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The Nigeria Governors' Forum (NGF) has inaugurated a Steering Committee to appraise the performance of its members across the country.

The seminar was organised by the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) with funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

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In an improvised office daubed with revolutionary slogans, part of an appropriated complex in Tripoli that once housed Moammar Gaddafi’s cronies, rebel commander Muhammad Zintani contemplated his future.

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A controversial constitutional amendment, envisaging increase of number of MPs from current 150 to 190 in the next Parliament, has been initiated this week.

According to the poll carried out by Caucasus Resource Research Centers (CRRC) for the U.S. National Democratic Institute (NDI) in September, 60% of respondents were against of increasing number of seats in the Parliament with only 8% responding positively.

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La liste définitive des organisations nationales et internationales accréditées pour superviser les élections législatives du 25 novembre vient d'être arrêtée. Elle comprend au total 16 instances, qui vont mandater environ 4000 observateurs, a indiqué le Conseil national des droits de l'Homme (CNDH) sur son site Internet.

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton declared Monday that the Obama administration would work with ascendant Islamist parties of the Muslim world, answering one of the central U.S. policy questions resulting from the Arab Spring.

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Post-dictatorship Tunisia’s recent election for assembly benefitted women and showed the power of technology. With Tunisia’s ballot boxes closed but not stuffed, the real political winners in the country’s first free election are women.

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On October 24th, Tunisian voters waited for up to six hours for the chance to exercise their right to vote and elect a new constituent assembly.

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Four Political Parties: All Peoples’ Congress (APC), Sierra Leone Peoples’ Party (SLPP), People’s Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC) and the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), yesterday signed an open and safe elections pledge in Freetown.

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Former US ambassador to the United Nations Bill Richardson who is in the country at the invitation of the NGO National Democratic Institute to discuss plans for preventing election-related violence said Congo is capable of staging free and fair election, according to Reuters.