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Ghana: Police chief assures public as 14m go to polls

December 7, 2012 Ghana Police Chief Paul Quaye

Nearly 14 million Ghanaians are voting today to decide who will become the next President of this West African nation, credited as one of Africa’s growing democracies and fastest growing economies.

Also at stake are the 275 seats in parliament, being contested by 1,300 candidates.

Ivorian women train as peace envoys

December 6, 2012 A group of Ivorian women refugees in Liberia

The Commission for Dialogue, Truth and Reconciliation (CDVR) in Cote d’Ivoire is partnering with the National Democratic Institute (NDI) on a national training targeting Ivorian women.

The objective of the exercise is to prepare the women to become ambassadors of peace in their communities.

Guinea: Trial of Conde’s attackers set for 10 December

December 3, 2012 Pres. Alpha Conde of Guinea

The trial of 33 people accused of carrying out an attack on the residence of Guinean President Alpha Conde over a year ago will begin on 10 December, according to the Public Prosecutor’s office.

One of the President’s bodyguards was killed in the attack which took place on 19 July, 2011.

Cote d’Ivoire: Gov’t indicted again on human rights issues

December 3, 2012 UN Under-Sec.-Gen for Human Rights, Ivan Simonovic

Cote d’Ivoire is once more under the spotlight for alleged human rights violations, with fingers being pointed at the government of President Alassane Ouattara for doing too little to curb abuses, improve the justice system and end impunity.

Of late, concerns over rights abuses have been raised by Amnesty International, International Crisis Group and independent expert of the UN on human rights issues in Cote d’Ivoire, Mr. Doudou Diene.

 

Many peace talks fail to address conflict roots - new study

December 3, 2012 Some fighters in DR Congo

A new study reveals that many peace negotiations complicate the future of state-building, because they fail to address the underlying causes of conflict, despite attaining peace in the long-run.

According to the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), this was the finding from experts' assessment of peace accords in selected African countries unveiled at a recent meeting in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare.

Some 65,000 Ivorian refugees still in Liberia

December 3, 2012 Ivorian refugees boarding trucks in Solo refugee camp

The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, says close to 65,000 Ivorian refugees are still in Liberia residing in five camps about two years after they fled post-election fighting in their country.

The Ivorians are being hosted in camps in Saclepea, Bahn, Solo, Dougee and Little Wlebbo, UNHCR Liberia Office spokesman Sulaiman Momodu told WADR in Monrovia at the weekend.

 

Liberia: Fears mob violence on the rise

November 30, 2012 Liberia National Police Insignia

In Liberia, there is growing concern in recent times over what seems to be an upsurge in mob violence in the post-war West African nation.   

The latest incident is the setting ablaze of an ambulance belonging to the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Liberia (UNMIL} by a group of angry residents of Paynesville, a suburb in the Liberian capital, after a fatal road accident.

 

Growing insecurity worries Nigerians

November 30, 2012 Nigerian Pres. Goodluck Jonathan

The growing insecurity in Nigeria caused by A wave of fatal bombings and shootings is leaving Nigerians increasingly worried that insecurity is reaching and alarming level..

Amid the fear and tension, some citizens are thinking that the terrorist group Boko Haram is outsmarting the country’s security forces, with Monday’s attack on the Police Special Anti-Robbery Squad in the capital, Abuja.

 

Ghana: Rawlings urges Ghanaians to guard peace

November 30, 2012 Ex-President Jerry Rawlings of Ghana

Former Ghanaian President Jerry Rawlings has cautioned his compatriots not to take the peace the country is presently enjoying for granted.

Rawlings was speaking at a ceremony in Accra, the Ghanaian capital, during which presidential candidates in the upcoming elections signed a peace pact.

 

S. Leone: Opposition urges calm, gov’t imposes curfew in Bo, Kenema

November 27, 2012 SLPP Flag bearer Julius Maada Bio

Losing presidential candidate in Sierra Leone’s 2012 elections, Retired Brigadier Julius Maada Bio of the opposition Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP), has called on his supporters to be calm and peaceful.

Bio, a former military head of state, told his partisans to exercise demeanour until the party takes an official position on the outcome of the 17November polls, the results of which he is challenging.