Long-awaited local elections will offer Central Africans opportunity to expand political space

Local elections in the Central African Republic (CAR), which have been pending since 1988 and are slated for September, will deepen efforts to decentralize power and expand political space, the UN envoy for the country told the Security Council on Tuesday, encouraging the new Government to “deploy all possible efforts” to calm the political climate.

Related posts

Trump demands Iran’s ‘unconditional surrender’ – as it happened

No, South Africa’s HIV care is not ‘under control’. To pretend so recalls the dark days of Aids denialism | Yvette Raphael and Sibongile Tshabalala

Trump’s Yemen bombings killed nearly as many civilians as 23 previous years of US attacks, analysis shows