Nigeria’s Constitution Review Makes Women’s Inclusion a Priority

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https://gdb.voanews.com/eafe758e-8a85-4df0-8831-a3b63ffca353_w800_h450.jpgAbu­ja, Nige­ria — Nige­ri­a’s con­sti­tu­tion is get­ting a revamp, and this time a com­mit­tee tasked with the respon­si­bil­i­ty says wom­en’s inclu­sion in polit­i­cal offices is a pri­or­i­ty. Women hold a tiny frac­tion of the seats in Nigeria’s Nation­al Assem­bly. Three of the 109 sen­a­tors and 15 of the 360 mem­bers in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives are…

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MAYOR ON THE FRONT LINE: Democracy in Crisis — #BBCAfricaEye #IWD2024 #Shorts

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🎥 Watch the doc­u­men­tary “May­or on the Front Line: Democ­ra­cy in Cri­sis” from #BBCAfrica­Eye here: https://youtu.be/8_fwvmKNCNo Sub­scribe: http://bit.ly/subscribetoafrica Web­site: https://www.bbc.com/africa Face­book: https://www.facebook.com/bbcnewsafrica/ Twit­ter: https://www.twitter.com/bbcafrica/ Insta­gram: https://www.instagram.com/bbcafrica/

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Francis Ngannou is ‘like a king’ in Cameroon — BBC Africa

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The much-antic­i­­pat­ed box­ing match between MMA super­star Fran­cis Ngan­nou and for­mer world heavy­weight cham­pi­on Antho­ny Joshua, already attract­ing a surge in online search traf­fic. Ahead of the clash, we vis­it­ed Ngannou’s home­town of Batié in Cameroon to find out more about this “cham­pi­on of cham­pi­ons”, dis­cov­er­ing that he used to be a sand min­er and…

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What Europe wants from Biden’s State of the Union

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LONDON — For­eign pol­i­cy nev­er wins elec­tions, as the old polit­i­cal max­im goes. So eight months out from polling day in Amer­i­ca, it’s hard­ly sur­pris­ing that domes­tic reac­tion to Thursday’s State of the Union speech will be dom­i­nat­ed by argu­ments over the econ­o­my, drug prices and the frailty of U.S. Pres­i­dent Joe Biden, 82 this November.…

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US says no troops to Haiti as country reels from explosion of gang violence

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https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/929a576aa67bf2b34eb45ebfab4f44245205e29f/0_31_7490_4497/master/7490.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=0d5062cf1f85a31334b4a7ab80621704Wash­ing­ton says no despite ‘fran­tic’ talks between diplo­mats, as bod­ies lie in street and army bat­tles gun-tot­ing gang mem­bers What led to the Haiti jail­break – and can democ­ra­cy be restored? The Unit­ed States has said it will not send troops to Haiti after a stun­ning erup­tion of gang vio­lence seem­ing­ly designed to bring down…

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Macron: The grand master of grandstanding

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Ivo Daalder, for­mer U.S. ambas­sador to NATO, is CEO of the Chica­go Coun­cil on Glob­al Affairs and host of the week­ly pod­cast “World Review with Ivo Daalder.” There he goes again, anoth­er head­­­line-grab­bing state­ment from French Pres­i­dent Emmanuel Macron. “Noth­ing should be ruled out,” he said last week , respond­ing to a ques­tion about whether…

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Senegal Constitutional Council Finds Election Delay Unlawful

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https://gdb.voanews.com/7ba2b9d7-2166–40b2-b192-4e66743c56d1_cx0_cy10_cw0_w800_h450.jpgDAKAR, SENEGAL — Sene­gal’s Con­sti­tu­tion­al Coun­cil on Thurs­day ruled that par­lia­men­t’s unprece­dent­ed post­pone­ment of the Feb­ru­ary 25 pres­i­den­tial vote was not in line with the con­sti­tu­tion, pitch­ing the coun­try into a new phase of elec­toral uncer­tain­ty.  Oppo­si­tion pres­i­den­tial can­di­dates and law­mak­ers last week filed sev­er­al legal chal­lenges to the bill that delayed the vote to December…

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