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Observing Right to Know day
September 28, 2011Media rights activists and other pro democracy groups are on Wednesday holding various activities across the world to mark the freedom of information day.
Senegal still mourns, decade after Le Joola sank, killing hundreds
September 26, 2011Senegalese are today, September 26, remembering the day the nation was plunged into deep mourning in 2002, when the ferry, Le Joola sank in the Atlantic Ocean en route from the southern region of Casamance.
Empowering women is "smart economics"--World Bank Prexy
September 24, 2011World Bank President Robert Zoellick has said the world economy cannot meet its full growth potential, if it fails to advance the prospects of women.
He said empowering women is not only the right thing to do, but it’s also "smart economics".
Positive changes in Guinea Bissau, despite woes
September 21, 2011Whenever 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, 2011Amnesty 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."
Togo: Kpatcha, others to know fate Thursday
September 14, 2011The verdict in the treason trial of Kpatcha Gnassingbe and five others accused of plotting to overthrow President Faure Gnassingbe in an alleged attempted coup in April 2009, will be given on Thursday.
Prosecutors want “life” for Kpatcha, five others
September 11, 2011Togo’s Attorney General wants life imprisonment for Kpatcha Gnassingbe and five others over an alleged attempted coup in April 2009 to topple President Faure Gnassingbe.
Guinea: Rights groups denounce attack on Saoro farmers
September 8, 2011Rights groups in Guinea have denounced the action of security forces against the inhabitants of a village more than one hundred kilometers south of the capital, Conakry.
Togo’s truth commission opens public hearings
September 8, 2011Togo’s Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission has opened its first public session in the capital, Lomé and in the country’s other five economic regions.
ECOWAS chief in Abidjan to support Ivory Coast reconstruction
August 24, 2011A high-level ECOWAS delegation, led by Commission President James Victor Gbeho, is in Abidjan for talks with officials of the Ivorian government.
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