ZAMBIA PRESIDENT APPROVES LAW EXPANDING PARLIAMENT MONTHS BEFORE ELECTION. (PHOTO).

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 Zambia president approves law expanding parliament months before election Zambia's President Hakainde Hichilema on Thursday signed into law constitutional changes that will expand the country's parliament, Reuters reported. The changes increase the number of members of parliament to around 280 from 167 currently by creating more constituencies, reserving 40 new seats for women, youth and people with disabilities, and allowing the president to appoint 11 members instead of eight previously. Hichilema, who will run for a second presidential term in the August 2026 election, said during a signing ceremony that the changes were being made in good faith and there was adequate consultation. He previously argued that some constituencies were too big for effective service delivery and should be split into smaller ones. Some opposition politicians have criticised the move to increase the number of members of parliament at a time when the country is still emerging from a protracted debt...

CAPE VERDE GOVT DEBUNK THE TRAVEL ALERT ISSUED BY THE US GOVT,OVER A NEW VIRUS ''zIKA''.

According to CCTV,Cape Verde has dismissed a travel alert issued by the US government over zika virus,saying the concerns were overblown and that the number of cases of the virus in the country was on the decline.The US Cerntre for Disease Control {CDC} extended its travel warning on friday to a futher eight countries,including Cape Verde,that pse a risk of infection with zika ,bringing the total number to 22.The virus zika is a mosquito borne virus spreading through the Caribbean and Latin America.Only about 20 percent of the infected cases display'' symptoms which are usually mild and include fever,join and conjunctivitis.The CDC warns that it can also be spread from pregnant women to foetuses and has been linked to a birth defect called microcephaly,in which babies are born with abnormally small heads and sometimes brain damage.Jorge Barreto,the representatives for Cape Verde's National Directorate of Health,said the warning did not constitute a travel ban but was intended to persuade women who are pregnant or who may become pregnant to take precautions.Barreto said ''The Ministry of Health believes that maybe there was a misunderstanding in the interpretation of the recommedation issued by the CDC.Wwe have seen a decreese in terms of notification of zika cases.Last week we recorded 126 cases and the week before there were 212 cases''.The Cape Verde government says it believes the virus was imported from Brazil.One more photo below.                                                                                                                                                   

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