Former Senegalese prime minister Ousmane Sonko was elected speaker of the National Assembly on Tuesday, with 132 votes out of 133 lawmakers voting. One lawmaker abstained. Senegal’s National Assembly has 165 seats. Sonko succeeds El Malick Ndiaye, who announced his resignation as speaker on Sunday. The electionContinue Reading
Theodore Datouo, a lawmaker from the ruling Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement (CPDM), was elected speaker of Cameroon’s National Assembly on Tuesday. He secured 133 of 147 votes during an elective plenary sitting held in the capital, Yaounde, with 14 ballots declared invalid, according to results released by the NationalContinue Reading
By Francis Kobena Tandoh Parliament is now scheduled to resume to commence business on October 21; this is according to a statement from the Office of the Speaker. The statement signed by Rt. Hon. Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin comes on the back of an earlier letter deferring indefinitely the commencementContinue Reading
