PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has requested the United Nations Development Programme to continue offering financial and technical support for the establishment and strengthening of the new local government system in the merged tribal districts of the province.
ISLAMABAD: A scrutiny committee of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday met to take up hearings of foreign funding cases against the Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) but adjourned proceedings without any progress.
Both parties were told that information from banks was awaited henceforth it was not possible to move forward and the committee will meet again after relevant information is received.
C’est le colonel-major à la retraite Bah N’Daw est depuis mardi le nouveau ministre de la Défense et des Anciens combattants. Il a remplacé à ce poste Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga qui a présenté sa démission. La nouvelle est tombée tard dans la nuit de mardi. Ce réaménagement de l’équipe gouvernementale dirigée par le Premier ministre Moussa Mara intervient quelques jours après le revers subi par nos forces armées à Kidal face aux mouvements armés irrédentistes et djihadistes.
La situation sanitaire actuelle a installé une conjoncture qui rend de plus en plus difficile une organisation sereine et dans les temps des scrutins prévus l’an prochain. En effet, en cas de poursuite de la pandémie jusqu’à 2021, les grands meetings resteront interdits et les Marocains, durement éprouvés par la crise économique, seront moins sensibles aux programmes des partis politiques.
Ecofin Agency) - The Algerian Parliament has adopted a draft relating to the revision of the Constitution. On Saturday, September 12, the Council of the Nation, which is the upper house of Parliament, gave its approval for constitutional reform; a few days after the National People's Assembly (the lower house of Parliament) gave its green light.
MOGADISHU (Somaliguardian) – Former Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire announced his presidential bid for Somalia elections in 2020, 50 days after he was ousted by parliament in a no-confidence vote following a long-standing dispute with the incumbent President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo.
TRIPOLI, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- UN-backed Prime Minister of Libya Fayez Serraj Friday announced cease-fire and ending of all hostilities in Libya, calling for presidential and parliamentary elections.
Dans la nuit de mardi à mercredi, le président malien Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta a annoncé sa démission, expliquant n'avoir pas d'autre choix que de se soumettre à la volonté de son armée en révolte pour éviter que du sang ne soit versé.
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta dissolves national assembly amid EU concerns that mutiny could destabilise whole region.
BEIRUT: Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab announced the resignation of his government Monday, almost one week after the devastating blast that tore through the capital, and as political and popular pressure mounted.
“I announce the resignation of my government ... May God protect Lebanon,” Diab said during a televised address to the Lebanese.
“The system of corruption is greater than the state,” Diab said, adding that "one of the examples of corruption exploded at the Beirut Port.”
Nine months before the next presidential election in Iran, concerns over the coronavirus pandemic has pushed competition over the post of president of the Islamic Republic to backstage.
Unofficial campaigning for presidential election in Iran usually starts as early as the inauguration of the second term of the incumbent President. Iranian media have lined up possible candidates several times before the pandemic overshadowed everything including the presidential race.
IEC sets November 10 as election date.
Con mascarillas como medida de sanitaria para evitar la propagación del coronavirus, el presidente sirio Bashar al-Ásad y el ministro de Asuntos Exteriores, Walid Muallem, emitieron sus votos este domingo 19 de julio, en el marco de los comicios parlamentarios que habían sido pospuestos dos veces debido a la pandemia.
Hay 1.656 candidatos en la puja por los 250 escaños del Parlamento de Siria. Unidad Nacional, la coalición política en la que está incluida el partido gobernante, partió como favorita para obtener la mayoría de las curules.
GILGIT: An All Parties Conference (APC) was held in the region under the chair of Chief Election Commissioner on Thursday to finalise the date of local bodies’ elections.
According to details, members from Pakistan Tehreek-e- Insaf (PTI), Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) among others were all present in the APC. Elections had been scheduled to kick off from August 18 in the region of Gilgit-Baltistan but a new date of October 28 was deliberated upon in the session.
The return to normality and the end of confinement in Morocco have created the perfect scenario for the resurgence of political debate. Thus, the Moroccan Minister of the Interior, Abdelouafi Laftit, assured the political parties that the elections of 2021 "will not be postponed", despite the economic repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Moroccan daily L'Opinion.
