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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 .

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.

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. 

Poverty amidst wealth: craving for justice in Equatorial Guinea

May 31, 2012 Tutu Alcante, Exec. Director EG Justice

Although one of Africa’s richest nations, Equatorial Guinea wallows in poverty and underdevelopment, outside the glare of the world’s spotlight on dictatorial and corrupt governments.

Taylor Trial: A step away from impunity, a leap forward for justice?

May 31, 2012 Some amputees from the S. Leone war

Eleven years after the official declaration of the end of Sierra Leone’s civil war, Charles Ghankay Taylor was sentenced today to 50 years imprisonment by the Special Court for Sierra Leone sitting in The Hague. Taylor was unanimously found guilty on April 26 th , 2012 of all eleven counts of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and serious violations of international humanitarian law.