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Liberia Liberias Legislative Branch Urged to Summon EPS Boss Over Terrorists Journalists
The Plenary of Liberia's House of Representatives have been asked to invite the Director of the Executive Protection Service (EPS) to answer to questions of terroristic threat against Journalists. Two separate communications were written by Representatives Munah Pelham Youngblood (CDC-District #9 Montserrado County) and Richmond Anderson (LP-District #12 Montserrado County). Defending ...
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Gambia A Fruitful Relationship
Gambia and Senegal share a lot in common. The two countries are without doubt one people, speaking the same language; brothers and sisters, sharing the same cultural norms and values and located within the same geographical area called Senegambia. The two countries are therefore bound to co-exist in the spirit of brotherhood at all times. This is precisely the reason President Jammeh has always ...
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Mozambique Vietnam - Mozambique Business Forum
Maputo - The Embassy of the Republic of Mozambique and the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry organized a Vietnam-Mozambique Business Forum, which will be held in the cities of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh, on June 11 and 13, 2013, respectively. The Centre for Promotion (CPI), in coordination with the CTA, the Cabinet of Accelerated Development Economic Zones (GAZEDA), the Institute for Export ...
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Gambia Mandinary - Councillor Speaks On Cattle Menace
The new Lamin ward councillor Mr. Ebrima D F Jarjou Wednesday declared his stance regarding the conflict brewing between the cattle owners and the women gardeners of Mandinary village during a short interview with this reporter at Brikama Area Council. Readers could recall that the women of Mandinary village and the Alkalo Mr. Faa Ceesay jointly expressed their dissatisfaction regarding the way ...
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Indian Brazilian Nationals Sentenced in US for Human Smuggling
A federal court in Houston, Texas, has sentenced an Indian citizen and a Brazilian national to three years in prison for smuggling illegal migrants into the United States. Kaushik Thakkar and Fabano Amorim were also given two years of supervised release when their prison terms end. Prosecutors say the two charged Indian citizens up to $60,000 each and conspired to smuggle them into the ...
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SaharaReporters Interview Exclusive Achebe A Celebrated Storyteller But No Father Of African Literature Says Soyinka
By SaharaReporters, New York Also: Why He Wished Achebe Had Not Written His Last Book; What He Told Ojukwu Before The War; Genocide, And Other Issues .Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has described Africa’s most well known novelist, Chinua Achebe, as a storyteller who earned global celebration, adding, however, that those describing Achebe as "the father of African literature" were ...
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Morocco to harness the wind in energy hunt
TARFAYA, Morocco (AFP) - Morocco is ploughing ahead with a programme to boost wind energy production, particularly in the southern Tarfaya region, where Africa's largest wind farm is set to open in 2014.The kingdom, which has no hydrocarbon reserves of its own, hopes to cover 42 percent of its energy needs with renewable sources by 2020, and has launched a plan to produce 4,000 ...
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Kenya Herders Disobey Police Orders Against Trading in Tseikuru
HERDER who had previously clashed with residents of Tseikuru district in Kitui, have defied measures put in place by local security authorities and ventured into area. A district security committee and peace meeting on Monday outlawed the use of panya routes by the pastoralist in taking their livestock for sell in Tseikuru markets. It was chaired by deputy County Commissioner Stephen Momanyi ...
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Liberia Woman Faints - During Police Sand Mining Raid
A woman who claimed to be owner of molded blocks Thursday fainted in the hands of residents of the 11TH Street Community after police confiscated several pieces of her blocks in a sand mining raid instituted by the Ministry of Lands and Mining. "Please don't carry my blocks. I have documents to prove that I molded these blocks from river sand," the weeping woman said as she ...
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Kenya Kenya May Soon Reap Millions From Its Forests Says Kefri Researcher
A scientist at the Kenya Forestry Research Institute has said the forests may soon earn Kenya millions of shillings when the carbon offset scheme begins. Researcher Chemuku Wekesa said the scheme will start once the development policies are set by the Environment ministry and discussions take place at the national and international levels. "The carbon trading business is big and will soon ...
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Kenya Kengen to Increase Power Output
Power producer Kengen plans to increase output to the national grid by 70mw by December this year to address the high national demand, managing director Eddy Njoroge said on Wednesday. The power will be supplied by the new Olkaria IV geothermal power plant which is part of the 280mw Olkaria complex, the biggest geothermal plant in the world. Njoroge said construction is on course with 50 per ...
