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Daily Nation
April 28, 2018
READ: The power of a handshake - Daily Nation. Mr Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) chairman John Mbadi said the team should have been unveiled before the end of April. “President Kenyatta and Hon Raila Odinga should move with speed to come up with the roadmap, and the team forÃâà...
ThePrint
April 27, 2018
Political instability has persisted in Nepal since the days of the first democracy movement in the early 1950s, when the infamous Rana regime was ousted and, ironically, monarchy was restored as a mark of democratic victory. The clock turned a full circle when, after almost 60 years, another democracyÃâà...
africanews
April 25, 2018
Zenawi belonged to the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front (TPLF). Current PM Abiy Ahmed belongs to the Oromo Peoples Democratic Organization (OPDO) the final member of the EPRDF is the Amhara National Democratic Movement (ANDM). The current deputy PM is Demeke Mekonnen is from theÃâà...
North Coast Courier
April 4, 2018
Many more erudite and comprehensive histories of her life are being published in newspapers across the country this week, so it is worth remembering her visit to Stanger in October 1989 at the invitation of the Mass Democratic Movement, successor to the United Democratic Front, and the ReleaseÃâà...
Reuters TV
April 3, 2018
was a fiery movement against Beijing's heavy hand, but in recent days the fight for Hong Kong's democracy has fizzled out.>> I feel helpless. As citizens, there's a limit in what we can do.>> As China tightens its grip on the city, Hong Kong's democracy movement is facing a crisis of confidence about itsÃâà...
Times of India
April 3, 2018
Hong Kong's once thriving pro-democracy movement, weighed down by growing pessimism among its supporters over China's ever-increasing control in the city, is facing a crisis of confidence about its future. It was a fiery movement against Beijing's heavy hand, but in recent days the fight for Hong Kong'sÃâà...
Middle East Eye
April 2, 2018
Five years ago last month, 94 social and political activists in the UAE stood accused of conspiring to overthrow the government after signing a petition calling for democratic reforms. The case of the UAE 94, as it came to be called, became a watershed moment for state-sponsored repression in the Emirates.
Hivisasa
March 30, 2018
Wiper Democratic Movement (WDM) deputy leader Farah Maalim has laughed at the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) over inability to intervene in National Resistance Movement (NRM) leader Miguna Miguna's woes. In a tweet Thursday, Maalim wondered why ODM leader Raila Odinga failed to save Miguna from theÃâà...
thenews.pl
March 30, 2018
Kiszczak also played a key role in imposing martial law and suppressing the Solidarity pro-democracy movement in Poland. He died in 2015. A parliamentary report compiled in the early 1990s said more than 90 people were killed during martial law, which was introduced in the country on December 13,Ãâà...
Egypttoday
March 30, 2018
Following the withdrawal of the leftist human rights activist and lawyer Khaled Ali, the recently-formed Civil Democratic Movement held a press conference ... “The election became more of a referendum than an election,” spokesperson of the Civil Democratic Movement, Khaled Dawood, told Egypt Today,Ãâà...
Xinhua
March 29, 2018
Desalegn comes from another EPRDF coalition member party, the Southern Ethiopian People's Democratic Movement and has been leading Ethiopia after the death of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi in August 2012. The expected confirmation of Abiy Ahmed as Ethiopia's next PM on Saturday will end moreÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 28, 2018
... that make up the coalition. Mainly divided along ethnic lines, the parties are: the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front (TPLF), the Amhara National Democratic Movement (ANDM), the Oromo Peoples' Democratic Organisation (OPDO) and the Southern Ethiopian People's Democratic Movement (SEPDM).
Waging Nonviolence
March 23, 2018
Pollack, a former fundraising intern for the Democratic National Committee, got the idea for this statewide pro-democracy movement while sitting in a jail cell in Washington, D.C. It was in April of 2016 and he had just been arrested with over a thousand other protesters as part of a mass civil disobedienceÃâà...
africanews
March 22, 2018
It also means that the current leader of Desalegn's party – the Southern Ethiopian Peoples Democratic Movement (SEPDM) , Shiferaw Shigute, will replace Mekonen as deputy PM. Shigute is currently working with the EPRDF secretariat and previously served as Education minister. Whoever of the sevenÃâà...
TIME
March 12, 2018
After Hong Kong's pro-democracy camp failed to win back all four seats in a crucial by-election Sunday, activists say they fear China's freest city could effectively be governed by a rubber-stamping body for Beijing. Pro-democracy candidates won two of the seats up for grabs, but ceded the other two toÃâà...
New York Times
March 10, 2018
HONG KONG — Hong Kong's pro-democracy camp fears the movement could be dealt a further setback when voters go the polls on Sunday. The expected loss of seats in the territory's legislature, democracy activists say, is the result of a system increasingly controlled by Beijing and stacked against them.
Truth-Out
March 8, 2018
As far back as 1835, perhaps our nation's earliest and most astute observer, Alexis de Tocqueville, understood the power of the media. He described the press as "the chief democratic instrument of freedom." But today our "instrument of freedom" seems to mean the freedom to enrich oneself privately,Ãâà...
Macau Business
February 27, 2018
Macau (MNA) – Legislator Sulu Sou Ka Hou said this Tuesday that “it's a hard moment for the Chinese, Hong Kong and Macau democratic movements” when asked about his views on the recently announced proposal that could see President Xi Jinping's term extended. On February 25, the ChineseÃâà...
Yonhap News
February 27, 2018
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Yonhap) -- President Moon Jae-in on Wednesday attended a ceremony commemorating a 1960 pro-democracy movement in the southeastern city of Daegu, becoming the first South Korean president to do so in 18 years. On Feb. 28, 1960, about 1,700 high school students participated inÃâà...
FAIR
February 26, 2018
As far back as 1835, perhaps our nation's earliest and most astute observer, Alexis de Tocqueville, understood the power of the media. He described the press as “the chief democratic instrument of freedom.” But today our “instrument of freedom” seems to mean the freedom to enrich oneself privately,Ãâà...
AllAfrica.com
December 31, 1999
The Raila Odinga-led Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) clashed with Deputy President William Ruto over calls to amend the constitution in order to expand the executive. ODM Secretary General Edwin Sifuna said the push for changes is unstoppable while Mr Ruto said the campaign is premature andÃâà...
Algeria Press Service
December 31, 1999
NAAAMA-President of the Republic Abdelaziz Bouteflika on Monday called Algerians to contribute to the pluralist democratic movement in the country and ... Algerian must contribute to the pluralist democratic movement and place the supreme interests of the Algerian people above any other consideration.
