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Namibians Flock to the Polls
Hundreds of thousand of Namibians, heeding President Hifikepunye Pohamba’s call to turn out in large numbers, are heading to polling centers nationwide to elect a president and 72 parliamentarians to run the affairs of this southwestern state for the...
Zimbabwe Hosts Meeting of South African Development Community Parliamentary Forum
Lawmakers from Southern Africa are meeting in Zimbabwe’s resort town of Victoria Falls for the 26th Plenary Assembly of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Parliamentary Forum amid calls to transform the forum into a regional legislature.
Pan-African Parliament Expresses Support for ECOWAS Decisions on Niger, Guinea
The first Vice President of the South Africa-based Pan African Parliament, Bethel Amadi, expressed to Nigerian President Umaru Yar’adua the support of the continental House to the decisions of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) regarding...
African Union Approves 17% Budget Increase
The African Union executive council has approved $164.2 million for the 2009 AU budget, which shows a 17.3 % increase over the 2008 budget, APA learned on Tuesday.
Election Observers Threatened with Death in Zimbabwe, Mauritian MP Alleges
A Mauritian Member of Parliament, Sunil Dwarkasing, who was a member of the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) observer mission to the recently held elections in Zimbabwe, said on Thursday that members of the mission were threatened with death if they did not...
