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Guinea Bissau President dies at 64

January 9, 2012 President Malan Bacai Sanha, ex-président de la Guinée-Bissau

Guinea Bissau’s President Malan Bacai Sahna is dead.He was 64.

His death comes after a protracted illness.

Nigeria mass strike holding as air and sea ports shutdown

January 9, 2012 Protest against fuel subsidy removal

The labour movements in Nigeria on Monday commenced nationwide strike and mass rallies bringing all sectors of the economy to a halt.

West Africa Democracy Radio (WADR) Abuja Correspondent reports that the airports, seaports and all the country's downstream sectors are shut.

President Wade's Bodyguard Undergoes Police Probe

January 7, 2012 Wade's bodyguard Baye Moussé Ba

A bodyguard to Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade was Friday questioned by police in connection with the death of a man shot dead during recent political clashes at a Dakar city council.

Bodyguard Baye Moussé Bâ was arrested and placed in police custody Friday along with Sémou Niakhar Diouf, former aid of Interior Minister Farba Senghor, and two others.

 

“Days of imperial presidency over”--Sirleaf promises again

January 6, 2012 President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberia

Just over a week before her second inauguration, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says the days of an imperial presidency are over in her country.

President Sirleaf, who last November won a runoff election boycotted by the main opposition CDC party candidate Winston Tubman, also said the days of an intrusive leadership and a domineering and threatening Chief Executive are over in Liberia.

Fuel subsidy removal biting Nigerian public workers

January 6, 2012 A scene from one of this week's Nigeria protest

The accumulative effects of the removal of fuel subsidy by the Nigerian government are becoming increasingly visible, with sudden rise in transport fares, food prices and the general cost of living in Africa’s biggest oil producing nation.

The Headquarters of the Federal Secretariat in the Nigeria capital, Abuja was virtually deserted on Thursday, as many Civil Servants shunned their duty.

Ghana police warn political trouble makers

January 6, 2012 Ghana Police Service logo

Amidst fears of the potential of political violence in the run up to this year’s elections in Ghana, the country’s Police Service has issued a stern warning to Politicians to desist from acts that would disrupt peace and order.

Francophonie Boss Visits Guinea to Unlock Political Deadlock

January 6, 2012 Abdou Diouf, Francophonie Secretary General

The Head of the International Organization of the Francophonie, former Senegalese President Abdou Diouf is on a 3-day working visit to Conakry in a bid to reactivate the polical dialogue in Guinea.

Leaders lack ‘political will’ for food security in Africa - new FAO boss

January 5, 2012 Jose Graziano da Silva, FAO new boss

The new Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, FAO, Jose Graziano da Silva has said the ‘lack of political will’ was the most serious impediment to achieving food security in Africa.

DRC gov’t suspends RFI broadcast over election coverage

January 5, 2012 CPJ logo

Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have shut down broadcast of the French government-funded Radio France Internationale (RFI) over its coverage of the aftermath of the November 2011 presidential elections, according to news reports.

Guinea to conduct population census

January 5, 2012

The Guinea government plans to conduct a general population census as soon as possible. The last national census, which was done in 1986, put Guinea’s population then at 9 million.