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‘VP Chiwenga defies any available Covid-19 science’
SCORES of civil society organisations (CSOs) have called on the government to reverse Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga’s indefinite suspension of by-elections imposed to ostensibly prevent the spread of Covid-19. Chiwenga, who doubles as Health and Child Care minister, said the holding of by-elections to fill parliamentary and local government vacancies created by the mass recall of legislators and councillors by the…
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Africa & World
Ghanaian President seeks re-election
ACCRA. — Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo submitted his nomination forms to the Electoral Commission (EC) yesterday to seek re-election in the December polls. If cleared, Akufo-Addo would be leading the ruling New Patriotic Party as a presidential candidate for the fourth time since 2008. “The Ghanaian people expect that the election in December will be conducted in peace,…
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Courts and Law
By-elections in doubt
This comes as the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has set December 5 as a possible date for local authorities and national assembly by elections. Parliamentary and Legal Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi said it’s not possible to have by elections this year. He said he did not know where ZEC got the December 5 dates from because the President is the one…
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