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Editorial UNSMIL noted the joint statement of the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the High Council of State regarding their discussions in Cairo yesterday. UNSMIL calls on both chambers to quickly reach a full and final agreement, including on the controversial issues, to finalize the necessary steps to bring the […]
Clive Makumbe in Zimbabwe Poor service delivery has always been considered a legacy of poor governance and lack of youth participation in Zimbabwe. However, 41 years into our independence, many local municipalities are still battling with service delivery backlogs. These backlogs have often been attributed to, for example, dysfunctional ward development committees, corruption amongst councillors, […]
Gweru – Hundreds of disgruntled residents from Mkoba high density suburb in the Midlands capital Gweru on Thursday morning besieged the local council offices to protest over poor service delivery. The Administration Hall in Mkoba 6 houses the district council offices which serve residents that cannot commute to the Town House in the Central Business […]
International Day of the girl is an opportunity for the global community to celebrate achievements that have been made towards gender equality and empowerment of the girl child. Girls are making headlines and contributing to the leadership discourse in spaces that were historically male dominated. The 2022 theme, Our Time Is Now, Our Rights Our […]
The Zimbabwean government, through the Ministry of ICTs, gazetted Statutory Instrument 95 of 2021 to bring into effect the TTMS. The TTMS was launched in May 2022 and is now being used by POTRAZ, the sector’s regulator. Introduction This report outlines deliberations of an engagement meeting among MISA Zimbabwe, The Media Alliance of Zimbabwe, the […]
Africa is sitting on a climate time-bomb. Across the continent, children and young people – including those not yet born – will suffer the financial, social and environmental costs of the climate crisis for decades, if not centuries to come. One of the paradoxes of the climate crisis is that those who are primarily responsible […]
(Juba, 08 September 2022) The Humanitarian Coordinator for South Sudan, Ms. Sara Beysolow Nyanti, is deeply concerned by the latest round of violence in Upper Nile State, and its consequences on civilians. Since mid-August, thousands of people have been displaced across many areas of Upper Nile, Jonglei, and Unity states following heavy fighting between armed […]
UN troop rotations in the peacekeeping mission in Mali (MINUSMA) resumed on Monday with a new approval mechanism one month after they were suspended by the ruling junta, which accused 49 Ivorian soldiers of entering the country without permission. The soldiers, who were described by the Government of Mali as “mercenaries,” were part of logistical […]
Legal Resource Foundation (LRF) Community Rights Action Grants The Community Rights (CommRights) project aims to improve the capacity of communitybased organizations (CBOs) to continue with citizen engagement work beyond the lifespan of the project. To this end, the LRF Community Rights program will award three Community Rights Action Grants per year to three community-based organizations […]
IMS (International Media Support) and Free Press Unlimited (FPU) have launched a programme to support the independent public interest media sector in the Middle East and North Africa as a complement to the two organisations’ existing engagements in the region Independent media and journalists in the Middle East and North Africa face significant systemic challenges […]
