Politics

Algeria was voted yesterday in a parliamentary election overshadowed by a crackdown on a long-running protest movement that has campaigned for a mass boycott.

Pro-government parties have urged a big turnout for the ‘crucial vote’ which they hope will restore stability after two years of turmoil since the forced resignation of veteran President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.

The protest movement, which had held weekly demonstrations for reform until they were effectively banned last month, has denounced the election, describing it as a ‘sham’ that betrays the hopes of the hundreds of thousands of Algerians whose protests forced Bouteflika from power.

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The family of late Chief MKO Abiola, yesterday, lamented that the Federal Government was yet to fulfill the promises made to the family.

A representative of the family made this disclosure in an interview with journalists as Nigeria celebrated its democracy day.

Rahaman Abiola, who serves as the Secretary of the family, made this known when a delegation of the Ogun State Government, led by the Deputy Governor, Mrs Noimot Salako-Oyedele, visited the Abeokuta family house of Abiola to celebrate the June 12 democracy day.

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Henri Marie Dondra has been named prime minister of the Central African Republic (CAR), the country’s presidency has confirmed.

The appointment of the former finance minister on Friday came a day after former Prime Minister Firmin Ngrebada announced his resignation and that of his government following legislative elections.

A former chief of staff to President Faustin-Archange Touadera, Ngrebada had been in post since early 2019 when he helped craft a February 2019 peace deal signed with rebel groups in Sudan that now appears on the verge of collapse.

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Nigeria’s former Senate President, Bukola Saraki has asserted that democracy is continuously being undermined and endangered in Nigeria.

He said the insecurity, poverty, and other socio-economic challenges facing the country have continued ‘to make what should be a representative government look strange to the people.’

According to him, 22 years after the country embraced democratic governance, the system has not given birth to good governance.

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As Nigeria marks Democracy Day on June 12, 2021, the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, Bola Tinubu, has urged Nigerians to stand for democracy.

Tinubu made the call in a congratulatory message to the nation on Friday, adding that democratic good governance offers solutions to national challenges.

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He urged Nigerians to stand for democracy despite the challenges they were going through.

‘Democratic good governance offers the only reasonable solution to the challenges confronting Nigeria’.

‘Thus, we must stand for democracy today. We must stand for it, even more, tomorrow,’ he