Inside Mali’s coup within a coup
Boubacar Haidara, Université Bordeaux Montaigne On the afternoon of May 24, the Malian transitional president, Bah Ndaw, and his prime minister, Moctar Ouane, were arrested by members of the arm...
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The Guardian Reports – Catastrophic’: Sierra Leone sells rainfor...
Britain’s most reputable newspaper, The Guardian, is reporting that the government of Sierra Leone headed by the notorious Kleptocrat Julius Maada Bio has struck a $55m (£39m) deal with the Chi...
The morally and democratically bankrupt president of Sierra Leone R...
Prior to the 2012 presidential elections in Sierra Leone, I was vehemently opposed to the candidature of Julius Maada Bio as the flag-bearer of the SLPP in Sierra leone for various reasons. And I war...
UK sanctions 22 individuals involved in serious international corrupti...
LONDON – PRN Africa –Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has announced the UK’s first sanctions under the new Global Anti-Corruption regime. sanctions target 22 individuals involved in n...
Tracking coronavirus in West Africa and beyond
BRUSSELS, 01 April 2021 – PRN Africa — Since the coronavirus outbreak, Elsi’s team have been using EU-backed SORMAS technology to track the spread of coronavirus in Nigeria. SORMAS ...
Torture in Sierra Leone as Opposition Politicians are attacked with im...
The government of Sierra Leone under the stewardship of the notorious coup plotter, dictator, and human rights abuser, Julius Maada Bio, have been increasingly trying to silence the opposition APC pa...
East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) will disenfranchise local comm...
The EACOP project risks driving East Africa further into unsustainable debt at the mere prospect of reaping meagre earnings with the only entities bound to benefit being the foreign oil companies KAM...
South Sudanese ‘one step away from famine’, as UN launches...
“South Sudan is facing its highest levels of food insecurity and malnutrition since independence 10 years ago”, said Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the UN Office for the Coordination of Hu...