The Head of Public Affairs at the Ghana Immigration Service [GIS], ACOI Francis Palmdeti has assured the public that the security agencies alert to prevent any arms smuggling into the country with the introduction of new technologies. Speaking on Multi TV’s current affairs show, PM EXPRESS, Mr. Palmdeti said the GIS has installed CCTV cameras [...]
General News of Tuesday, 2 August 2011 Source: – Email this Share This Facebook Twitter reddit Google Bookmarks del.icio.us StumbleUpon Newsvine livejournal Mixx it! Print This Comments (3) « Prev Next » The Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General (DSRSG) of the United Nations Mission in Cote d’Ivoire (UNOCI), HE Arnauld Antoine Akodjènou, has [...]
Nigeria First (Abuja) 3 August 2011 President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has said the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, will hold a special meeting to discuss security challenges confronting Cote d’Ivoire. President Jonathan hosted Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara, at the opening of bilateral talks between Nigeria and Cote d’Ivoire, at State House, on Monday, [...]
General News of Tuesday, 2 August 2011 Source: – Email this Share This Facebook Twitter reddit Google Bookmarks del.icio.us StumbleUpon Newsvine livejournal Mixx it! Print This Comments (2) « Prev Next » The Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General (DSRSG) of the United Nations Mission in Cote d’Ivoire (UNOCI), HE Arnauld Antoine Akodjènou, has [...]
PRINT EMAIL FEEDBACK SHARE DUEKOUE, 1 August 2011 (IRIN) – On the 76km stretch of road between Man and Duékoué in western Côte d’Ivoire are several makeshift stalls where men in traditional hand-woven clothes, carrying hunting rifles and draped in amulets, keep watch. Read more: http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93378
Africa Report N°176 1 Aug 2011 The full report is currently only available in French. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS The coming to power of the elected President Ouattara should not mask reality. Côte d’Ivoire remains fragile and unstable. The atrocities after the second round of the presidential elections on 28 November 2010 and Laurent Gbagbo’s [...]
New Town(W/R), Aug. 1, GNA – Immigration officials at the New Town border near Half Assini, on Saturday detained 26 school children from Abrobeano in the Central Region who attempted to cross the border to Cote D’ Ivoire without the requisite travelling documents. The children, 17 boys and 9 girls claimed they were travelling to [...]
United States Department of State (Washington, DC) Stephen Kaufman 29 July 2011 Washington — President Obama told the leaders of Guinea, Côte d’Ivoire, Niger and Benin that the United States will be a “stalwart partner” as the four French-speaking African countries continue their democratization and development. Obama met with President Boni Yayi of Benin, President Alpha [...]
NAIROBI — The Japanese Embassy in Cote d’Ivoire, which closed in mid-April as fighting between rival militias escalated, will resume operations Monday, a Foreign Ministry official said. The embassy staff, currently working out of Paris, judged that they can return to the capital, Abidjan, because the security situation has improved since Alassane Ouattara formally assumed [...]
PRINT EMAIL FEEDBACK SHARE ABIDJAN, 25 July 2011 (IRIN) – The young men – one in a gendarme’s uniform, another in riot-police garb, his bare feet in boat shoes – recognize me from when I was in Côte d’Ivoire’s main city Abidjan in 2009Read more: http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93323
Enter your email address below to receive updates each time we publish new content.
Gryphon Minerals (GRY) Broker Calls Credit Suisse – BUY Deutsche – BUY RBC – BUY RBS Morgans – BUY Argonaut – BUY Eagle Research – BUY Alpha Broking – BUY Chart: Share price over the year to 04/08/2011 versus ASX200 (XJO) Gryphon Minerals (GRY), a West African focussed Gold exploration company with projects [...]
Health: Global Fund against HIV-AIDS resumes activities in Mauritania
Global Fund against HIV-AIDS – The Global Fund for the Fight against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria will resume activities in Mauritania after ‘a successful negotiation between the government and its partners,’ according to a statement from the Mauritanian ministry of Health. The resumption of funding will enable the country receive substantial resources estimated at about [...]
Mauritanian Football Federation elects new president
2011-08-01 Mauritanian football fans can look forward to new leadership in the sport as the country looks to rebuild its programme. By Mohamed Foily Samba Vall for Magharebia in Nouakchott – 01/08/11 [Mohamed Foily] For the first time in its history, Mauritania’s football federation held a competitive election for new leadership. The Mauritanian Football Federation [...]
Zimbabwe’s image problem: Facebook caning linked to human rights abuse
Zimbabwe clearly has an image problem. When we posted a note on Monday about the caning sentence for a Chiredzi boy who ‘slandered’ a local woman on Facebook, we sincerely thought two cane strokes was not a big deal. Really. For us the important thing was that someone had managed to get some kind of [...]
Kicked out of Zimbabwe, he’s now a top sportsman
I think with playing sport at an elite level comes a responsibility Pundits have touted him as a future Wallabies captain, which would be welcomed by Australian rugby fans who have delighted in his unfulfilled Springboks dream MELBOURNE — A child of evicted Zimbabwean farmers, David Pocock arrived in Australia with a few suitcases and [...]
Mugabe praises coalition government with rivals
Mugabe, who turns 88 on Tuesday, has ruled Zimbabwe since independence from Britain in 1980, but has shared power with Tsvangirai’s rival Movement for Democratic Change since 2009 under a coalition after violent and disputed elections. Despite the agreement, Mugabe and Tsvangirai have continued to fight over government posts and policy, including Mugabe’s drive to [...]