Shaping Africa’s Future – 6th Africa Economic Forum 2012, Cape Town, South Africa
JOHANNESBURG, South-Africa – Global Pacific & Partners (http://www.glopac-partners.com) announce the Program for the 6th Africa Economic Forum in Cape Town, South Africa, 5-7 March 2012. Dr Duncan Clarke, Chairman & CEO, Global Pacific & Partners, says: “Our focus is on Shaping Africa’s Future, as Africa holds great commercial promise, its destiny to be unlocked by local and [...]
Security, political and traditional authorities on the alert as terror group Boko Haram infiltrates Cameroon
YAOUNDE, Ngala Killian Chimtom - (IPS) – Ahmadou Lamine has been forced to close his business selling fuel imported from Nigeria, known locally as “zoa-zoa”, because of the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram. Lamine, from Maroua, the capital of Cameroon’s Far North Region, ran out of stock after Nigeria temporarily closed its border with Cameroon’s northern region. The [...]
Spotlight on Senegal as students call for President Abdoulaye Wade to step down
DAKAR – Jedi Ramalapa - (IPS) – The friends of slain Senegalese student protester, Mamadou Diop, say that the 32-year-old master’s student was against injustice and that is why he was protesting against President Abdoulaye Wade’s bid for a third term of office. On Jan. 31, the opposition movement and local protestors, including students, gathered at the [...]
3 million children threatened by hunger in Niger
BOBOYE, Niger - Ousseini Issa - (IPS) – Women have been left in charge of many of the households in the village of Zamkoye-Koïra, in western Niger, as food shortages have driven male family members to leave in search of work elsewhere. A national survey of vulnerable households shows that 5.4 million people face food insecurity across Niger. ”The [...]
Violence in Senegal as President Abdoulaye Wade’s candidacy for re-election to a third term is controversially validated
DAKAR (IPS) – It was stones against tear gas in the Senegalese capital this morning as students protested the killing of one of their own on Tuesday evening. At least four people have died since Jan. 27, in wider demonstrations against the controversial validation of President Abdoulaye Wade’s candidacy for re-election for a third term. Protests [...]
The Kenyan Chief who tweets his way to crime reduction in his village
Daniel Sitole (IPS) – Using 140 characters or less, Chief Francis Kariuki in Kenya, has tweeted his way to reducing crime in his and surrounding villages. ”I have brought crime and illicit brewing under control in my location,” Kariuki told IPS, “until May 2011, this place was very dangerous. Incidents of carjacking, mugging and burglaries occurred [...]
Water shortage threatens wildlife in West Africa
OUAGADOUGOU (IPS) – The story of a pair of buffalo aggressively prowling the edges of a village in eastern Burkina Faso is a warning sign of severe water stress in the region which threatens humans and wild animals alike. People in nearly half of Burkina Faso’s administrative districts could face food shortages this year, and the [...]
Consumers have a right to fuel and forex black market in Malawi
LILONGWE (IPS) – The black market for foreign exchange and fuel is booming in the midst of an acute scarcity in Malawi. The shortage is so severe that even the Consumer Association of Malawi, an influential consumer rights body, has come out in support of the black market. Since September 2010, there has been an erratic [...]
No return ticket for foreign domestic workers in Jordan
Amman – When Moni Bakhti left her village in late 2010 heading for Jordan, she was apprehensive about the three-day trip and the long hours of waiting before reaching her employer’s house. She was also apprehensive about her employer and his family of total strangers. But she tried to curb her fears with day dreams [...]
‘Most ships that are Involved in arms and drugs trafficking are based in western countries’
More than 60% of ships involved in reported cases of sanctions-busting or illicit transfers of arms, drugs, other military equipment and sensitive dual-use goods that could be used in the development of missiles and weapons of mass destruction (WMD) are owned by companies based in the EU, NATO or other OECD states, according to the [...]
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