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• Egyptian Government Accused of Crimes against Humanity as Two African Migrants are Shot Dead By Police
  February 5, 2010 | 9:43 am

  Two African migrants trying to find their way into Israel have been shot dead by Egyptian border police.  This makes it four, the  number of African migrants killed this week by the ruthless Egyptian police force. It is a clear case of Egypt not accepting that it is an African country and sees itself more [...]

• Focus on Eritrea as Somalia and Ethiopia Appeal for Action
  February 5, 2010 | 8:51 am

  African leaders have condemned Eritrea for what they termed as “unfolding destabilizing nature” in the East African region. African Union leaders in their final day in Addis Ababa, said that the Afewerki’s regime is still busy with its negative activities in destabilizing regional peace and security. The governments of Djibouti and Somalia yesterday told the [...]

• Kenya Warns International Community Against Interfering in Sudan’s Referendum
  February 3, 2010 | 1:32 pm

  Kenya is calling on international community to support Sudan and help avert political violence in Sudan in the forthcoming referendum on independence for the Southern Sudan. In a press statement by Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s press unit, The PM warned the United Nations, the African Union and the USA against taking sides in the vote [...]

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• Malians Face Cocaine Charges in The United States
  January 1, 2010 | 1:59 pm

  Three men have been charged with plotting to transport tons of cocaine across Africa with the help of Al Qaeda. The three defendants all of them from Mali, were arrested in Ghana on Wednesday and flown to the United States on Thursday night. The men said that they were helping some [...]

• Islamist Rebels in Somalia Threaten to Attack Ethiopia
  December 31, 2009 | 12:47 pm

  Hezbal Islam an Islamist rebel movement fighting the Somali government vowed on Thursday to carry out attacks inside Ethiopia targeting military bases and government buildings. According to Sheikh Shuriye Afrah Sabriye, the group’s regional governor of Hiiraan region bordering with Ethiopia, Islamist forces are ready for a big war against Ethiopia, saying the attacks inside [...]

• Africa’s Man of The Year 2009
  December 31, 2009 | 10:03 am

  To be an outstanding citizen of an African country is not sufficient for anyone to be given the honour of being referred to as Africa’s Man of The Year. To have made an important contribution towards the enhancement of a better standard of living for your people and to have put the interest of your [...]

• China Embarrasses Itself to The World as an Innocent British Man Is Executed
  December 29, 2009 | 12:35 pm

  The brutal regime in China has shown the international community that it is the most vicious political makeup that the world has ever seen. The behaviour of the Chinese government leading to the execution of an innocent British man only goes to show why China is not respected across the world because of its human [...]

• A New Paradigm for Engaging Somalia
  December 28, 2009 | 3:37 pm

  The stakes are much higher than ever before. And, despite the negative reports that dominate the news and thus perpetuate the sense of hopelessness, voices of reason are becoming more audible against the current senseless violence, chaos and extremism. More and more Somalis are coming to realize that the path ahead leads nowhere except the [...]

• Liberia’s Information Minister To Face Embezzlement Charges
  December 28, 2009 | 12:03 pm

  Liberia’s General Auditing Commission (GAC) has found that the country’s Information Minister Laurence Bropleh, now suspended, defrauded the government to the tune of $358,000. According to reports coming out of the country, the audit commission has recommended that suspended Minister Bropleh makes restitution of the said amount and also faces prosecution. [...]

• Get Paid For Exposing Corruption – African Style
  December 24, 2009 | 1:54 pm

  In what is meant to be a desperate measure to discourage corruption in public office, the President of Liberia,  Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf  has issued a decree offering to pay and protect informants who would disclose activities of corruption directly to the government. With the new rules, anyone giving information leading to money being recovered will get [...]

• Sierra Leone’s NRA Boss Allieu Sesay Suspended Over Allegations of Financial Malpractices
  December 22, 2009 | 12:44 pm

  The head of Sierra Leone’s National Revenue Authority, (NRA) has been suspended from office with immediate effect pending investigations by the Country’s Ant-Corruption Commission. The Anti-Corruption Commissioner, Abdul-Tejan Cole said in a statement  “Commissioner General Allieu Sesay was invited by the Anti-Corruption Commission to explain financial irregularities as head of the National Revenue Commission,”  Allieu [...]

• UN Lifts Arms Embargo on the Liberian Government
  December 18, 2009 | 9:16 am

  The United Nations Security Council has lifted the arms embargo imposed on the government of Liberia citing that the country has made progress in the rebuilding of the country. The decision was made on Thursday and the embargo would be lifted for a 12-month trial period after which it would then be re-assessed. The statement [...]

• 2009: The Bloodiest Year for African Journalists Since 2000
  December 17, 2009 | 8:17 pm

  New York, December 17, 2009—2009 has been the bloodiest year for media professionals killed in the line of duty worldwide since 1992, and has seen the highest death toll for journalists in Sub-Saharan Africa in this decade, according to an annual analysis of media fatalities worldwide released today by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). [...]

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