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Gambia Industrial Tribunal Orders Little Star Co Ltd to Pay Plaintiff
Magistrate Jobarteh, chairman of the Kanifing Industrial Tribunal, recently entered judgement in favour of one Ansu Sanneh, who dragged his former employer, Little Star Co Ltd, to the tribunal for unlawful dismissal. In delivering his judgement, chairman Jobarteh told the tribunal that by a praecipe filed by the plaintiff, Ansu Sanneh, sought the following from the defendant: the recovery of ...
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In Zimbabwe Will Next Election Be More Peaceful
Host Scott Simon talks with NPR's Ofeibea Quist-Arcton about Zimbabwe's upcoming presidential election and efforts to alleviate its international ...
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Nigeria Rebels Could Face War Crimes Charges for Population Cleansing - UN Rights Office
Members of Boko Haram and other extremist groups in Nigeria could face war crimes charges for deliberate acts leading to ethnic and religious cleansing, the top United Nations human rights official said today. In a press briefing in Geneva, the spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Rupert Colville, reiterated calls on Boko Haram and other extremist ...
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NYT Morgue overflowing as Nigerias dirty war rages
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — A fresh load of battered corpses arrived, 29 of them in a routine delivery by the Nigerian military to the hospital morgue here. Unexpectedly, three bodies started moving. "They were not properly shot," recalled a security official here. "I had to call the J.T.F." -- the military's joint task force -- "and they gunned them ...
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Obama Focuses on Middle-Class Jobs
U.S. President Barack Obama says he is focusing on ways to help the American middle class make economic gains, to bring them in line with the economic recovery of big ...
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Gunmen Kill Iraqi Police Officer and Family
Officials say the gunmen gunned down an administrator for the al-Rasheed district Saturday, and also killed the police captain's wife and their two children. The attackers also killed at least one security officer nearby. On Friday, a series of bomb attacks targeted Sunnis in Iraq, including in Baquba, just north of Baghdad, killing 70 people and increasing fears of renewed sectarian ...
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Five held for explosives in Tanzania
Arusha, Tanzania - Tanzanian police said Saturday they have arrested five people in possession of explosives in the economic capital Dar es ...
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Africa At AU Summit Kerry Should Speak Out for a Free Press
May 16 - Honorable John Kerry U.S. Department of State 2201 C Street NW Washington, DC 20520 Dear Mr. Secretary: We are writing to bring to your attention the deteriorating state of press freedom in Ethiopia, where you will attend this year's African Union Summit. A vibrant press and civil society is fundamental to hold governments accountable and to ensure long-term development and ...
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Workers on illegal strike at chrome mine in S.Africa-union
By Agnieszka Flak JOHANNESBURG | Sat May 18, 2013 5:56am EDT JOHANNESBURG May 18 (Reuters) - Operations at a chrome mine in South Africa owned by chemicals group LANXESS have been suspended since Thursday after workers started an illegal strike over bonus payments, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said on Saturday. The dispute at the mine in Rustenburg, 120 km (70 miles) ...
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Microfinance in Madagascar helps small businesses buck the system
Madagascar 's southern Atsimo-Andrefana region. The work is hard, but in the past year, access to microcredit has boosted both her business and her hopes for the future."Before, I used to make 10,000 to 20,000 ariary ($4.50-9.00, about 3) a day. Now, with the credit, I can make double that amount," she told IRIN. "I can put my four [grand]children in school, buy some ...
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Africa AU Must Promote Justice for International Crimes
In an impressive show of strength, civil society groups from more than 30 African countries have called on African Union (AU) member countries to ensure that the AU promotes justice for grave international crimes In a letter to the foreign ministers of African Union member states which was sent in advance of the AU's 21st summit, the groups noted that recent strain in the African ...
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Africa Funding Nutrition - a Moral Imperative an Effective Investment
Paris - An international conference to fight child malnutrition called by UNICEF ended today in Paris with a call to hasten world progress on child nutrition and the funding for it. "The Paris conference produced a very strong consensus on responses to be made. It also marked an important step in expressing the political will to attack this scourge by governments, both in the South and the ...
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Africa Pastoralisms Economic Contributions Are Significant but Overlooked
Nairobi - Pastoralism is often regarded as an antiquated practice ill-suited to the modern economy, yet trade between pastoral communities in Africa - much of it informal and illegal - generated an estimated US$1 billion each year, according to a new book published by the Futures Agriculture Consortium,. "If we shift our gaze from the capital cities, where the development and policy elite ...
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Africa French Senators Take Back Message of Africas Road Map
A visiting delegation of French Senators is taking back a message to France and other European partners to align with Africa's road map for the next fifty years. The delegation was received in audience by the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, H.E. Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.They came with great interest to understand what the future holds for ...
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