this is news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes africa's. gone his audience has a new bill that will make it easier to hold a horse news accountable information minister said the old burnish the country's credentials as a democracy. and other laws that are. deepening the rights of citizens without become participate in the democracy that there's two parts which are the democrats who thrives on the kind of information that. that's is gone is repudiation azubuike and also chris freedom in jeopardy will a policy and needs to be championed. and disputed election result of one of the world's poorest and i'm stable states position cries fall off the commerce president. landslide reelection.

i'm christine window while come to news africa i'm glad your chin didn't know make is in gonna have pasta bill that will allow more transparency and accountability in public if it is the right information bill has been welcomed by journalists in the country who say the role will make their work easier is specially when it comes to accessing government data but even before the bill was passed it's worth noting that reporters without borders gave gone the best ranking for press freedoms of any african country ranked globally got a comes in twenty third and that's out of one hundred seventy eight in the media watchdogs twenty eight list that quotes the west african nation well ahead of britain which comes in fortieth and the united states is even further down the rankings placed at forty six.

people in ghana have been waiting for this moment for decades ghana's parliament has finally passed the right to information act the first draft introduced in one thousand nine hundred ninety. down by amendments and delays john lissa followed the long debate closely they sing the new law can now finally change the social fabric of the best african country. it's a major game changer for how i said media war practice and also for the people who does bill this really for the ability to access information and know what's happening with how the state is being run. it's been a long waits and so if you know how this quite makes happy that has been passed but sudden decision for us to get to this point and there's even longer to wait the law won't be fully implemented for at least another year enormous education efforts are also needed for officials the general public and the press. to have to do their own proper. if it's an investigation good they're going to visit using give it

necessary information that they need to do good journalism but for the general citizen this is a good thing that allows you to get information students etc to get information to push their work at all for instance for anyone working on corruption cases the law would be key in holding politicians and public officials accountable for their actions now gunna civil society must ensure these new phones rise on paper put into practice. for more on this we can talk now to get the an awful soupy a policy analyst also member off the investigative platform plus its and off the media coalition on the right information which campaigned for the new law and given welcomes a d.w.i. africa this is a huge achievement for you what's changed for the people of gaza. for. it is a very huge actually humans and then we are so happy because what it means for us

is that information. and then it's we need to dip in transparency and then citizens by species in the governance process. ok get in so we know that gaga is already on the top of the list when it comes to press freedoms is this really going to improve things for the prius is it is really going to improve things for their prayers because of the media is to police traditional rule for you for the kids in the team then get enough information and share in it's it's quite it's key to the shipping governance in ghana right gideon got it now joins a number of countries on the continent that have all that already have the right information access. why has it taken this wrong. the rights to information bill has taken long because there has not been. political will from the

government has been lacking and then number two what happened was that m. people people in government who are of the view that government should have a peace of mind to be the administration and government and then as a model five issue can be anything like a right to information. governance process or those who are also of the school of thought so it has mainly been the lack of political will and commitment by successive governments in ensuring that this bill is passed into law that has been the most things that we have no overcome this barrier all right standard i get in one district just this in some of the reaction that's come through to this this is abraham al-hassan a political correspondent for g h one. in fact information in the past. has been treated privilege. days the media on one hand. who have the information i'm talking about on the other hand. information is the press personal

property and making a difficult for us so what the passage of the r.c.i. bill we feel very hopeful that there will be if you know the past now if you request for any information you have been denied you have the. ok get in you can resort to the course of lol do you think that this means will see more that he. will this change officials and make them more willing to handle the information. the two of them i believe that it is not going to result in more litigation because of the bill which as nonbeing i sent it and we have now been given approval by pilot and he had to be. approved by the presidents to be made no proceeding so the first up is that if you want information you contact the unit in charge to release that information for you if that feels you go to the second step whereby you talk to the head of departments or the spotify software that's you need to

provide you with the information that you want that feels mound below which is soon going to be at all establishments the right to information commission who becomes the on mr point of call or that's to provide you with whatever information that you want and it is only one that feels that you have to resource to the courts so i believe that given the stages. i believe that a bill would be live this course it's a good thing because because because i would say group through treaty a system i believe that it will be resolved. points of the take get it out when she was this really quickly they've been some worrying developments and god that attacks on journalists this is one of the countries we know is a beacon for press freedom is that putting that refutation at risk. i can see yes and no yes because if. this is not. the same thing you've got a man's that's not an issue and then deals with that of course it will be these are

not the words but of course these are something small we have about four hundred media organizations. online and they're out on our ballots doing the our web site also thought well we need to mean by does government if we see commitment by the minister of syria in dealing with this issue so we have so much assure that this issue will be dealt with all right gideon off also paisa media coalition on the rights to information thank you thanks to call models now where incumbent presidents as early as money has been reelected by a landslide that is if you believe the results of bisht by the electoral commission the main opposition party obvious seats as they say that sunday's poll amounts to a coup d'etat a modest one of the wolves poorest and most unstable states the president's campaign calls the opposition's allegations quote pathetic and accuse them of quote wanting to create disorder that's off the clashes with the police in the kept

capital model any earlier this week. emotions are running high for two days the opposition has been out on the streets accusing the incumbent to stealing the election. police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the demonstrations in the capital twelve people were injured. the government says that the results are crystal clear the sitting president is reelected turn of the five years. as a leader assume money ninety six thousand six hundred thirty five votes that is to say sixty point seven seven percent. this outright win in the first round to cause consternation on the other side the main opposition refuses to accept the result. we consider that there was no election day sunday. this was instead a coup set up by as early as some money and his team. and the army had to do with

this coup because we saw soldiers carrying ballot boxes in several polling stations such as one john and more. serious allegations which are dividing the capital moroni. supporters of the president say the result is a fair victory for their man. it's a win for democracy for those who knew democracy needs to be respected one today. those who didn't want him ocracy showed it. but election observers from regional bodies such as the african union were also critical saying the electoral process was full of irregularities the disputed election in the poor and unstable island nation isn't going to ease the tension here ok so there's a giant tuna sandwich behind me and you're wondering why well one of our reporters was recently in senegal and she stumbled upon

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