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By Derrick Sinjela UNITED Party for National Development (UPND) leader Hakainde Hichilema says the Commission of Inquiry on Voting Patterns and Electoral Violence headed by Justice Munalula Lisimba is an exercise in futility. Speaking a day after Justice Lishimba launched the commission’s programme of work, following its appointment by Republican President Edgar Lungu on 21st October, 2016; Mr. Hichilema doubted the impartiality of the Commission of Inquiry on Voting Patterns and Electoral Violence. According to Hichilema people who undermined the electoral process before, during and after the August 2016 Presidential Elections and a National Referendum are known. The programme recommends...

By Chinedu Moghalu, Head, Corporate Communications, Nigerian Export-Import Bank. It is in the enlightened self-interest of African private sector to begin to mobilise investment capital for Africa’s climate action LAGOS, Nigeria, December 12, 2016/ — The global community for climate action was spooked by the November 8 election of Donald Trump as the next President of the United States. The US President-elect had earned the sobriquet of “climate denier,” for his claim that climate change is a hoax. However, there is cautious optimism that his presidency will not overturn the global agenda on climate change. Hopefully, his views on climate...