By Correspondent Chinyere Ogbonna – The Nigerian government has been enjoined to see the need for an efficient social security and reform of the Nigerian police force as a panacea to address the recent surge in the nation’s security challenges as against calls for breakup of the country. This was the submission of ethnic groups in Nigeria at an emergency conference in Lagos. The conference organized by the Coalition of Ethnical Nationalities in Nigeria (CENN), last week to deliberate on the nation’s recent security challenges in the country. In attendance were representatives of sixteen ethnic groups, with each group airing... Continue Reading
8 July 2011: As South Sudan prepares to mark its official independence on Saturday 9 July, an estimated 260,000 newly displaced people continue to face emergency needs in what will be the world’s newest nation. This includes the 100,000 people who fled the mid-May bombings and fighting between northern and southern Sudanese forces in the transitional border area of Abyei. The majority of those fleeing the Abyei violence settled just a few days away, in the hopes that they could return when the violence had abated. However, those more fearful of further violence travelled up to 10 days to find... Continue Reading
By Gambian Correspondent – The party leader of the opposition National Reconciliation Party (NRP) Hamat NK Bah, is the latest to react to the campaign period allocated to political parties by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) for the forthcoming presidential elections, scheduled for 24th November 2011. The IEC last month announced that it would conduct the nomination of candidates for the forthcoming presidential election on Thursday 10th November 2011, and that campaigning will commence on Saturday 12th November 2011 and end on Tuesday 22nd November 2011, covering a period of 11 days. According to the NRP leader, who was speaking... Continue Reading
By Gambian Correspondent – The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) will this weekend conduct a correction voter registration exercise at the Dippakunda mosque registration centre, a statement from the Commission said yesterday. This development, according to the Commission, came as a result of the fact that the laptop got stolen, which the registration team assigned at the said area was using to register claimants. The Commission said prior to this unfortunate event, the senior registration officer for that area had already exported the information for that week (19th to 25th May) to a USB flash drive. However, the commission added, it... Continue Reading
By Gambian Correspondent Monitoring Developments at AU Summit in Eq.Guinea – The president of Equatorial Guinea and current head of the African Union launched a scathing attack on foreign intervention on the continent on Thursday, saying moves to defend human rights had instead deepened problems. Speaking at the opening of the AU summit he is hosting, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo also said the body was suffering financially and had to find its own funding to stop outsiders having to step in, and therefore have a say. Obiang’s thinly veiled criticism appeared to target NATO’s operations in Libya, a crisis... Continue Reading
