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Another scramble for Africa's resources

September 23, 2011 ex-President Horst Kohler of Germany

Former German President. Horst Kohler has cautioned that Africa’s resources face yet another scramble.

President Kohler was speaking in the Ghanaian capital, Accra at a lecture forum during the week.

"Double discrimination" against girls worldwide--says new study

September 23, 2011 Girls in West Africa

The children’s charity, Plan International says girls around the world face “double discrimination,” in a new report released on Thursday.

According to the report titled, Because I am a girl, research shows that girls are more likely to suffer from malnutrition, forced into early marriage,   be subject to violence and trafficked as well as forced into the sex trade or get infected with HIV.

Mali-China bridge opened in Bamako

September 23, 2011 Inauguration of Mali-China bridge

Malian President Amadou Toumani Touré has inaugurated the third bridge in the capital, Bamaka.

The China-Mali Friendship Bridge was opened Thursday as part of celebrations marking Mali’s 51st independence anniversary.

 

High level ECOWAS mission arrives in Liberia today

September 22, 2011 L'ex-President du Ghana John Kufuor et son épouse

Two former Presidents of Ghana and Nigeria—John Kufuor and General Abdulsalami Abubaka--are due to arrive in Liberia tomorrow, Thursday at the head of a high powered ECOWAS mission, ahead of next month’s presidential and legislative elections.

Moves to settle S.Leone-Guinea 'Yenga' border dispute

September 22, 2011 President Ernest Bai Koroma, Sierra Leone

A traditional chief in Sierra Leone is the latest to join a groundswell of calls for an urgent resolution of the protracted border dispute with neighbouring Guinea over an area called, Yenga.

'Only personal, collective confessions yield reconciliation'---Guinean Archbishop

September 21, 2011 Archbishop Vincent Coulibaly, Guinea

In Guinea, the process of national reconciliation will be officially launched next Wednesday, September 28.

The announcement was made in the capital, Conakry by the Co-Chairman of the National committee of reflection, who spoke of of modalities being worked out for the successful implementation of the reconciliation process.

Positive changes in Guinea Bissau, despite woes

September 21, 2011 Joseph Mutaboba, UN envoy to Guinea Bissau

Whenever Guinea Bissau is mentioned in the media, especially the Western media, it is almost always for the wrong reasons.

From repeated coup attempts to high level political assassinations and poverty to drugs, the tiny West African country was always portrayed as a top example of a failed state.

'Liberia's prisons appalling'--says Amnesty Int'l

September 21, 2011 Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Liberia President

Amnesty International says conditions in some of Liberia’s prisons are appalling and violate basic human rights of inmates.

In a new report, Amnesty said inmates are crowded into "dirty cells without adequate food, water or healthcare."

 

Liberia high court halts elections activities 3 weeks to polls

September 21, 2011 James Fromoyan, Chairman Liberia's NEC

Liberia’s Supreme Court has issued a stay order, halting all electoral activities, pending investigations into a law suit filed against the National elections Commission (NEC) for allegedly violating the constitution, with presidential and legislative elections just three weeks away.

Prominent activist calls for increased funding for women's human rights

September 20, 2011 Ministers, activists at the Accra gender symposium

The fight for gender equality and women's human rights are quickly gaining momentum across Africa, the sub-region in particular.

From the struggle for an end to female genital cutting in the Gambia to the advocacy for bigger political role for women in Sierra Leone, feminists and gender rights activists are winning in their fights to break the barriers.