assessment of their performances and what they hope to achieve in the final leg of her administration The Liberian president said her team is going into the final leg of her administration and it was important to make a sober reflection. She explained. “We are going into the final leg. We have set certain goals; we want to start off in this dry season when we can get most of our work done with as much... Continue Reading
By: Augustine N. Myers – Amidst calls from two major opposition Political Parties in Liberia for President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf to resign or go on an administrative leave, the Liberian leader has strongly reacted, taking exception to the calls made by the Liberty Party (LP) of Former President Pro Temporal at the Liberian Senate, Legal Counsellor Charles Walker Brumskine, and the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) of former World Best Footballer, George Mannah Weah. This follows the mass dismissal of the entire Liberian Cabinet referred to as “Administrative Leave”, by President Sirleaf in which both the Liberty Party (LP) and Congress... Continue Reading
