Charles Gbankay Taylor, former Liberian President, has testified at his war crimes trial in the The Hague that he never sent weapons to Sierra Leone. The trial has now finished its third week. Prosecutors in The Hague have accused former Liberian President Charles Taylor of 11 counts of war crimes allegedly committed during the [...]
ECOWAS, The Economic Community Of West African States is the regional body of West African States to promote economic, political and cultural unity amongst its members. It is made up of 15 West African Countries.
Website of ECOWAS
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President Mwai Kibaki announced that the Kenyan government will use the judiciary to deal with perpetrators of the 2008 post election violence. The announcement has been described as an affront calculated to shield cabinet ministers who are alleged to be behind the violence. President Kibaki announced Thursday after a long cabinet meeting that the [...]
Mohammed Yusuf, the leader of an Islamic sect blamed for days of deadly violence in Nigeria has been killed in police custody, police officials say. The news came just hours after security forces said they had captured Mohammed Yusuf in the city of Maiduguri. Mr Yusuf leads Boko Haram, which wants to overthrow the government [...]
The BBC will now be able to report from Zimbabwe for the first time in eight years after restrictions were lifted by the country’s government, according to a report in the Zimbabwe Times on Wednesday.
The report said the breakthrough follows meetings between the broadcasters and senior government representatives.
The BBC’s world news editor, Jon Williams, and [...]
The Kenyan cabinet met on Thursday in a third attempt to find consensus on forming a local tribunal to deal with the masterminds of last year’s post-election violence and thus avoid an international trial. The International Criminal Court (ICC) is ready to step in if Kenya’s coalition government does not create its own court to [...]
Malam Bacai Sanha, the ruling party candidate, has won Guinea-Bissau’s presidential election. It was a vote to replace long-time leader Joao Bernardo Vieira, who was killed by mutinous troops five months ago. Guinea-Bissau’s electoral commission says Sanha won Sunday’s second round of balloting with more than 63 percent of the vote.
Political observers in Bissau [...]
Security forces in Nigeria, have stormed the mosque where militants from an Islamic sect have been hiding out. Reports say scores of fighters were killed in the assault, which came after a third night of gun battles in the northern city of Maiduguri. Many of the militants have now fled, attacking police stations on their [...]
Microsoft and Yahoo have announced they are joining forces in a 10-year partnership that will combine their search and advertising resources to better compete with industry search leader Google. The two companies have been in talks for months about a partnership after a failed attempt by Microsoft to acquire Sunnyvale, California based Yahoo last year. [...]
Nigerian Police have freed more than 180 women and children from a house in the north of the country where they had been held by a radical Islamist sect. They said they had been held for six days and lived on dates and water.
They were rescued in Maiduguri, where heavy fighting continues between troops and [...]
A woman in Sudan due to appear in a court in Khartoum faces up to 40 lashes for wearing trousers. Lubna Hussein – a former journalist who now works for the United Nations – has invited journalists and observers to the trial. She was arrested in a restaurant in the capital with other women earlier [...]
