At the opening ceremony of the second session of the National Transitional Council on 3 October, the President of the National Transitional Council, Colonel Malick Diaw, paid tribute to Colonel Dansa Kourouma of Guinea. This was for his firm instructions to all levels of the institutions that all situations concerning Mali should be dealt with […]
The second ordinary session of the National Transitional Council of Mali opened on 3 October 2022. On this occasion, the president of the Malian transitional legislative body, Colonel Malick Diaw, presented to the members of the Council a series of bills to be examined, including the 2023 finance bill. The agenda of the current ordinary […]
The President of the Pan African Parliament (PAP), H. E. Chief Fortune Zephaniah Charumbira, has called on the President-Elect of the Republic of Kenya, H. E. William Kipchirchir Samoei Arap Ruto, to keep the country together in peace and harmony even after a protracted election dispute as promised. He assured him of the full support […]
Members of the Parliamentary Network Africa (PNAfrica) team, joined other members of the Citizens’ Coalition to picket at the office of the Auditor General. PNAfrica is part of a number of civil society organizations and individuals who have come together to form a non-partisan coalition/movement which seeks to make use of the democratic processes of […]
This September, 85 young men and women selected from all walks of Benin will take over the law-making house to deliberate on issues of great concerns to the country. These youth will be looking into issues from gender, conditions of women, youth, economy and security, Master Abdou Fard Badarou Vice-president of the Youth Parliament, Benin […]
The President of the Pan African Parliament (PAP), H. E. Hon. Chief Fortune Charumbira, has challenged the media in Africa to be alive to its duties and to become partners in the transformation of the continent. He urged them to move beyond reporting on issues of what is wrong with the continent and to begin […]
A delegation of the leadership and secretariat of the African Parliamentary Press Network (APPN), has paid a working visit to the APPN Caucus in the mountain Kingdom of Lesotho in the Southern African region. The delegation is made up of Mr. Clement Akoloh, a member of the Steering Committee (SC) of the APPN Continental […]
The Parliamentary Network Africa (PNAfrica) has urged the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) to consider setting up a benchmark for Parliamentary Openness as a model framework to be adopted by African Parliaments towards an Open Parliament Agenda. This was one of the three recommendations made by the Executive Director of PNAfrica, Sammy Obeng, when he presented a […]
The African Parliamentary Press Network (APPN) extends its congratulatory message to the Pan-African Parliament for a successful election for the Sixth Parliament recently held in Midrand, South Africa. The APPN congratulates His Excellency Senator Chief Fortune Charumbira, on his election as the fifth PAP President, and his Vice-Presidents, Hon. Prof. Massouda Mohamed Laghdaf from Mauritania, […]
Parliamentary Network Africa (PNAfrica), under the auspices of the Africa Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Network (APMON) has completed the development of the maiden Africa Open Parliament Index (OPI), and is scheduled to be launched on 20th July, 2022, in Accra – Ghana. The Africa OPI is a joint effort with the APMON Working Group, which is […]