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Guinea: New measures to beef up security

November 15, 2012 Pres. Alpha Conde of Guinea

Guinean authorities have announced new measures to beef up police and military presence nationwide in an ‘all out war’ against crime and insecurity.

Security Minister Mouramani Cissé told a news conference said the measures include nighttime roadblocks in Conakry, the capital, and across the country and provision of motorcycles to the security forces.

Liberia: OSIWA head stresses post-war healing

November 15, 2012 Abdul Tejan-Cole, OSIWA

The Executive Director of the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), Abdul Tejan-Cole, has said post-war reconciliation must continue as a crucial element to sustaining peace in Liberia.

OSIWA was a major funder of Liberia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) that looked into the causes, culprits and way forward in healing the wounds of the 14-year civil conflict that ended officially in 2003.  

Liberia Erects Memorial For Massacre Victims

November 15, 2012 George Boley's LPC Blamed for Alleged Massacres

The transitional Justice Working Group in Liberia in collaboration with its partners Wednesday dedicated a palava hut to the memory of dozens of people massacred in two villages in central Liberia during the country’s civil war.

There was a mass execution of at least 500 residents and displaced people in Kpolokpala and Samay in Bong County in 1994 allegedly by the Liberia Peace Council, a rebel faction then led by George Boley.

Senegal women launch fight against illegal migration

November 14, 2012 Illegal migrants being rescued by Italian Coastguard

A sizable number of Senegalese youths and nationals of other African states risk their lives on makeshift boats each year to cross the Mediterranean Sea headed for European shores in search of ‘a better life’.

In Senegal, women play a major role in encouraging their children and wards to make the journey in search of greener pastures, with some women even selling their valuables to assist youths take the journey.

Ghana, 100 other nations to miss MDG education target

November 14, 2012 Children, the target of MDGs 2

An official of the UN Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) says Ghana and some other Sub-Saharan nations will not achieve universal primary education by 2015, as originally targeted.

Professor Kwame Acheampong, UNESCO’s Senior Policy Analyst in Ghana, also said over 100 countries worldwide will not achieve basic education for all children by 2015 as part of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) number two.

Liberians target 1mn signatures for anti-gay petition

November 13, 2012 Liberian Pres. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf signing the Vision?

A campaign has been mounted to collect one million signatures to stop the lower house of parliament from approving a bill strengthening gay rights in Liberia. The bill was recently approved by the Senate.

As part of the campaign, hundreds of people opposed to same sex marriage took to the streets of the Liberian capital, Monrovia, at the weekend to demonstrate their discontent.

Parliamentarians in mass use of social media, says report

November 12, 2012 The Pan-African Parliament (PAP) sitting in Zambia

Parliamentarians around the world are going Online and getting more and more mobile technology friendly in the performance of their duties.

An Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and United Nations supported World e-Parliament report says lawmakers are using social media more and more to engage their constituents.

Tutu to pick up $1m Mo Ibrahim prize in Dakar

November 9, 2012 Outspoken Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Relentlessly challenging bad governance has made retired South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu the winner of a one million dollar prize from the Mo Ibrahim Foundation of one of Africa’s leading philanthropists.

The London-based foundation will tomorrow, Saturday, present the award to Archbishop Tutu in Dakar for fearlessly holding governments to account and being the voice of the voiceless.

Sierra Leone police arrest suspect in journalist’s murder

November 8, 2012 Journalist Ibrahim Foday

A suspect in the murder of journalist Ibrahim Foday, a reporter of privately-owned Freetown-based Exclusive newspaper, has been arrested by the Sierra Leone police.

Tunde Williams was picked up by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Police on.3 November at Kamakwei, a town in the north of the country.

 

Can Nigerian gov’t halt huge oil theft?

November 7, 2012 Nigerian oil pipelines vulnerable to theft

Nigeria, sub-Saharan Africa biggest oil producer, has continued to suffer huge losses in revenues from oil theft, the recent being a US$1.6 billion scandal.

President Goodluck Jonathan has vowed to curtail the losses, setting up the Petroleum Special Task Force led by the former head of the anti-graft agency, EFCC, Nuhu Ribadu.