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Guinea Bissau: Analyst speaks on ‘coup’ claims

October 23, 2012 Ex.PM Guinée Bissau, Carlos Gomes Junior

At least seven persons were killed in a shootout on Sunday in Bissau, the capital of Guinea Bissau, highlighting that the West African nation continues to be volatile, some six months after a controversial coup removed the government of Carlos Gomes Junior.

The ECOWAS-backed interim government in Bissau has accused former colonial power, Portugal, the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries and ex-Prime Minister Junior of being behind the “coup attempt”.

 

Liberia: Multi-national firm, citizens still in pollution row

October 23, 2012 Rubber trees of Firestone plantation

The Firestone Rubber Plantation Company is the largest and oldest company in Liberia, starting operations in the country in 1926.

Since then, it has gone on to establish itself as one of the world’s leading rubber plantations.

S. Leone: Political rallies disrupt schools, commerce

October 23, 2012 SLPP partisans storm Freetown

Political campaigning ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections on 17 November is gaining momentum, but with adverse impact on schools and commercial activities in the capital, Freetown.

This is so when the two leading parties – the ruling All People’s Congress (APC) and main opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) – take to the streets.

Liberia launches cancer awareness campaign

October 22, 2012 Liberian women march against cancer

Liberia has launched a campaign to combat breast and cervical cancer and increase public awareness about the disease.

The head of the Liberia Cancer Society, Juanita Neal says people are needlessly dying from the disease in the country due to ignorance.

AU to deploy 40 observers for Sierra Leone polls

October 22, 2012 Au Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma

The African Union Commission has announced it will deploy 40 Election Observers to monitor Sierra Leone’s upcoming presidential and general elections.

The AU Observer Mission to the 17 November polls will be headed by a yet-to-be named former African Head of State, official sources disclosed in Freetown, the capital.

Mali: Growing anticipation of int’l intervention force

October 22, 2012 An armed Islamist soldier in the north

In Mali, there is a heightened anticipation of an African intervention force to be sent to the north of the country occupied by armed Islamist rebel forces since January this year.

This could be as a result of a high level international meeting held last week in the capital Bamako reportedly intended to consolidate plans for the deployment of the intervention force.

Cote d’Ivoire, Liberia reaffirm security ties

October 22, 2012 Pres. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf

The leaders of Liberia and Cote d’Ivoire have renewed their commitment to end insecurity along their common borders and promote a spirit of good neighborliness.

Presidents Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and Alassane Ouattara of Liberia and Cote d’Ivoire respective, made the commitment at the weekend during a working visit to Abidjan, the Ivorian capital, by President Johnson-Sirleaf.

EU provides 13bn CFA to fund Mali agric project

October 19, 2012 LAND PREPARED FOR FRAMING IN mALI

Mali may likely reach its ambitious objective of having 7,500 tons of crops grown during the rainy and dry seasons to boost food security and help reduce poverty in the West African nation.

Currently, some 2,500 hectares of irrigated land is being cultivated in Bewani in the region of Segou, with an investment of about 13 billion CFA Francs.

Nigerian Senate Passes Anti-terrorism Bill

October 19, 2012 Nigeria Senate Pres. David Mark

The Nigerian Senate has passed a new anti-terrorism bill in the wake of a wave of attacks by the Islamists Boko Haram militants in parts of the country.

The new anti-terrorism bill, which was passed on Thursday, amends the Terrorism Act of 2011, provides for the office of the national coordinator of all security agencies responsible to fight against terrorism.

Blogger speaks on Al Qaeda links to Mauritania shooting

October 19, 2012 Injured Pres. Aziz in hospital

Mauritania’s President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz recently took a bullet in the arm and was evacuated to France for medical treatment.

The authorities in Nouakchott have played down the incident, suggesting it was an accidental shooting at a military checkpoint outside the capital, Nouakchott.