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Amnesty International urges new Arms Trade Treaty

June 12, 2012 There's an urgent need to control arms

Amnesty International says there’s an urgent need for governments around the world to agree on a comprehensive Arms Trade Treaty, when final negotiations take place at the UN in July.  

Ivorian govt. trying to prevent local firms going bankrupt

June 12, 2012 Kone Adama, DG of Ivorian Treasury

The government of Ivory Coast has set up a finance committee not only to facilitate the settlement of domestic debt, but also to pursue dialogue between suppliers/service providers and the country’s Treasury.

Women threaten to boycott polls unless given right to own land

June 11, 2012 Women demanding right to own land

---Sierra Leone women campaign against denial

A conference on women’s rights to Land and justice has ended in Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, with the launch of a nationwide campaign on Land rights, and a threat to withhold their crucial votes in the November elections if authorities fail to heed a key demand. 

Concerns mount over depreciation of Ghana currency

June 11, 2012 Ghana cedi

Ghana's currency, the cedi is depreciating against major foreign currencies, and this is affecting prices and the sale of goods and services in the country

Mali junta dissolved but members absorbed to crush rebels

June 11, 2012 Mali dissolved junt

Mali’s military junta of Captain Amadou Sanogo has been dissolved, an announcement by the interim authorities said in Bamako over the weekend.

 

Senegal “radical” feminist on why she’s on Muslim cleric’s list

June 11, 2012 Fatou Kiné Camara, Senegalese radical feminist

--as parliamentary polls campaign opens

After a hotly contested presidential election in March, Senegal is on the road to parliamentary election, which also promises to be a hotly fought political race.

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.

African Media Barometer finds standards are falling

June 10, 2012 Aafrican media barometer

The latest African Media Barometer (ABM) released shows that there are falling standards in the Journalism and entire media profession.

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.