The Mano River Union (MRU) is an international association initially established between Liberia and Sierra Leone by the 3 October 1973 Mano River Declaration. It is named for the Mano River which begins in the Guinea highlands and forms a border between Liberia and Sierra Leone. On 25 October 1980,Guinea joined the union.
The Botswana Congress Party (BCP) is a social democratic political party in Botswana. Founded in 1998 as a result of a split from the Botswana National Front (BNF),the party attracted most of the BNF's sitting MPs due to a leadership dispute involving the BNF's leader,Kenneth Koma.
Khauhelo Deborah Raditapole was a member of the Pan-African Parliament from Lesotho. Raditapole was born in Maseru on 7 August 1938. She had her earlier education in Lesotho,but obtained her Pharmacy degree from Lvov Medical School at Ukraine and completed her higher studies in the US. She worked in a teaching hospital in Tanzania for 10 years as she was denied entry to Lesotho. She returned to Lesotho in 1987 at the invitation of the then Principal Secretary for Health Tom Thabane.
Justin Lekoundzou Itihi Ossetoumba was a Congolese politician. He was a founding member of the Congolese Labour Party (PCT),and during the PCT's single-party rule he held important party and government positions in the 1970s and 1980s. He served in the government again from 1997 to 2002 and was elected to the National Assembly of Congo-Brazzaville in 2002.
General elections were held in Botswana on 16 October 2009,alongside local elections,with early voting in 26 polling stations abroad taking place 3 October. The result was a tenth successive victory for the Botswana Democratic Party,which won 45 of the 57 elected seats in the National Assembly.
Philip Waki is a retired Kenyan judge. He is best known for heading the 2008 Commission of Inquiry into Post-Election Violence,also known as the Waki Commission. He retired from the Court of Appeal in October 2019. He is also the cousin to Lawyer Mutula Kilonzo the personal lawyer to Kenya's Second President Daniel Arap Moi.
Margaret Nnananyana Nasha is a Botswana politician who served as the Speaker of the National Assembly from 2009 to 2014. She was the first woman to hold the position.
David Simango is a Mozambican politician he was Mayor of Maputo. He is a member of FRELIMO. He was Governor of Niassa Province from 2000 to 2005 and then Minister of Youth and Sports from 2005 to 2008. He was elected as Mayor of Maputo in 2008 and 2013 and he was re-elected in 2013.
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1726,adopted unanimously on December 15,2006,after recalling previous resolutions on the situation in Côte d'Ivoire,the Council extended the mandate of the United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) and supporting French forces until January 10,2007.
General and local elections were held in Botswana on 24 October 2014. The result was an eleventh straight victory for the Botswana Democratic Party,which won 37 of the 57 elected seats. Incumbent president Ian Khama was sworn in for a second term on 28 October.
Duma Gideon Boko is a Botswana politician and lawyer currently serving as the sixth president of Botswana since 1 November 2024 and as leader of the Umbrella for Democratic Change since 2012. He served as the leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly from 2014 to 2019.
Zedi Feruzi was a Burundian politician from the minor Union for Peace and Development (UPD-Zigamibanga) party. His assassination during the political unrest of 2015,allegedly by supporters of the incumbent government of Pierre Nkurunziza,led to an increased polarisation between government and its political opponents.
Maria Cristina Lopes Almeida Fontes Lima is a Cape Verdean lawyer and politician who served as minister of justice from 2001 to 2006,Minister of Defence from 2006 to 2011 and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health from 2011 to 2016.
Sharon Bar-li is the Deputy Director of the Africa Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Israel) and was the Israeli ambassador to Ghana and Liberia from 2011 until 2015. While serving in Ghana,she was responsible for opening the Israeli embassy for the first time in 38 years.,She was later appointed deputy ambassador to London.
Anna Maria Mokgethi is a Motswana politician serving as the Minister of Nationality,Immigration and Gender Affairs since November 2019. She is the Member of Parliament for Gaborone Bonnington North. Mokgethi is a member of the Botswana Democratic Party.
Da Jacob Gyang Buba CFR is a retired Nigeria customs officer and elder statesman. He served as the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service from 2004 to 2008. On April 1,2009,he was sworn in as the Gbong Gwom,the paramount traditional ruler of the Berom Kingdom,becoming the 5th Gbong Gwom after the demise of Da Victor Dung Pam. He is the Chairman,Jos Traditional Council of Chiefs and president of the Plateau State Traditional Council. He currently serves as the 3rd Chancellor of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University since March 2016 at the 10th convocation of the institution.
In Botswana,the Leader of the Opposition is the Dumelang Saleshando who is the head of the Leading opposition party,the Botswana Congress Party. The position is awarded to the leader of the political party with the largest number of seats in the National Assembly that is not in the government. The position was created shortly before the independence of Botswana,after the first elections under universal suffrage in the then territory of Bechuanaland.
Bourhane Hamidou is a politician from Comoros who served as President and Speaker of the Assembly of Comoros. He was an independent candidate for 2016 Comorian presidential election in which he got 6,397 votes. He is the supporter of Sun Party of Comoros. In March 2015,he resigned as Speaker. He also served as Minister of Interior and Information.
General elections were held in Botswana on 30 October 2024 to determine the composition of the 13th Parliament of Botswana as well as local councils across the country. Up for election were 61 seats of the National Assembly as well as 609 local council seats,all elected through the first-past-the-post voting system.
Ndaba Nkosinathi Gaolathe is a Motswana economist and politician,currently serving as Vice-President of Botswana and Minister of Finance since 7 November 2024,under President Duma Boko. Gaolathe is the leader of the Alliance for Progressives,one of the parties within the ruling coalition Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC). He is also an elected member of the National Assembly of Botswana for the Gaborone Bonnington South constituency since the 2024 elections,a position he previously held from 2014 to 2019.
