Guinea Junta Set to Accept Opposition Appointed Prime Minister
It has become apparent that Guinea’s Defence Minister Sekouba Konate has been able to convince wounded Head of State Moussa Dadis Camara to support the creation of a coalition government, with a Prime Minister appointed by the opposition. The Guinean leader, unable to talk at the moment gave a handwritten instruction to the Defence Minister [...]
Islamist Rebels in Somalia Threaten to Attack Ethiopia
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 [...]
Worsening Food Security Looms in The Horn of Africa
More than 16 million people in the Horn of Africa will spend the New Year in appalling conditions due to the worsening food security situation in the region. Estimates and reports from UN agencies, African governments and relief charities say the number at risk can no longer cope with such extreme and protracted situations. Climate [...]
China’s Foreign Minister to Visit Sierra Leone
According to a Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman, the Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi will pay official visits to five African nations and Saudi Arabia from Jan. 5 to 14 next year. The five countries include Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Algeria and Morocco, announced Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu here Thursday at a regular press [...]
Sekouba Konate Reveals That Dadis Camara is Incapacitated
Reports coming out of Rabat, the capital city of Morocco clearly states that Moussa Dadis Camara has become incapacitated and is unaware of his surroundings. This is the claim made by a senior Guinean official on anonymity. The official confirmed that Guinea’s Defence Minister and acting Head of State General Sokouba Konate has seen Dadis [...]
Cameroon Editor Jailed For Insulting President Biya
New York, December 29, 2009—A Cameroonian newspaper editor, jailed this month after publishing a book excerpt that alleged sexual activities by President Paul Biya, was convicted on Monday of “insulting the head of state.” Judge Ibrahim Ba sentenced Jean-Bosco Talla, managing editor of the weekly Germinal, to a one-year suspended term and a fine of [...]
Demonstration in Somalia as IDP’s Protest Against Water Shortage
Thousands of Internally Displaced People, IDPs, in Somalia on Tuesday took to the streets in protest against an ongoing water rationing and shortage in the country. The demonstration that lasted for hours took place in Afgoi and Mogadishu town according to officials. The lower Shabelle region in Somalia is in a dire need of clean [...]
Sekouba Konate Meets With Dadis Camara in Morocco
Guinea’s Acting Head of State, General Sekouba Konate, is in Rabat the capital of Morocco to see Guinean Head of State, Moussa Dadis Camara, who has been receiving treatment in the country following a gunshot wound he suffered during a failed assassination attempt on his life. Konate who is Defence minister, is making a visit [...]
Police in Sierra Leone Investigate NGO on Child Trafficking Allegations
Four members of a US-based non governmental organisation have been released on bail by the police in Sierra Leone after questioning them in connection with a child trafficking scandal. The police are investigating claims by 40 parents in the northern city of Makeni that their children were trafficked to the United States 13 years ago [...]
China Embarrasses Itself to The World as an Innocent British Man Is Executed
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 [...]
