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 […]
Senator Khalifa Zanna Dies At 60, After Battle With Liver Cancer
SaharaReporters confirmed from a family member that Senator Khalifa Zanna of Borno State died this morning. Senator Zanna had a prolonged battle with liver cancer, and had been receiving treatment in Germany and the United States. Senator Zanna’s son told SaharaReporters that the late Senator passed this morning while on his way to the National […]
Nigerian Military Reassures Alarm Over Marte
“Only occasional patrols and surveillance have been undertaken towards the area as the bulk of troops are engaged in the operation to clear the terrorists from all identified enclaves in the forest.” The Nigerian military has disclosed that Marte had been a deserted town before the recent reported incursion of terrorists in the area as […]
Boko Haram recaptures key town in Nigeria
BOKO Haram Islamists have recaptured the strategic town of Marte in northeastern Nigeria’s restive Borno state, a regional official said early on Saturday. “It is sad as we have been made to understand that Marte has today completely fallen under the control of the insurgents, which to us is a very huge setback,” said Mustapha […]
Benin: Midwives Could Help Avert Millions of Maternal and Newborn Deaths
“I have seen more and more women with child-delivery problems suffer needlessly,” said midwife Florence Djihoun, 48, at her UNFPA-supported clinic in Cotonou, Benin. Globally, complications of pregnancy or childbirth kill a woman about every two minutes. The majority of these deaths are completely preventable – and the remedies are well known. It is estimated, […]
