Political parties vying for legislative seats in the elections to be held on Sunday have been campaigning for votes within the country. Sunday’s parliamentary vote will elect the 217-member assembly, and that will chose a new prime minister to lead the government to replace Tunisia’s caretaker administration. Presidential elections will be held in November. Tunisians […]
The new governments formed in the aftermath of the Arab Spring are facing the challenge of creating rights-respecting democracies, says Human Rights Watch in its “World Report 2013”, wondering whether these new Arab governments will produce a genuine democracy and fall back into dictatorships. In its 665-page report, HRW says “the creation of a rights-respecting […]
Speaker of the Pan-African Parliament (PAP), Roger Nkodo Dang (Cameroon), has denounced, in a letter to the Foreign Ministers of the African Union member countries, the biased and disinformation campaign carried out by 3rd Vice-deputy Speaker of PAP, Algerian Jamal Bouras, against Morocco. The serious flaws and errors made by the Algerian, who is serving […]
