By: Augustine N. Myers – The Liberia National Red Cross Society (LNRCS), with technical and financial support from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), has scaled up humanitarian assistance to thousands of Ivorian Refugees who fled post election violence and are now seeking refuge in Nimba and Grand Gedeh Counties. Initially, the greater number of Ivorians who fled into Liberia settled in the Luguatuo axis, north of Nimba county and closer to the Danane and Man regions in Western Ivory Coast. Considering the bonds of ethnicity... Continue Reading
MARCH 16, 2011 – Increasingly intense armed confrontations over recent weeks in Ivory Coast, together with political gridlock, have had serious consequences on the country’s population, the international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today. Fighting has led to new displacements of people in the capital, Abidjan, and in the western region of the country. Insecurity and shortages of medicine resulting from international sanctions have made it very difficult for victims of violence—and all those in need—to obtain care. Only one hospital continues to function normally in Abidjan’s Abobo district, home to approximately two million residents. The violence... Continue Reading
By Shout-Africa.com Gambia Correspondent – Another batch of Gambians on Friday breathes relief upon arrival at the Banjul International Airport after escaping the deadly unrest raging on in Ghadafi’s Libya, The Daily News gathers. Mass departures of foreign nationals followed the eruption of popular anti-government-protest-turned-civil war in the oil-rich North African country as thousands of Libyans took to the streets demanding their despotic leader, Ghadafi to leave office as Ben Ali of Tunisia and Hosni Mubarak of Egypt. The Gambia government is said to have allocated about twenty million dalasi to the foreign affairs ministry to facilitate the evacuation of... Continue Reading
By Aroun Rashid Deen – With international pressure already mounting on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and with the International Criminal Court now in the process of gathering information on civilian deaths in Libya, the Special Court for Sierra Leone and the International Criminal Court have a profound opportunity to indict Gaddafi for war crimes and crimes against humanity he has committed in Sierra Leone. The United Nations has already sanctioned Gaddafi’s government, and now it’s time his prior crimes in West Africa are brought to justice, too. Muammar Gaddafi was the mastermind and key financier of the brutal war that... Continue Reading
By Own Correspondent,from Cote d’Ivoire ,Abidjan, – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay warned Thursday that human rights violations against civilians in Côte d’Ivoire are escalating at both the individual and collective levels, citing daily killings in the past week. According to investigations conducted by UN human rights officers in the country, at least 392 people have been killed in Côte d’Ivoire since mid-December, including at least 27 in just the past week. “Overall, the situation appears to be deteriorating alarmingly, with a sharp increase in inter-communal and inter-ethnic confrontations,” Pillay said. “Human rights abuses, including rapes, abductions... Continue Reading
