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No end in sight to DRC post-election crisis |
Is this the calm before the storm?
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Swaziland still needs SA bailout |
Kingdom could be threat to SADC peace and security
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New era for democracy in Africa |
African Charter will finally come into force
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Zimbabwe's toothless bulldog |
The role of Zimbabwe’s Joint Monitoring and Implementation Committee (Jomic) is increasingly coming in for criticism due to its failure to ensure that the three parties in the Inclusive Government (IG) fully implement the power-sharing pact. Political analysts and civic activists have dismissed the 12-member committee as a ‘toothless bulldog’ because of its inability to deal with the numerous violations of the Global Political Agreement (GPA). However, the committee has dismissed these criticisms saying there is a misconception about its mandate and the power at its disposal. |
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Will the real pharaoh please stand up |
Events in Egypt show the paralysing complexities surrounding the process of transition to democracy in post-revolution societies in the Arab world. Only in Tunisia, the country that ushered in this huge wave of change in North Africa, has the transition to democracy been relatively smooth, albeit accompanied by some challenges. It’s a pity, therefore, that events in Tunisia were not so instructive to the rest of the Arab world in informing the way of plausible transition. |
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Projecto de Revisão Constitucional da FRELIMO |
Logo após conquistar a maioria qualificada nas eleições gerais de 2009, quando arrecadou 192 assentos dos 250 lugares do parlamento moçambicano, a FRELIMO, partido no poder em Moçambique desde a independência do país em 1975, começou a ventilar a intenção de rever a constituição, criando um misto de expectativa e apreensão generalizada no país. |
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Electoral Commissions Forum of SADC Countries (ECF-SADC) |
The Electoral Commissions Forum of the Southern African Development Community (ECF SADC) is an independent organisation in which each country of the SADC region is represented by its electoral management body. The ECF SADC members include the electoral management bodies (EMBs) of all 15 SADC countries, except Madagascar which is yet to join. ECF SADC was established July 1998 and is registered in Botswana as a non-profit organisation. |
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Capacity Building Project for the National Independent Electoral Commission of the Democratic Republic of Congo |
Elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are a priority for the Electoral Commissions Forum of the Southern African Development Community (ECF SADC) because the upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections are only the second democratic elections since the signing of the Sun City accords in 2002. Given the post-conflict challenges facing the DRC at the time, without the assistance of the international community, the first democratic elections would have unsuccessfully organised. |
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African Women Millennium Initiative in Zambia (AWOMIZ) |
African Women Millennium Initiative in Zambia (AWOMIZ) is a legally recognised, non-governmental organisation, registered under the Society’s Act Cap 119 with registration number ORS/102/35/3520. The organisation was launched on 13 July 2007 in Lusaka, Zambia, during the Regional Social Mobilisation Conference. The thematic areas of the organisation include human rights, governance, reproductive health/HIV and economic empowerment. |
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Strengthening CSOs and Individual Human Rights Defenders in Zambia |
The three phase approach to human rights work taken by the African Women Millennium Initiative in Zambia (AWOMIZ) involves, first, engaging in regional, and international, human rights systems by submitting relevant periodic reports, and attending sessions. The second phase involves lobbying the Zambian government to ratify relevant human rights instruments and pushing for the implementation of these instruments. |
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