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Cote d’Ivoire tackles post-conflict money laundering rise

November 9, 2012 US dollar bank notes

Ivorian authorities are developing a new strategy to combat money laundering that seeks to protect the construction industry and other businesses in danger of being infiltrated.

The Ivorian government has therefore reactivated the national financial data processing department to help track money launderers.

Senegal: Ex-president Wade’s son, officials face probe

November 9, 2012 Ex-Pres. Wade and son Karim

Karim Wade, son of former Senegalese president Abdoulaye Wade, and six other top officials of his government are facing probe for alleged corruption, the State Special Prosecutor has disclosed.

Karim and other former officials will be made to answer charges starting 15 November, Prosecutor Aliou Ndao confirmed in Dakar Thursday.

Nigerian gov’t seeks to up external debt

November 8, 2012 Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Nigeria finance minister Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala says the government is seeking approval to increase the country's external borrowing from US$7.9 billion to US$9.2 billion.

Dr. Okonjo-Iweala, a former World Bank vice president, said the federal government also plans to float a one billion Euro bond and another one hundred million dollar Diaspora Fund.

Sierra Leone police arrest suspect in journalist’s murder

November 8, 2012 Journalist Ibrahim Foday

A suspect in the murder of journalist Ibrahim Foday, a reporter of privately-owned Freetown-based Exclusive newspaper, has been arrested by the Sierra Leone police.

Tunde Williams was picked up by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Police on.3 November at Kamakwei, a town in the north of the country.

 

B. Faso: Malian rebel Ansar Dine commits to peace, relief aid

November 8, 2012 Members of Malian rebel group Ansar Dine

Burkina Faso Foreign Minister, Djibril Bassole, has urged Malian Islamist rebel group Ansar Dine to make good its commitment to a peaceful resolution of the crisis in northern Mali.

Bassole was speaking after he brokered an agreement with the rebel faction to allow humanitarian aid groups into its territory.

No tactile voting for Sierra Leone’s blind

November 8, 2012 S. Leone NEC Chair, Christiana Thorpe

Having voted in two previous elections using the Tactile Ballot Guide, blind people in Sierra Leone will not exercise their franchise independently come 17 November as the National Electoral Commission (NEC) has annulled the practice.

The TBG was first used in Africa on a pilot basis for the May 2002 presidential and parliamentary polls in Sierra Leone and the blind used it again in 2007, though limited to the capital Freetown.

Guinea: New electoral body chair assures fair, free polls

November 7, 2012 Guinea's CENI chairman Bakary Fofana

The new chairman of Guinea’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Bakari Fofana, has assured compatriots of holding free, fair and transparent polls.

Fofana’s assurance comes amid criticisms from opposition political parties and some civil society groups, for not being the right man for the job.


 

Can Nigerian gov’t halt huge oil theft?

November 7, 2012 Nigerian oil pipelines vulnerable to theft

Nigeria, sub-Saharan Africa biggest oil producer, has continued to suffer huge losses in revenues from oil theft, the recent being a US$1.6 billion scandal.

President Goodluck Jonathan has vowed to curtail the losses, setting up the Petroleum Special Task Force led by the former head of the anti-graft agency, EFCC, Nuhu Ribadu.

ECOWAS forum on regional vehicle insurance underway in Liberia

November 7, 2012 A scene of accident

The 29th General Assembly of the ECOWAS Brown Card Bureau opened Tuesday in the Liberian suburb of Paynesville, with a pledge by the host country to contribute significantly to the success of the sub-regional initiative.

The scheme provides compensation to victims of motor vehicle accidents, which may occur within the sub-region as well as insurance coverage for third-party liability relating to accidents resulting in death or injury.

 

 

S. Leone: 40,000 Voter Cards Still Not Collected

November 7, 2012 Sierra Leonean women display voter card

With about ten days to presidential, parliamentary and local council elections in Sierra Leone, the National Electoral Commission (NEC) says over 40,000 voter cards have not been collected by individuals.

Over 2.6 million voters are registered as the country goes to the polls 17 November using the Biometric Voter Registration for the first time.