Kenya Switches From Analogue to Digital Broadcasting
Nairobi, Kenya 9th Dec.2009 – Kenya has officially switched from analogue age to digital broadcasting with the launch of the digital terrestrial television broadcasting signals. Kenya becomes the second country in Africa after South Africa to switch to digital signal following today’s launch of terrestrial broadcasting at the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation, which has been licensed [...]
Assassination Suspect Captured At Guinea’s Border With Sierra Leone
Mohamed Camara, one of those suspected of attempting to assassinate the President of Guinea has been arrested while attempting to flee the country. He was the one in charge of security at the Koundara military camp where the president was shot in the head last Thursday. He was brought to Conakry, Guinea’s capital in handcuffs [...]
In Guinea: Junta Offers Reward For The Capture of ‘Toumba’
It has emerged from details coming out of Conakry the capital of Guinea, that more than one government official was shot at and wounded. There are reports that the number two in the junta regime, General Mamadouba “Toto” Camara, was also shot and wounded by renegade soldier Lieutenant Aboubacar Sidiki Diakite, and is also receiving [...]
Gambian Expatriates Protest Against Government
While the Banjul government puts on official parades, sporting events and musical entertainment to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the so-called culture coup of 22 July, 1994 that brought President Yahya Jammeh to power , expatriates in Washington, DC and New York City are staging protests against what they consider to be one of Africa’s [...]
Gabon’s PM Resigns To Run For President
Jean Eyeghe Ndong, Prime Minister of Gabon, said on Friday he had resigned in protest at his party’s choice of the son of deceased president Omar Bongo as presidential candidate and would stand against him in the poll. The ruling Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG) on Wednesday named Defence Minister Ali Ben Bongo as its official [...]
Nigeria releases rebel leader Henry Okah
One of Nigeria’s main rebel leaders, Henry Okah, has been freed from jail as part of a government amnesty. Mr Okah had been held for more than a year on charges of treason. He was said to be one of the heads of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend), but on [...]
Rebels In Nigeria Claim Lagos Attack
Nigeria’s most prominent militant group says it carried out an “unprecedented attack” on an oil tanker facility close to the main commercial city of Lagos. “The depot and loading tankers moored at the facility are currently on fire,” said the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend). Some officials have confirmed there was [...]
