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UN chief urges “political will & leadership” to end conflicts

June 19, 2012 More conflicts, more refugees

--as 42 million forcibly displaced worldwide

Ahead World Refugee Day this Wednesday, June 20 the United Nations has said more than 42 million people have been forcibly displaced from their homes and communities around the world.

Polytechnic teachers in Ghana end strike

June 19, 2012 Lee Okran, Minister of Education, Ghana

After being on strike for nearly three weeks now, Polytechnic Teachers in Ghana have resumed classes, amid weeks of serious disruption in the  academic calendar.

Sierra Leone: EU gives US$6m for decentralization process

June 19, 2012 A road project of one of Sierra Leone's District Councils

The European Union (EU) has provided a grant of US$6 million to  support the Sierra Leonean government’s decentralization programme.

 

ECOWAS forces poised for early deployment in Mali

June 19, 2012 ECOWAS military chiefs meeting in Abidjan

--Senegal, Nigeria & Niger commit troops 

A sub-regional force code named, the ECOWAS Mission in Mali (MICAM) will shortly be deployed in the West African nation, "to stabilize and to strengthen" the institutions of transitional government in  Bamako, and also support the Malian army." 

Liberia rejects US human rights report as false, imbalance

June 18, 2012 L-R Presidents Sirleaf of Liberia and Obama of US

The Liberian government has rejected the latest US State Department 2011 report on the dismal human rights situation in Liberia, describing it as imbalance and a misrepresentation of the state of affairs in the country.

Expert says Senegal underutilizing agricultural potentials

June 18, 2012 Macoumba Diouf, DG ISRA

The head of an agricultural research institute in Senegal has said the country has no need to be facing food insecurity and relying on rice from abroad to feed its population.

“Do I look like a dead person?” -Mills denies Ghana rumours

June 18, 2012 President John Atta Mills of Ghana

Ghana’s President John Atta Mills proved rumour mongerers wrong over the weekend, when he appeared at the Kotoka International airport in Accra to dispel rumours of his death.

Sirleaf extends condolences to I. Coast, Niger for deaths in raids

June 17, 2012 President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia

Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has presented condolences to her Ivorian counterpart, Alassane Ouattara for the lost of civilian lives in the recent croos-border raids in the Ivory Coast.

Pan-African petition to ICC: prosecute Western powers for crimes

June 17, 2012 International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands

--stop the West from using court to “recolonize Africa”

A Pan-African delegation will on Monday, June 18, 2012 deliver a petition in The Hague, Netherlands, demanding that the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutes some Western powers and NATO for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Africa and Haiti.

West Africa’s democratic gains seriously reversing?

June 16, 2012 Dr Jibrin Ibrahim

Effectively dealing with crisis and growing insecurity is becoming a major challenge for many West African states nowadays.