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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 municipal race before general elections

Postponed several times, local elections for elected councilors will take place today across Niger. They have not taken place since 2004 and the main effort is the control of the municipalities, especially the big cities such as Niamey, Zinder and Maradi. Members are elected for a five-year period. These elections also make it possible for political parties to know their weight before the major…

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…