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Spain gives 1m Euros to lift W, Africa rural women

July 16, 2012

The Spanish government has provided one million Euros to empower rural women in West Africa, under a project that will run for two years.

The Business Incubator for African Women Entrepreneurs (BIAWE) will nurture the business ventures of rural African women operating primarily in the area of agriculture while supporting initiatives in economic capacity building, promoting rural entrepreneurship and developing agricultural resources.

9 oil blocks awarded to several firms by Sierra Leone

July 16, 2012 President Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone’s government has awarded nine provisional offshore oil blocks to companies, after what President Ernest Bai Koroma’s office called, “a painstaking and time-consuming technical evaluation process.” 

Cholera epidemic in Guinea: 41 deaths, 655 cases recorded

July 16, 2012 People in queue for cholera vaccination in Guinea

By Abdourahmane Diallo/WADR Correspondent

A Cholera epidemic has killed 41 people in Guinea, as authorities struggle to contain some 655 cases reported so far.

Guinea’s Minister of Health and Public Hygiene Dr Naman Kéita made the disclosure to Journalists in Conakry at the weekend.

 

Strong South African woman, Dlamini-Zuma elected AU Chair

July 16, 2012 Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, incoming AU Chair

The African Union (AU) has elected its first ever woman Chairman, former South African Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.

At the 19th AU summit in Addis Ababa, Ms Dlamini-Zuma beat incumbent Jean Ping of Gabon, after a closely fought contest for the chairmanship of the continental body on Sunday.

Ghana media to shape up with code of conduct, before polls

July 15, 2012 Ghanaians will be going to the polls come December

Ahead of Ghana’s presidential and general elections in less than five months, the Ghana Independent Broadcasters Association (GIA) has launched a code of conduct for Journalists during the 2012 polls. 

 

Safety of children fleeing Mali conflict being “compromised”

July 15, 2012 Children and women face the brunt of conflict

--Plan Int’l urges commitment to end suffering

With no immediate end in sight to the Malian crisis, “reports have now surfaced that safety of children fleeing the conflict in Mali has been compromised,” the children development organization, said Plan International.

CPJ on safety for Mali press after gunmen attacked publisher

July 13, 2012 Brutalized Malian publisher Saouti Labass Haïdara

Armed, masked assailants abducted and beat a veteran journalist in Mali on Thursday, leaving him with a broken hand and other injuries. And the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned “this brutal attack on Saouti Labass Haïdara and are deeply concerned that it comes in retaliation for L'Indépendant's critical reporting."

Nigerian gov’t condemns latest suicide blast at mosque

July 13, 2012

--WADR’s Correspondent on mood of nation

There has been another suicide bomb attack in Nigeria, this time a mosque has been hit in the northern city of Maiduguri on Friday.

The government of President Goodluck Jonathan has condemned the blast, which killed five people at a Mosque toward the end of Friday prayers.

WADR’s Abuja Correspondent Martins Martins says the targeting of the mosque came as a surprise to many.

Click full article below to listen to audio of Martins being interviewed by WADR’s Frank Sainworla on the Evening News show on Friday.

 

African jurists see fighting corruption as an uphill task

July 13, 2012 Corruption vs justice

The Association of African French-speaking Judicial authorities has stressed the urgent need to tackle corruption in Africa.

Fighting corruption was at the center of an international colloquium, which has just ended in Cotonou, Benin, which was held under the theme, "The legal and judicial systems of the French-speaking space against the problem of corruption."

Sales of infected blood rampant in Ivory Coast--officials warn

July 13, 2012 Ivorian health authorities alert the general public

Suy Kahofi/WADR Correspondent

Blood pouches not screened and believed to be contaminated are being circulated in the Ivory Coast by some unscrupulous individuals in the wake of the current blood shortage, sparking serious concerns by authorities of the National Blood Transfusion Center.