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Liberia Several Top Govt Officials Snub LACCs Assets Verification Exercise
The Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC) has disclosed that several top officials of the Government of Liberia (GOL) have "deliberately refused to cooperate" with its Assets Verification Exercise. The LACC has the broad mandate to investigate, prosecute and prevent acts of corruption amongst other things (LACC Act of August 2008). Included in this mandate also is the mandate of ...
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Liberia Global Witness On Govt Back
The international watchdog, Global Witness, has challenged the Government of Liberia (GoL) to urgently address violations of Liberian laws recently published in a LEITI Audit Report. According to a Global Witness' statement issued Wednesday, 22 May 2013, the recently published LEITI Audit Report reveals significant violations of Liberia's laws that the Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf led ...
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Ghana TOR Crashes Out in Oil Deals
One of the reasons why the Ghanaian Italian Petroleum Company (GHAIP), which later became known as Tema Oil Refinery (TOR), was established in 1960, was to process crude oil for the Ghanaian domestic market. But, 53 years down the line, the refinery is in a sorry state as a result of mismanagement and failure to procure modern machines to replace the obsolete ones. As a result of this, many of ...
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Ghana TWN Blames Scale Mining Menace On Weakling Economy
Third World Network-Africa (TWN), an Accra-based a research and advocacy non-governmental organisation (NGO), has blamed the recent gangsterism and other challenges in the artisanal and small scale mining (ASM) in Ghana on a weakling economy. The NGO argued that if the Ghanaian and African economies were creating enough jobs, no citizen of African would have engaged in illegal scale small ...
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Liberia Secrecy in Oil Gas and Mining Conspires Against Economic Development
The lives of over a billion citizens could be transformed if their governments managed their oil, gas and minerals in a more open, accountable manner, according to the Resource Governance Index released by the Revenue Watch Institute. The Index measures the transparency and accountability in the oil, gas and mining sector of 58 countries worldwide and finds that the vast majority surveyed fail ...
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Ghana Ghana to Use UK Technology for Street Naming
Ghana will use Intelligent Addressing (IA) technology from the UK to name streets and properties in Ghana. Mr. Tony Black, an IA Consultant who participated in a recent workshop in Accra, told the Ghana News Agency in an interview at the weekend, that a national address gazetteer will be built alongside the street-naming project. He said IA employs the technique of Unique Property Reference ...
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Ten dead in Somalia after al-Shabaab clash with Ethiopian troops
About 10 people are believed to have been killed in clashes between Ethiopian troops and al-Shabaab insurgents in the Somali city of Beledweyn, officials say. The fighting began after al-Shabaab fighters opened fire on residents of a small town on the outskirts of the city, Shabelle Media Network reported Thursday. Ethiopian troops quickly arrived, causing the insurgents to retreat, said Isaq ...
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Doctors Without Borders Shuts Clinic in Northern Nigeria
ABUJA -- Aid organization Doctors Without Borders says it has suspended emergency health care in Borno State, Nigeria, - the heart of an insurgency now under assault by government troops. The decision comes after five gunmen hijacked an aid vehicle on Saturday. A couple of weeks ago, Doctors without Borders moved into Baga, a town where thousands of homes were burnt to the ground and hundreds ...
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Violence in Somalia scares investors aid workers
MOGADISHU, Somalia -; A spate of attacks by Islamic insurgents in Somalia's capital is forcing investors, businessmen and aid workers to have second thoughts about expanding operations in ...
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Suicide Bombers Kill 20 Soldiers In Niger Republic Nigeria Mounts Troops Across Borders With Niger
By SaharaReporters, New York Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), an Islamic group which claims to be committed to the enforcement of Shariah law in West Africa, has claimed responsibility for a twin suicide bombing attack this morning at the Nigerian/Niger border in which over 20 Nigerien soldiers were killed. A journalist in transit in the area told SaharaReporters that the ...
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Chinua Achebe remembered as fearless writer in uncertain times in Nigeria feted in hometown
Men ride a motor cycle taxi past a poster of late author Chinua Achebe, in Awka, Nigeria, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. People gathered Wednesday to celebrate the life of author Chinua Achebe, who died in March at the age of 82. His family plans to bury the literary icon Thursday in his home village of Ogidi. (AP Photo/Sunday ...
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Tunisia Salafist Movement Should Decide Its Position Regarding Violence and Terrorism- Prime Minister
Tunis - Prime Minister Ali Larayedh asserted that the Salafist movement should decide its position regarding violence and terrorism, calling it to abide by the law and the rule of law. "The Salafist movement should comply with the provisions of the legal organisation," he said to the press, on Thursday in Tunis, describing as "imprecise" the fact of blaming the religious ...
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Liberia Govt Silent Over Reported Sale of Japanese Donated Rice in Guinea
The Government of Liberia (GOL) through the Ministry of Commerce & Industry is yet to comment on the reported sale of a huge consignment Japanese donated rice to Liberia in neighboring Guinea. Last week, the Heritage, based on cogent reports obtained from officialdom, reported that the United Commodities Incorporated (UCI) recently sold huge consignment of the Japanese donated rice to ...
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Writer Chinua Achebe honored in Nigeria funeral
Men ride a motor cycle taxi past a poster of late author Chinua Achebe, in Awka, Nigeria, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. People gathered Wednesday to celebrate the life of author Chinua Achebe, who died in March at the age of 82. His family plans to bury the literary icon Thursday in his home village of Ogidi. (AP Photo/Sunday ...
