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authorities to consider reviewing the 1973 decree on the ban on political parties and allow them to freely participate in the election”.

The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) election observation mission in its report said the elections had been successful, “in line with the constitution of the Kingdom...”

Unlike the AU, however, SADC didn’t take into consideration whether was a democracy or not and qualified this by saying that it was not in the country to change its governance but only to observe elections. – ANA – ANA

Picture: AFP Birds in their cages during a bird-singing competition in Thailand’s Narathiwat yesterday. Over 1 600 birds from Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore took part in the annual contest.