Ugandan lawmakers voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to remove presidential age limits, paving the way for President Yoweri Museveni to serve a sixth term in office. The highly controversial bill passed with 315 votes for, 62 against and two abstentions, after three days of chaotic debates in which some opposition MPs were suspended, while others walked out. […]
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EU Launches Disciplinary Action Against Polish Judicial Laws
The executive arm of the European Union has launched unprecedented disciplinary proceedings against Poland, contending that Warsaw’s controversial judicial reforms undercut the independence of Polish courts. European Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans of the Netherlands told reporters in Brussels that 13 laws adopted by Poland in the past two years created a situation in which […]
Parliamentary Debate on Uganda Presidential Term Limit Turns Raucous
From repubhub Debate on age limits and term length for the president of Uganda came to a sudden halt Tuesday when a lawmaker reported seeing soldiers on the premises. The allegation led to a scuffle between legislators and parliamentary police. The legislature was already on edge because of the proposals being discussed. Parliament is debating […]
Bitter Honduras election crisis threatens stability
Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez called on the opposition Tuesday to hold talks with his government, after he was declared the winner of a bitterly disputed election. But the opposition candidate, Salvador Nasralla, rejected dialogue — unless it was to confirm that he, and not Hernandez, won the November 26 poll. A key figure in […]
Day of Protest as DR Congo Opposition Seeks to Unseat Kabila
Tuesday the opposition vowed to pursue its campaign to unseat President Joseph Kabila over long-delayed polls
Cambodian Opposition Facing Sustained Harassment Campaign
Former members of the opposition described barrages of threatening phone calls, court summonses and visits by police
Lawmakers Start Peru Impeachment Proceedings Against President
Lawmakers in Peru have initiated impeachment proceedings against President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski over alleged corruption. Opposition lawmakers filed the motion against the president Friday, saying he was morally unfit to lead the country after he resisted calls to resign over the alleged corruption. Twenty-seven of 130 members of Peru’s Congress approved launching the process to […]
Honduras opposition blocks roads in post-election protest
Supporters of Honduras’s opposition blocked roads in towns and cities on Friday to demand their candidate Salvador Nasralla be declared the winner of a presidential election held nearly three weeks ago. It was the latest protest to highlight the uncertainty and allegations of fraud that have clouded the outcome of the November 26 election. Both […]
Turkey Opposition Leader Faces Prosecution as Crackdown Intensifies
Turkish prosecutors have taken another step toward the prosecution and possible jailing of the country’s main opposition leader. On Thursday, Ankara prosecutors announced they had prepared their case against Kemal Kilicdaroglu, head of the Republican People’s Party, or CHP, and called for the lifting of his parliamentary immunity. The CHP responded by criticizing the ruling […]
Why Sudanese newspapers go online for freedom from censors
Seated in his Khartoum office overlooking the Blue Nile, Sudanese journalist Adil al-Baz no longer fears a crackdown by security agents over his articles since he launched an online newspaper. “We are free to publish what we want on our online newspaper,” Baz, a former print newspaper editor, told AFP at the office of Al-Ahdath, […]