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COP 17 climate change confab opens, Africa "victim and actor"

November 28, 2011 President Jacob Zuma, South Africa

South African President Jacob Zuma officially opened the UN climate change conference, COP17 in the city of Durban on Monday.

COP17 is the 17th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

 

'Ojukwo's death great loss to Nigeria,' says Goodluck

November 28, 2011 late Biafra es-warlord Ojukwu

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has described the death of the Ex Biafran warlord, Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu as a great loss to the Country.

 

Big increase in S. Leone budget to push infrastructural development

November 28, 2011 President Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone

The Sierra Leonean government of President Ernest Bai Kromah has increased the national fiscal budget, with more money being allocated to infrastructural development in 2012.

The President’s development platform code named, Agenda for Change will be entering its fifth year and the final year of his first term in office.

Liberia police chief sacked for "bloody Monday" incident

November 26, 2011 Marc Amblard, ex-directeur de la police nationale du Liberia

Liberian Police chief, Colonel Marc Amblard has been sacked, as a result of a recommendation of an independent panel which has just ended investigation into the November 7 clashes referred to locally as "bloody Monday" between the police and supporters of the main opposition CDC party, which left at least one person dead.

 

 

 

Guinea Bissau: 2 parties to boycott reonciliation confab

November 26, 2011 Ex-President Koumba Yala of Guinea Bissau

The Social Renovation Party of former Guinea Bissau President KoumbaYala and the Republican Party for Independence and Development will boycott the upcoming national reconciliation conference.

Gambia: Jammeh wins 72%, AU observers pleased, but opponent cries foul

November 25, 2011 Yahya Jammeh, président de la Gambie

Gambian incumbent President Yahaya Jammeh has won a landslide victory in Thursday’s election, getting a fourth term in office. But the main opposition leader has said the poll was not fair, while some international observers have given thumbs up to the conduct of the polls.

Togo Gov’t Urges Environmental Audits, Protection

November 25, 2011 Unconstrolled waste raising alarm

The Togolese government plans to improve upon the preservation of its environment.

US lawmaker’s call “recipe for disaster”, says Liberia Nobel Laureate Gbowee

November 24, 2011 Leymah Gbowee, Liberia Nobel Peace Laureate

The Chairman of the US House of Representatives Sub-Committee on Africa, Christopher Smith has called on Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf not to include Winston Tubman’s main opposition CDC party in a national unity government, warning “their inclusion in government would be detrimental to the progress of Liberia.”

But Liberia Nobel Peace Laureate, Leymah Gbowee has criticized the American Congressman’s call and has indicated that such a move would not be in the best interest of building peace and reconciliation in post war Liberia.

 

Gambia: Polls open, as opposition candidate debunks ECOWAS claims of intimidation

November 24, 2011 Hamat Bah, Gambian opposition candidate

By Frank Sainworla,Jr/WADR News

As polls open in Gambia’s presidential election today, Thursday, one of the two opposition candidates has criticized the boycott by the sub-regional bloc, ECOWAS, debunking its claims that politicians are being intimidated and the environment is not conducive for the polls in the West African nation.

Gambia says ECOWAS claim of unfair poll fabrication

November 23, 2011 President Yahaya Jammeh of the Gambia 

The sub-regional bloc, ECOWAS says it will not send observers to Thursday’s presidential election
in the Gambia, because the “preparations and political environment are not conducive for the
holding of free, fair and transparent polls,” but the Gambian government has described the 
claim as fabrication.