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Gabon desires to enhance the governance of its extractive industries

In Gabon, following the overview and compensation of the home debt, the nation now desires to enhance governance within the mining and oil sector. Libreville has determined to rejoin the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), a world benchmark for selling good governance of oil, fuel and mining assets. Downside, Gabon was suspended from the EITI seven years in the past. To reintroduce…

The members of the Riksdag must send money back to the state

Once is not common, in Kenya, parliamentarians have to return money to the state. Yesterday, the High Court of Justice asked the 416 elected representatives to reimburse ten million dollars. This amount corresponds to a housing allowance that they have received for more than two years. A financial support that they had voted in their own favor and caused a stir in the country. Each parliamentarian will have one year to repay more than $ 24,000. A significant sum given the Kenyan standard of living, but much more…

a scattered Transformers march

A march, known as a "parade march", was violently spread on Saturday 12 December by the police in Ndjamena. The opposition party had called on its activists to whistle morning and evening as they walked in pairs on the capital's streets to explain the vision of their formation. as reported from Ndjamena, Madjiasra NakoEarly…

Nigeria: entry to care in refugee camps (2/2)

Within the state of Benue, within the central japanese a part of the nation, virtually 50,000 internally displaced individuals are pressured into crowded camps across the metropolis of Makurdi. The variety of victims of recurring conflicts between shepherds and peasants is definitely a lot greater on this area, which concentrates the biggest variety of displaced individuals after the Borno state, within…

Algeria’s anger over Donald Trump’s announcement

"International maneuvers aimed toward destabilizing Algeria": Algerian Prime Minister Abdelaziz Djerad commented in these phrases on Saturday, December 12, on the normalization of relations between Morocco and Israel and the US recognition of sovereignty. Moroccan on the territory of Western Sahara. The outgoing US President Donald Trump introduced Thursday evening.…

Ex-President Zambi still does not stand trial after 28 months in prison

Was former President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi sentenced to life? It is this question that his relatives have been asking themselves since Friday, December 11, after the very attentive resignation of the Comorian Minister of Justice. Accused especially of embezzlement of public funds in a case worth more than 800 million euros, the former president of the Comoros has been detained in his home turned into an…