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Mali Ex-junta leader urges respect for peace deal

April 29, 2012 Mali coup leader Capt Amadou Sanogo

Following the ECOWAS meeting in Abidjan, Mali’s former junta leader, Captain Amadou Sanogo has called for all parties to respect the April 6 peace deal that said the interim President Dioncounda Traoré will rule for 40 days before the holding of elections, in line with the country’s constitution.

 

Dissenting Judge microphone switched-off at Charles Taylor trial

April 27, 2012

One of the four judges, an alternate judge, who convicted former Liberian President Charles Taylor on Thursday opposed the decision of the UN backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague.

Ivory Coast Election Officials Dissatisfied with Polls

April 26, 2012 Ivory Coast IEC Chairman, Youssouf Bakayoko and his team

The Independent Electoral Committee, (IEC) of the Ivory Coast is dissatisfied with polls it had the responsibility to organize to take the country out of a political deadlock.

Charles Taylor 'Guilty' of Crimes in Sierra Leone-UN Special Court

April 26, 2012

The UN backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague on Thursday declared former Liberian President Charles Taylor guilty of fuelling the civil war in neighboring Sierra Leone.

Liberia: Pres Sirleaf denies manipulating oil sector

April 26, 2012 Ellen Johnson, présidente du Liberia

There have been mounting speculation and claims that Liberian President of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was employing different kinds of tactics to manipulate Liberia’s’ oil and gas sector, to accrue personal benefits.

Mali: Diarra forms transitional gov't

April 25, 2012 Cheick Modibo Diarra PM Mali

Mali’s Interim Prime Minister, Cheick Modibo Diarra, on Wednesday formed a new cabinet composed of three representatives of a junta that toppled democratically elected President Amadou Toumani Toure in March.

Nigeria: Integrity test; fuel subsidy probe Report sent to court

April 25, 2012

From the floor of the National Assembly and the Public domain in Nigeria, the test of integrity sparked by the fuel subsidy probe Report is now set to reach the country’s courts.

 

Taylor’s trial verdict awaited; ‘Pray for peace in Liberia’-Pres Sirleaf

April 25, 2012 Former Liberian President Charles Taylore à la Haye

The Liberian government is calling on its citizens to remain calm and peaceful, on the eve of the judgment due to be handed down on former President Charles Taylor by the UN backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague.

Ouattara vows to bring perpetrators of atrocities to justice

April 24, 2012 L-R Ex-Pres Gbagbo, Bedie and current Pres Ouattara

Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara has declared that his government would bring to justice perpetrators of the Duekoue massacre and other atrocities during the country’s armed conflict.

ECOWAS special summit on Guinea Bissau called off

April 23, 2012 Guinea Bissau soldiers after the coup

The ECOWAS extraordinary summit which should have been held on Guinea Bissau in Conakry on Monday has been postponed.

WADR’s Conakry Correspondent says the meeting was called off, due to objection by one of Guinea Bissau’s presidential candidates, Kumba Yala over his rejection of Guinean President Alpha Conde being mediator.