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Somalia’s Parliament Debates Federalism Revisions as 19 Lawmakers Are Suspended MOGADISHU — Somalia’s bicameral Parliament held a joint session Saturday to debate proposed amendments to the Provisional Constitution, zeroing in on federalism and power-sharing even as tensions flared over the process with the suspension of 19 lawmakers earlier in the day. The sitting — the seventh of the current parliamentary term and the 11th joint meeting of the Upper House and the House of the People — focused on Chapter Four of the draft…

This Saturday, July 18, the summit of the CPLP, the community of Portuguese-speaking countries, ended in Luanda. Angola took over the rotating presidency of this organization of nine member states, including Mozambique. The conflict in Cabo Delgado, in the far north of the country, where Total suspended its gas project after a jihadist attack in early April, was one of the summits, but no concrete…

This Tuesday, April 20, the national deputies are expected to look at a new bill that modifies and complements the law on Cenis' organization and function. as reported from Kinshasa, Patient LigodiAccording to Christophe Lutundula, its initiator, this law is called upon to help improve the legal framework governing the electoral…