UPND Launches Attacks On Mulusa and Kapita: Zambia
The United Party for National Development Vice President for Administration Richard Kapita is today expected to defect from the UPND to the ruling Patriotic Front (PF). Meanwhile, the website Zambian Watchdog has gone on rampage creating fake stories about Special Assistant to the President for Project Implementation Lucky Mulusa for allegedly convincing a number of […]
Boko Haram Kills 60 People In Borno State Attacks
Hundreds of residents fled from Kayamla and Balle villages to Maiduguri. More than 60 people were killed in the two villages, and some dead bodies were seen littered near the villages. At least 60 people were killed, including women and children, during separate attacks on two Borno communities by Boko Haram, residents said. Hundreds of […]
Laurent Gbagbo and His Ex-Minister Blé Goudé Trial Set for November
Arusha — The crimes against humanity trial of former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo and former Youth Minister Charles Blé Goudé is to start on November 10, the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced. The November 10 hearing will be only to hear the opening statements of the parties and participants, according to a Court statement on […]
World Bank to Support Regional Trade and Integration in West Africa
Washington — The World Bank Group’s Board of Directors today approved support for a regional transmission network to enable electricity trade among the western African countries of The Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau and Senegal. The US$200 million IDA* credit will finance the construction of transmission lines to connect the electrical networks of the four countries and […]
For the Future of Fisheries in West-Africa
In order to see fisheries reborn, West African States must take up their responsibility to eradicate all forms of illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, including a practice which is slowly killing a collapsing sector: the underreporting of Gross Tonnage (GT)! Rarely mentioned when discussing IUU fishing, under-reporting of the gross tonnage of some industrial […]
Guinea After Ebola – The Pain of the New Normal
Gueckedou — “Life is back to normal, but everything has changed,” said 30-year-old Yawa Keterine Camara as she slowly stirred a boiling cauldron of sauce outside her mud-brick home in southeastern Guinea. “I live again like before, but nothing is quite the same.” Camara, who lost her husband to Ebola in November, said her life, […]
Guinea’s President Plays the Ethnic Card
The incumbent head of state, Condé, who came to power in disputed elections in 2010, has given voters few compelling reasons to award him a second and final term in the presidential election scheduled for October 11. Both urban and rural poverty have increased during the president’s tenure according to his own finance ministry’s report […]
World Observes Anti-Homophobia Day, but Not Africa
Nations all over the world are observing Sunday a day of solidarity with gays and lesbians. But few African countries are celebrating the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. In fact, state-sanctionned homophobia is on the rise across much of Africa with Gambian President Yahya Jammeh recently stating that he would personally slit the […]
African Leaders Urged to Emulate President Jammeh
The President of the National Farmers Platform of The Gambia (NFPG), Alagie Bassi Mboge, has challenged African leaders to emulate President Yahya Jammeh’s footstep in boosting agricultural production and productivity. He described President Jammeh as a president with a difference whose ambition is to ensure that not only The Gambia becomes food self-sufficient, but also […]
Gambia Gets New Chief Justice
Information reaching the legal desk disclosed that Justice Emanuel O. Fagbenle has been appointed as the new Chief Justice of The Gambia, effective from Tuesday, 12th May 2015. Honourable Justice Emmanuel O. Fagbenle, a Nigerian-born judge who once served as the director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and as the president of the Gambia Court of […]
