Fatuma Ndangiza Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/fatuma-ndangiza/ The low down on African affairs Sun, 30 Nov 2014 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Fatuma Ndangiza Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/fatuma-ndangiza/ 32 32 AU thumbs up for Namiba’s election https://jjcornish.com/2014/12/au-thumbs-namibas-election/ Sun, 30 Nov 2014 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2014/12/au-thumbs-namibas-election/ The region and the continent have given their seals of approval to Namibia’s elections held last Friday. They commended the peaceful nature of the operation  but both call on the Windhoek authorities to simplify the process that led to long delays. ends intro Heading the SADC observer mission in Namibia, Minister of International Relations and […]

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They commended the peaceful nature of the operation  but both call on the Windhoek authorities to simplify the process that led to long delays.
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Heading the SADC observer mission in Namibia, Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Maite Nkoana Mashebane says despite the delays there was high voter turnout and Namibians should respect the outcome that gives SWAPO another mandate and puts Hage Geingob at the helm as president.
African Union mission head Fatuma Ndangiza gives the process the thumbs up but says it should be simplified. Operators of the electronic voting and security scanning systems – a first for Africa – must be better trained, she says.

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