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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Somalia’s weak federal government which controls parts of the restive capital Mogadishu said it succeeded in stopping a fierce fighting which erupted yesterday between two northern Somali states causing heavy damages on both civilians and soldiers. The fighting which flared up in the city of Galkayo about 750 kilometers north of the capital was between [...]
In the Kenyan district of Kisii the elderly are falling prey to superstitious groups accusing them of witchcraft. The western district, which is mainly a poverty-stricken area is widely known to be Kenya’s sorcery belt, and has seen an increase in attacks from mobs on individuals and even killings. Those targeted are mainly [...]
The Al-qaeda inspired Al-shabasb militants in Somalia have seized five islands near the Kenyan coast, the group’s spokesman in the southern Jubba regions told reporters on Wednesday. Spokesman Sheik Hassan Yaqub Ali said that the Mujahideens have peacefully taken the five islands including Raskamboni and Kudha both two important hideouts early on Wednesday morning.
“We arrived [...]
