The independent local authority for elections (IRIE) in Manouba held a training day for 24 electoral officials on Saturday at the Manouba Technopark, in preparation for the campaign for the local election run-off scheduled for February4.
Ahmed Douik, IRIE’s coordinator in Manouba, told TAP the training was an opportunity to review the procedures, principles and rules of the electoral campaign, particularly with regard to financing, monitoring and coordination systems, methods of recording and updating information, procedures and decisions.
The training is part of preparations for the run-off in Manouba, where 46 candidates are vying for local councils in the region, according to the same source.
During the campaign for the first round of elections, the IRIE recorded a total of 732 electoral activities and 33 violations involving 164 candidates in the region’s direct elections, in which 26 candidates won seats on local councils in the first round.
Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse
The National Council for Persons Living with Disabilities has called on persons with disabilities [PWDs] to register online and get disability certificates from eCitizen.
In a notice to the general public, the council noted that disability cards will no longer be issued or required as proof of disability going forward.
‘Accessing or registering through eCitizen is easier because earlier people used to send us national identity cards, which really took a long time to reach us but right now, once you are registered, we give you something like a waiting card that can be printed on the cyber,’ Magdalene Mboke, an officer in charge of people with disabilities in the Nakuru regional office, said.
The government, she added, provided assistive devices such as wheelchairs, white canes and sunscreen cream to PWDs, as well as monthly stipends, but the council mostly depends on donors for additional support on such gadgets.
In addition, she said, the government had extended bursaries to PWD students who are enrollin
g to junior secondary and form one and that it would continue to offer support for the children who excel to continue to higher levels of education.
Source: Kenya News Agency