Global News by Tag: Politics
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA – The Secretariat of Public Communication, a government body, hosted journalists from around the world last week to a conference emphasizing the role of the media in promoting and defending human rights. Part of the day included a tour of the former Escuela de Mecánica de la Armada, ESMA, an army training school that functioned as a detention, torture and disappearance center during the last military dictatorship, which ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983.
MONROVIA, LIBERIA – The response to the final election results tallied Tuesday confirming the re-election of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has been tepid in Liberia. While her supporters say continuity means progress, others say that the elections weren’t legitimate because the opposition party boycotted the second vote.
PATTAN, KASHMIR, INDIA – Zana Begum, a resident of Buren-Pattan, a locality of Jammu and Kashmir state in India, says her interest drove her to run in the first elections for her area’s panchayat, the local village council, in a decade. She ran unopposed earlier this year and gained a seat as a panch, a local government representative.
She says her family didn’t support her, but she took on the challenge anyway.
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA – Tens of thousands of people filled the streets of Buenos Aires, Argentina’s capital, Sunday night to celebrate the re-election of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, a figure both loved and criticized, who captured the votes of more than 50 percent of the electorate.
LUSAKA, ZAMBIA – Echoes of jubilation filled the city Friday when President Michael Sata, 74, of the Patriotic Front political party was declared the winner of the 2011 presidential election 35 minutes after midnight.
BAMENDA, CAMEROON – At every stop along the campaign trail, Edith Kabbang Walla, 45, popularly known here as Kah Walla, is generating excitement among women nationwide. Walla is the only female candidate running for president in Cameroon’s October elections.
“The interest of women in politics has been aroused, but now we want their active participation,” Walla says during a recent visit to Bamenda, a city in northwestern Cameroon.
LUSAKA, ZAMBIA – Ruth Zozi, 47, dreams of becoming a member of Parliament, MP, and representing her constituency. But she says there are three factors that will never allow her dream to come true: She is illiterate. She is poor. She is a woman.
Zozi resides in the interior area of Chawama, a compound of Lusaka, the capital. Every day she leaves her home early in the morning to sell her fish at Chawama market, hoping to make a living.