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Liberia: Sirleaf gets over 90% of runoff votes, but 37% turnout

November 11, 2011 Pres Johnson-Sirleaf voting on Tuesday

Polls kicked off as a one-horse race, because Winston Tubman of the main opposition CDC party challenging incumbent President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf had decided to boycott Tuesday’s Presidential runoff election.

But as it went, voters cast their ballots for both candidates.

 

ECOWAS says Liberia runoff poll free, fair,1st results due Thursday

November 10, 2011 James Victor Gbeho, ECOWAS Commission President

The ECOWAS election observer mission in Liberia urges Liberians to display patriotism and responsibility, in order to ensure respect for order and discipline during this critical phase of the country’s history, as it gives thumbs up to Tuesday's presidential runoff election.

 

Mali: High youth unemployment linked to rise in crimes

November 10, 2011 Zeini Moulaye

Global unemployment rate amongst young people from ages 15-24 is more than 13%, according to the International Labor Organization (ILO).

In the West African state of Mali, specialists attribute the rise in crimes to the high unemployment rate.

Police probe burning of private radio in Liberia

November 9, 2011 Marc Amblard, Liberia's police chief

Police in Liberia are investigating what caused a fire that partly damaged one of Liberia’s oldest private radio stations, amidst suspicion that the blaze was deliberately started.

But the Manager of Radio ELWA, run by a Christian evangelical mission, SIM, said he believed Tuesday night fire was arson and the work of “the enemy”.

"I think Liberians want peace," says Pres Johnson-Sirleaf

November 9, 2011 Pres Johnson-Sirleaf voting on Tuesday

“I think Liberians want peace, they want their basic needs met, and that will be our obligation and our commitment,” said Liberian incumbent President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf when she cast her vote in the one-horse race presidential runoff election on Tuesday.

Liberia: Single candidate election run-off amidst violence, media muzzling

November 8, 2011 Bloody Monday in Monrovia

Voting has begun in Liberia's presidential run-off despite at least one death during opposition protests Monday
and a boycott over fraud claims by opposition candidate, Lawyer Winston Tubman.

Nigeria: Boko Haram keeps Nigerian authorities on alert,US warns possible attacks

November 8, 2011 Boko Haram sect members

The federal Government of Nigeria has beefed up security over strategic points and installations in respond to the United States' security report of possible attacks on the capital Abuja by members of the Islamic Sect, Boko Haram.

AU gives US$100,000 to rehabilitate Ivory Cosat IDPs

November 7, 2011 Jean Ping, AU Commission Chairman

The African Union (AU) has approved  a US$100,000 donation to the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) to help rehabilitate internally displaced people 9IDPs) affected by the post-election violence in Ivory Coast earlier this year.

UNMIL confirmes casualty in Liberia pre-poll violence, but urges restraint

November 7, 2011 Ellen Margaret Loj, INMIL chief

The UN peacekeeping Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) has confirmed that there was at least one death in Friday's violence in Monrovia, involving security forces and supporters of the main opposition party, Congress for Democratic Change (CDC), on the eve of the November 8 presidential runoff election.

''There are reports from our people on the ground of several injuries and some casualties. At this point I can confirm one casualty, says Yasmina Bouziane, Spokesperson of the UN peacekeeping force.


 

 

 

Guinea lawyers on strike, one explains ordeal at Conakry prison

November 7, 2011

Lawyers in Guinea are on strike, after few of their colleagues were briefly detained allegedly on orders of the Governor of Conakry, Sekou Resco Camara, during a visit with clients at the prison compound.