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US$85m World Bank funds for electricity in Senegal

June 6, 2012 Makhtar Diop, World Bank Vice President for Africa .

The World Bank has announced that it will provide 85 million US dollars to help Senegal solve its energy problem.

Insecurity heightens locust invasion threat in Mali, Niger--FAO

June 6, 2012 Desert locust

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is warning that a locust invasion, previously controlled by the late Gaddafi government and Algeria, is threatening croplands in Niger and Mali. 

Accra still in shock after air crash, as pilot blames bad weather

June 5, 2012

It’s exactly three days today when an Allied Air cargo plane crashed landed and killed 10 people travelling in a passenger bus in Ghana’s capital, Accra. 

Guinea returns disputed Yenga to Sierra Leone July

June 5, 2012 Disputed border town of Yenga

After years of bickering, Guinea has promised to hand over the small border town of Yenga to neighbouring Sierra Leone.

Yenga is the territory where Guinean troops have been occupying since the country took part in the sub-regional ECOMOG force to end Sierra Leone’s civil war in the 1990s .

Mali Premier mobilizes army to flush out rebels from north

June 4, 2012 Premier Modibo Diarra in Ségou

It seems that Mali’s interim government in Bamako has had enough ot the MNLA and Islamist rebels’ occupation of the north.

Prime Minister Sheik Modibo Diarra, who is a career space scientist, has put the citizens on the war path and made a rallying call on the Malian armed forces to end the portioning of the country.

West Africa: Concrete move to breaking trade, transport barriers

June 4, 2012 World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick

The World Bank has approved a US$90 million grant to finance the Abidjan-Lagos Trade and Transport Facilitation Project.

Sunday’s air crash a “national calamity”—Says Goodluck

June 4, 2012 Some 153 passengers and crew perished suddenly

--as Nigeria observes 3 days mourning

Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has described as a “national calamity,” the crash of the Dana airline plane, which killed some 146 passengers and 7 crew members in the commercial capital, Lagos on Sunday.

Nigerian plane carrying more than 150 crashes in Lagos

June 3, 2012

A Dana Air passenger plane on a flight from Abuja to Lagos has reportedly crashed into residential area of Iju-Ishaga Abgado area of Nigeria’s commercial capital, Lagos.

The country’s aviation authority which confirmed the crash said that the plane took off from Abuja at about 4:20 pm and had on board 153 passengers.

 

Mills visits scene of Ghana plane crash which killed 10

June 3, 2012 L'épave de l'avion cargo à Accra

Ghana’s President John Atta Mills on Sunday morning visited the site of the cargo plane crash in the capital, Accra, as investigations are going on into the cause of the accident, which left 10 people dead.

Senegal: Sall govt. preparing to put Hissen Habre on trial

June 3, 2012 Ex-President Hissène Habré of Chad

The Macky Sall government in Senegal has assured that it will give former Chadian President Hissen Habre a fair and equitable trial, as the country’s Justice Ministry announced plans to try him for war crimes, crimes against humanity and torture.