Two opposition Parliamentarians from the opposition party PUR, were on Thursday sent to prison by a judge in Dakar, Senegal, Senegal’s leading online news site Seneweb reports. The MPs; Massata Samb and Mamadou Niang are members of the opposition coalition Yewwi Askan Wii. They are prosecuted for the assault of their […]
Politics
NCCE urges political parties to promote youth participation in politics
𝙉𝘾𝘾𝙀 𝙍𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙋𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙋𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙚 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙝 𝙋𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙞𝙣 𝙋𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙨. As political parties gear for their biennial congresses and look to the 2023 Local Government Elections, The NCCE today convenes National Dialogue with Political Parties’ National Executive Committees on the Increased Inclusion of Young People in Political Party Leadership Positions. […]
Senegal: Bokk Gis Gis leader Pape Diop resigns from his Parliamentary role
The leader of Bokk Gis Gis Pape Diop has resigned from his Parliamentary role effective Friday, 4th November 2022, L’Observateur newspaper reports. Diop’s decision followed the earlier resignation of Mrs. Sokhna Dieng Mbacké, another Member of Parliament who was part of President Macky Sall’s APR party and Benno Bokk Yaakaar […]
A Citizen without Political Education is either a Potential Victim or Criminal or BOTH!
It was Capt. Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso who once said a soldier without political education is a virtual criminal. As a military leader, Sankara taught his fellow soldiers to realize that they are first and foremost citizens who have rights and duties. He told them as soldiers they are […]