By Alfred Tembo – ZIMBABWEANS are the best possible solutions to the country and continental challenges currently hampering progressive reforms that would put to an end to poverty and leadership crisis, said Minister of State Enterprise and Parastatals, Gorden Moyo. Speaking during a Ministers Forum that was organized by Gweru Agenda, Moyo said, “Currently Zimbabwe is under a spell of greediness, monopoly, leadership crisis, lies by leaders and corruption which has resulted in high unemployment rates, economic problems. “Solution to these problems is not in leadership or external intervention but in our minds, as Zimbabweans we can generate the much... Continue Reading
West African regional bloc ECOWAS said on Monday that it has slapped sanctions on leaders of Guinea Bissau’s military, who this month staged a coup in Bissau, threatening that it would use force to dislodge them, after talks in Banjul geared towards finding a lasting solution to the crisis in the country failed. “The rejection of the position of the Regional Contact Group means that the imposition of sanctions referred to above had kicked in at midnight on 29th April 2012,” a communiqué issued at the end of the meeting between ECOWAS, junta representatives and other stakeholders at the Kairaba... Continue Reading
By Shout-Africa.com Special Correspondent In Banjul – The seven-member ECOWAS Contact Group on Guinea Bissau together with stakeholders in Bissau including representatives of the military junta, political parties and others met yesterday at the Kairaba Beach Hotel, with a view to finding a lasting solution to the political crisis in the country. Convened by the Gambia government on behalf of the seven-member ECOWAS Contact Group on Guinea Bissau that consists of Benin, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Guinea Conakry, Nigeria, Senegal and Togo, the meeting also looked at the next steps in the resolution of the current crisis in the country... Continue Reading
…………The President of the Bar Association gave a press conference in Douala on April 21. – By Shout-Africa.com Cameroon Correspondent – Barrister Eta-Besong Junior has debunked claims that his stay in the office as President of the Bar Association two years after his mandate had expired is of his making. Eta-Besong, who was speaking at a press conference in Bonapriso, Douala, said it is the responsibility of the President of the General Assembly to convene an elective general assembly. The Barrister, who was elected President of the Bar Association in November 2008 for a two-year term together with members of... Continue Reading
By Shout-Africa.com Gambia Correspondent – The government of the Gambia has issued a news release condemning in the strongest terms the 12th April military coup in Guinea Bissau. The release informs ECOWAS member states, the African Union, the larger International Community and the people of Guinea Bissau that the Gambia is utterly dismayed by the brutal and forceful seizure of power by elements of the Guinea Bissau military from the democratically instituted and the legitimate government of Guinea Bissau. The release described the coup as a despicable act which it says is becoming a habit in the sister country. It... Continue Reading