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Shura Council Chairman Receives Bahraini Ambassador to Morocco
Manama, May 23. (BNA) -- Chairman of the Shura Council Ali bin Saleh Al Saleh has lauded the tremendous efforts exerted by the Kingdom's ambassadors to strengthen ties with brotherly and friendly countries and open up new horizons of cooperation in various fields. Speaking as he received here today Bahrain's Ambassador to Morocco Khalid Salman Jabr Al-Musallam, Al Saleh asserted ...
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Emmanuel and St. Chad reach deal to stay open
The 134-year-old College of Emmanuel and St. Chad will remain open with the help of other Saskatoon seminaries, reversing its plan to suspend operations for three years.A deal with the two other members of the Saskatoon Theological Union - St. Andrew's College and the Lutheran Theological Seminary - allows Emmanuel and St. Chad to reduce its budget and remain open for the 2013-14 academic ...
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Madamfo Ghana Commissions Classroom Block For Detieso Community
Madamfo Ghana Foundation, a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) from Germany, has commissioned a three-classroom block, with an office and store room, and Kindergarten block for the Detieso Community in the Bosome-Freho District of the Ashanti Region. The project was funded by Engagement Global (GIZ) NRW Germany at the cost of 24.000 Euros, the equivalent of GH60,000. Nana Anim Kokor II, Apewu ...
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Tunisia Enda - Launch of New BA Degree in Micro-Finance
Tunis - A partnership agreement to launch, for the first time in Tunisia, a BA Degree in micro-finance was signed on Wednesday between Enda Inter-Arabe (a pioneering NGO specialised in micro-credit in Tunisia) and the High Institute of Technological Studies (ISET) in Bizerte. "This is a new degree to be introduced in Bizerte's ISET while providing adequate training to students and ...
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Tunisia Court of Auditors Report On Management of Former IHAE Submitted to Prime Minister
Tunis - Interim Prime Minister Ali Larayedh received on Wednesday the annual report of the Court of Auditors on the control of financial operations of the outgoing board of the Independent Higher Authority for Elections (IHAE). The report contains remarks and proposals on good management of public money and the legislative framework regulating the election authority, First President of the ...
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Algeria Nation Tightens Control Over Religious Associations
Algiers - The Algerian government recently issued new regulations to cover religious associations. Faced with a legal vacuum, the interior and religious affairs ministries drafted new regulatory legislation to govern associations of a religious nature. The draft law will first be submitted to the government office, before making its way to parliament. The May 12th special legislation would ...
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Liberia Assets Declaration Ignored
The latest assets declaration report released by the Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC) on the verification of public officials' assets has exposed several officials who allegedly refused to allow their assets [already declared] to be verified by the LACC. The verification process by the LACC was intended to show the truthfulness of the assets that have been declared by officials of ...
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Tunisia Nation Jails Outspoken Femen Activist
Najjar in Tunis - Nineteen-year-old Tunisian feminist "Amina" was arrested in Kairouan on Sunday (May 19th). Tunisia's prosecutor ordered the arrest of the Femen activist after she tried to take off her clothes opposite Uqba Ibn Nafi Mosque. She was also reportedly seen painting the word "Femen" on a wall near the mosque. Interior Ministry spokesperson Mohamed Ali ...
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U.N. mine clearing work under way in Mali
An anti-land mine advocacy group said it would work with a U.N. stabilization mission in Mali to clear unexploded ordnance from the country. The U.N. Mine Action Service said it was preparing to deploy an African-led mission to work with the U.N. stabilization mission in Mali on mine abatement. UNMAS set up an office in Mali in January, the same month the government called in French support to ...
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Al-Qaida ally takes responsibility for Niger attack
Security officials in Niger are on the lookout for assailants tied to the bombing Thursday of a military camp, Niger Defense Minister Mahamadou Karidjo said. Karidjo said a car bomb was detonated at a military base in Agadez in central Niger, near the site of a French mining operation. Authorities in Niger told the BBC that several attackers died in the attack, though a fifth insurgent was ...
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Let’s Think Corporate Ghana First… To Consolidate Democratic Gains Ex-CPP Guru Urges Politicians
A former Regional Chairman of the Convention People's Party (CPP), Nana Osei Tutu Bonsu, has stressed the need for politicians to work and consolidate the gains of our democratic dispensation. He urged politicians to always think of Corporate Ghana first, instead of working on partisanship lines at the expense of the development of Mother Ghana. Nana Bonsu said in a chat with The ...
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Sudan and the South
In January of 2011 the future of Sudan as a unified country will be decided. A referendum is due to be held in South Sudan that will decide whether the regional government of the area, which accounts for around a third of Sudan, should break away from the rest of the country and become a fully-independent nation.
South Sudan has a long history of being at odds with the rest of the country and this conflict of interests has been attributed in Western media to the fact that northern Sudan is primarily Muslim and Arab dominated, whereas South Sudan is made up of indigenous African cultures and ethnicities, this view has been reinforced by the ongoing violence in Darfur, a region of Sudan where a genocide is occurring and has led to President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan being charged with war crimes by the International Court at The Hague, a charge that the government in Khartoum categorically denies. Read more
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