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-- President's Meter report by NAYMOTE reveals NAYMOTE Partners for Democratic Development, a civil society group that meticulously follows President George Weah’s promises to the country since taking the helm of the nation in 2018, has graded the President’s fulfillment of the promises in three years with a score of 8%. According to Naymote Partners…

Naymote Grades President Weah 8% Of Promises Made Within Three Years Naymote Grades President Weah 8% Of Promises Made Within Three Years Liberian Leader, President George Manneh Weah Liberia’s prime democratic advancement and a think tank institution, the Naymote Partners for Democratic Development is pleased to release its 3-year monitoring report on President George Weah’s performance against promises made during and after the 2017 elections. The report covers the period January 201...

CDD boss, Professor H Kwasi Prempeh Executive Director of the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Professor H Kwasi Prempeh has said that Ghana will require a representative of an independent third party such as an accredited domestic election observer (or two) also witness the Electoral Commission (EC) sign pink sheets and declaration of results at the collation center or/and, at the minimum, be given a copy of the certified declaration. This, he said, should be the next area ...

Supporting greater socio-economic resilience in the Sea of Azov region Format In 2014, the Azov Sea Region (covering the Kherson, Donestsk, and Zaporizhzhia oblasts in Eastern Ukraine) fell victim to political tensions with Russia on the Crimean peninsula and armed conflict in the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. The Sea of Azov is bounded in the north-west by Ukraine, in the east by Russia and in the south by the Kerch Peninsula of Crimea and the Taman Peninsula. The two peninsulas are separated b...

CSOs condemn chaos in Parliament January 8, 2021 Some armed Military and police officers at Parliament to restore calm. Fourteen Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have spoken against the violent activities, security interferences and disorder which occurred during the elections and inauguration of the eighth parliament in Accra yesterday. In a joint statement issued and copied to the Ghanaian Times yesterday, they said, such occurrences and disturbances at the floor of parliament was ...

Members of the House of Representatives of the 54th Legislature The Institute for Research and Democratic Development (IREDD) has released the score card of Representatives and Senators for the 3rd session of the 54th Legislature with some lawmakers scoring high marks while others making zero. The Legislative Monitoring Report is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through the National Democratic Institute (NDI). The latest report card under the theme, “Pr...

Sanction Carlos Ahenkorah now for his wayward behaviour – CDD-Ghana to Parliament LISTEN 2 The Executive Directive of the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Prof. Henry Kwasi Prempeh wants the ballot paper snatcher in Ghana’s parliament to face immediate sanctions. He said the dishonourable act by the Member of Parliament(MP) would likely have succeeded in throwing the transition into a crisis. “The Privileges Committee of Parliament must sit on this matter without delay a...

Graphic Online BY: Daily Graphic 705 Fourteen civil society organisations (CSOs) in Election Programming have called on political leaders to commit to the spirit of compromise and accommodation to preserve the country’s democratic gains. They said the scenes in Parliament that characterised the sacred and solemn process of electing a Speaker and the swearing in of Members of Parliament (MPs) which played out before the international community betrayed the political leaders’ proclamations a...

Ghana-Press-Review January 08, 2021 to 11:25 348 APA – Accra (Ghana) The programmes that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo plan to execute over the next four years and the demand that the perpetrators of the chaos that characterised the election of the Speaker for the 8th Parliament of the 4th Republic must be brought to book are some of the trending stories in the Ghanaian press on Friday....

A Joint Statement on the Decisions of Some European Countries Threatening the Principle of Non-refoulement of Refugees Changes to asylum policies in several European countries may pave the way for a violation of the principle of non-refoulement and the First Protocol of the European Convention on Human Rights Since the end of 2019, we have witnessed clear changes in the policies of several European countries regarding asylum and especially the reception of Syrian refugees. The reasons for the c...