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Fleeing Ivorian refugees arrive in Liberia with horrifying stories

June 11, 2012 UN peacekeeping solider in Ivory Coast

After last Friday’s skirmishes in Western Ivory Coast, 17-year-old Ange Joel found herself cut off from her parents and streaming over the border into neighbouring Liberia due to what appears to be the latest eruption of hostilities in the West African nation.

RUF ex-rebel faces trial in Freetown for "witness tampering"

June 9, 2012 Former Liberian President Charles Taylor in court in The Hague

The Sierra Leone Special courtroom in Freetown will on Monday, June 11 be the venue of a contempt trial former RUF rebel member accused of attempting to tamper with prosecution witnesses, who testified against convicted former Liberian President Charles Taylor.

 

 

Ivorian troops also killed, plus 7 UN peacekeepers

June 9, 2012 People continue to be displaced by the Ivorian conflict

After seven UN peacekeeping soldiers were killed in southwestern Ivory Coast near Liberia’s border on Friday, Ivorian defense minister has said a number of government forces have also been killed in an ambush believed to be carried out by dissidents.

Preventing, combatting rise of terror networks in West Africa

June 8, 2012 Dr Bacary Samb on preventing Islamic militancy

Transnational violent networks have drastically increased in Africa over the years, with the fruits now being clearly seen in the likes of Ansar Dine in northern Mali and Boko Haram in Nigeria.

Arrested ex-Gbagbo Defence chief now under probe in Abidjan

June 7, 2012 Moise Lida Kouassi, detained ex-Ivorian Defense Min

The former Defense Minister under former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo, Moise Lida Kouassi is on Thursday facing interrogation in the main city, Abidjan after his extradition from Togo on Wednesday.

Ghana police seize cache of weapons en route from Ivory Coast

June 7, 2012 L-R Presidents Mills of Ghana and Ouattara of Ivory Coast

By Kofi Agyepong/WADR Correspondent

Ghana’s police say they have seized a big quantity of weapons entering the country from neighbouring Ivory Coast.

A statement from Ghana police service today said the weapons include AK-47 rifles and other dangerous weapons, which were on board a truck.

 

Liberia rejects HRW claims regarding Ivorian dissidents

June 7, 2012 President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia

The Liberian government has denied Human Rights Watch (HRW) claims that it has failed to investigate and prosecuted dozens of Liberian mercenaries and Ivorian militants who crossed into Liberia, after allegedly committing war crimes during Ivory Coast post-election crisis.

 

HRW says armed Ivorian militants recruiting children in Liberia

June 6, 2012 FLASHBACK child soldiers during the Liberian civil war

Human Rights Watch (HRW) claims that armed militants hostile to the Ivorian government have been recruiting Liberian children inside Liberia.

The New York based rights group in a report released on Wednesday that Liberian authorities have failed to investigate and prosecute... 

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. 

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 .