The Daily IIJ

President Mwai Kibaki on Friday launched a key website making Kenya the first country in sub saharan Africa to offer loads of government data to its citizens Citizens can now access data and participate in constitutional implementation process as well as hold the government accountable, President Kibaki said. The government has released several large datasets, [...]

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MANILA, Philippines – A niece of Maguindanao Mayor Esmael Mangudadatu, whose mother was one of 58 persons killed in the November 23, 2009 Ampatuan massacre in Maguindanao province, says the alleged killers, led by key members of the Ampatuan clan, should pay her P3 billion for her loss. Ayesha Vanessa Hajar Andamen, who said she [...]

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MANILA, Philippines—After being a no-show at last week’s trial, Lakmodin Saliao, the Ampatuans’ helper of more than two decades, positively identified his former masters as the brains in the 2009 mass murder of 58 people in Maguindanao.

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By Mamadou Edrisa Njie The Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) of The Gambia, Mr. Mustapha L. Carayol has told a press conference that for his team to register Gambian President Yahya AJJ Jammeh and his family at state house in Banjul is tradition for the commission. He adds: “this is a tradition that [...]

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Of late, elections in Africa have been plagued by violence before, during and after the conduct of the polls, a glaring case is the Nigerian post-presidential elections violence, the latest on the continent, for which at least 500 people are reported to have died, thousands injured and others displaced. The Voice Newspaper’s News Editor examines [...]

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Over the last six months, the human rights situation in the East and the Horn of Africa has continued to be closely linked to the conduct of national elections, with journalists particularly at the receiving end. In an update on the human rights situation in the region during the Forum on the Participation of Non-Governmental [...]

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A press release issued yesterday by the Office of the Press Secretary to United States President disclosed that Mr. Barack Obama had called current Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara from the White House to congratulate him on assumption of office. President Obama, according to the statement, offered support for President Ouattara’s “efforts to unite Cote d’Ivoire, [...]

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For the past couple of weeks almost all Nigerian citizens have been looking forward to the April 2011 elections. It all started with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), demanding a huge sum of money from the federal government, then the drama of the electoral body chairman accusing the lawmakers of hindering the execution of [...]

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Upon successful completion of the voter registration exercise, the Presidential elections will be held on 24th November 2011 to be followed by the National Assembly Elections in the first quarter of 2012 and the Local Government Elections a year later, in the first quarter of 2013 respectively, Alhaji Musutapha Carayol Chairman of the Independent Electoral [...]

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Visage tuméfié, lèvre supérieure fendue, blessures aux mains : c’est l’image que présentait ce jeudi 24 mars Séïdou Choubadé, journaliste parlementaire du quotidien Le Nokoué à la suite « d’une bastonnade policière » à Cotonou.

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