{"id":10583,"date":"2016-08-02T19:24:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T19:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=10583"},"modified":"2016-08-02T19:24:18","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T19:24:18","slug":"former-president-goodluck-jonathan-to-lead-au-elections-observer-mission-to-zambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=10583","title":{"rendered":"FORMER PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN TO LEAD AU ELECTIONS OBSERVER MISSION TO ZAMBIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><br \/>\n <!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<p class=\"caps\">Former President Goodluck Jonathan has been appointed to lead African Union Elections Observer Mission (AUEOM) to the Zambian general elections scheduled to take place on <span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">October 11<\/span><\/span>.<span id=\"more-9434\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\u00a0The appointment of the former president of Nigeria was made by Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, chairperson, according to a statement posted on AU\u2019s website <span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Monday<\/span><\/span>.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The statement stated that Jonathan\u00a0would be leading members of the short-term mission to join the\u00a0continental body\u2019s deployment of long-term election experts who are\u00a0already on ground in Zambia.Below are the details of the press release:The Chairperson of the African Union Commission has approved the\u00a0deployment of African Union Elections Observation Mission (AUEOM) to\u00a0the General Elections scheduled to place in the Republic of Zambia on\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">11 October 2016<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The deployment of the AUEOM will take place in two phases. The first\u00a0phase comprise the deployment of long term election experts and took\u00a0place from 14 July to <span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">22 August 2016<\/span><\/span> and it is made up of 10\u00a0observers. For the first time, the African Union long term experts\u00a0include election\/ legal political\/media\/campaign analysts. The\u00a0objective is to ensure that the AUEOM approaches its work with added\u00a0professionalism and factual analysis of the legal, political,\u00a0electoral, media and campaign aspects of the electoral process in\u00a0Zambia.<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><br \/>\n <!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p>At the second phase of the Mission, the long-term experts will to be\u00a0joined by Short Term observers from the 1st to<span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">15 August 2016<\/span><\/span>. The\u00a0Short Term Mission will be headed by H.E. Goodluck Jonathan, former\u00a0President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The African Union Elections Observation Mission draws its mandate from\u00a0various African Union instruments, most importantly: (a) the African\u00a0Union Guidelines for Elections Observation and Monitoring Missions\u00a0(2002); (b) the OUA\/AU Declaration on Principles Governing Democratic\u00a0Elections in Africa (2002); African Charter on Human and Peoples\u00a0Rights (1981) and (c) African Charter on Democracy, Elections and<br \/>\nGovernance (2007), among others.<\/p>\n<p>The objectives of the Mission is (a) to provide an accurate and\u00a0impartial reporting or assessment of the quality of the<span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">25th October<\/span><\/span>\u00a0General Elections in the United Republic of Tanzania, including the\u00a0degree to which the conduct of the elections meets regional,<br \/>\ncontinental and international standards for democratic elections;\u00a0\u00a0(b)\u00a0to offer recommendations for improvement of future elections based on\u00a0the findings; and, and (c) to demonstrate AU\u2019s interest to support\u00a0Tanzania\u2019s elections and democratisation process to ensure that the\u00a0conduct of genuine elections contributes to the consolidation of\u00a0democratic governance, peace and stability in Tanzania in particular <a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/jonathan-foundation.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10544\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10544\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/jonathan-foundation-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"jonathan foundation\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/jonathan-foundation-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/jonathan-foundation-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/jonathan-foundation-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/jonathan-foundation-80x80.jpg 80w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/jonathan-foundation-40x40.jpg 40w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/jonathan-foundation-64x64.jpg 64w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/jonathan-foundation-75x75.jpg 75w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/jonathan-foundation.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>and the East African sub-region in general.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><code><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><br \/>\n <!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Goodluck Jonathan has been appointed to lead African Union Elections Observer Mission (AUEOM) to the Zambian general elections scheduled to take place on October 11. \u00a0The appointment of the former president of Nigeria was made by Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, chairperson, according to a statement posted on AU\u2019s website on Monday. The statement stated that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[2598,2600,2599],"class_list":["post-10583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news","tag-african-union-elections-observer-mission","tag-nkosazana-dlamini-zuma","tag-zambia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/jonathan-foundation.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-2KH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10584,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10583\/revisions\/10584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}