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There were fears at the weekend that the multi-billion dollar Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline project being midwifed by Nigeria, Algeria and Niger is now a target for sabotage by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND).
In Senegal's Casamance region one youth remains missing five days after armed men attacked a group of people collecting cashews, one of the region's main cash crops.
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, 70, should be barred from holding public office for 30 years for abetting atrocities committed by one of Liberia's armed rebels, according to Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).
Three African countries yesterday signed an accord to build a $10 billion trans-Saharan gas pipeline linking vast reserves in Nigeria to Europe.
The African Union is ending its co-operation with the International Criminal Court for charging President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan with war crimes. Al-Bashir is accused of alleged atrocities in the Darfur region.
Discussions at the 13th Ordinary Session of Heads of State and Government, ran well into the early hours of Friday morning, as Leaders deliberated in marathon sessions to reach consensus on crucial issues which earlier threatened to stall the sessions. The issue centered on procedural matters affecting the agenda as well as the question of sovereignty as the leaders discussed an African Union ...
A day ahead of this year’s African Union summit in Libya, the 11th meeting of the forum of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) took place in the sweltering seaside town of Sirte. Reports emerging from those who attended threw up few surprises and some lingering concerns.
In Africa billions of dollars from oil, gas and mining revenues go missing, leaving populations dependent on international assistance, according to a new report on natural resource use on the continent.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Liberia has finally concluded public hearings and submitted a report of its works with recommendations.
The Board of Directors of the World Bank has approved a total of US$535 million to support three credit facilities aimed at helping improve economic governance and stabilizing Ghana's economy.
John Morlu came to the position of Auditor General of Liberia with clean records and credentials having won the admiration of the President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf with the backing from the international community.
BASED on President Umaru Yar'Adua's request to the Revenue, Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) on February 10, 2009, on the need to slash the allowances of certain political, public and judicial office holders, the Commission yesterday announced some measures in this regard including the cancellation of the 300 per cent severance gratuity allowances of the President and the ...
A two-day sub-regional durbar, to deliberate on the issues of trade between Ghana and Burkina Faso, has been held at Navrongo in the Kassena-Nankana District of the Upper East Region.
After failing on two occasions to pass the much-talked about and somehow controversial Threshold Bill, the Liberian Senate yesterday concurred with the House of Representatives to pass the bill, but with modification and condition that no county get not less than two seats.
The search is on, presumably in earnest, for a replacement for the post of Inspector-General of Police (IG). The position will become vacant on July 24, as the incumbent IG, Mike Okiro, will retire on that day.
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa'ad Abubakar was right when he raised serious concerns recently over the growth of the menace of negative youthful exuberance, characteristic of miscreants generally referred to as Area Boys, in an otherwise peaceful state of Sokoto. The Sultan's alarm came while receiving in audience the new Police Commissioner posted to the state.
Most controversies, corruption cases, probes and other scandals in the country dominate the headlines and airwaves only for a period, and notwithstanding the seriousness of the issues at stake, they are soon forgotten and those involved walk away without as much as a reprimand.
The national rugby team, the Welwitschias, followed their disappointing 13-13 draw in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, with a quality and dominant 54-14 win at home in the return leg last week.
The Liberia National Police have been accused by a local church of being in cahoots with alleged robbers who reportedly robbed the church of over US14, 000.00
Reacting to public outcries relative to the reticence of the Liberian Government on the detention of Sekou Conneh in Guinea, former leader of one of the warring factions in Liberia, Information Minister Dr. Laurence Bropleh has set the record straight, saying that the detained Conneh is being treated as Guinean national and not a Liberian citizen.
An executive of the New Deal Movement, Professor Alaric K. Tokpa is suggesting and appealing to the National Legislature, Liberia's lawmaking boy, to consider making 'Torture' a crime in Liberia.
This paper has reliably learned that the President of the LIVING Faith Church Worldwide, commonly known as the Winners Chapel International, Bishop David Oyedepo will make an apostolic visit to Liberia from July 20-22, 2009.
As The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has come to the end of its mandate and made its report to the National Legislature, the Chairman on Reconciliation at the House of Representative, Representative Wesseh Blamoh of Grand Kru County has said the country is still far from achieving total reconciliation.
The Liberian educational system is said to be suffering from the shock of the decade-long civil war, an official of the Ministry of Education has said in Monrovia.
Activities of group of learned Liberians who called themselves “the progressive” have once again come under the microscopic spotlight of a Liberian journalist, James S. King.
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