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International Criminal Court trial of Kenyas president pushed back to November
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - The International Criminal Court has pushed back the start of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta's crimes against humanity trial until Nov. 12. The court announced the new start date Thursday. Judges ruled earlier this year that the trial scheduled to begin July 9 would start at a later date to give defence lawyers time to prepare. Kenyatta is charged as an ...
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Mozambique Armed Men Attacked Storeroom of FADM in Savane and Seven Soldiers Were Killed
A group of armed men, still unidentified, attacked in the early hours of Monday (17/06/2013) a storeroom of the armed forces of Mozambique (FADM) in the administrative post of Savane, in the District of Dondo in central province of Sofala. The attackers, who wore civilian clothes, killed seven soldiers of the FADM and stole arms and ammunition in unspecified amounts. According to the soldiers ...
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Liberia Grand Gedeans in Claims Counter-Claims
Grand Gedeh County Electoral District #3 Representative Alex Grant has accused the county's Superintendent Peter Solo of master-minding the arrest, detention and prosecution of 19 kinsmen charged with murder, rape and mercenarism, among others by the Government of Liberia. Representative Grant said Superintendent Solo has mobilized witnesses in Grand Gedeh to testify against the accused ...
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Liberia The World Is Noticing Liberias Steady Progress Government Unveils Reconciliation Agenda
About ten years ago, we agreed to start over. With the help of the international community, and the assistance of our sub-regional neighbors, from the safe surroundings of a neighboring Capital, Liberians hammered out a peace deal which impressed the world that we were ready to move ahead - ready to right the wrongs of the past; ready to lay firmer foundations for a brighter future; and ready to ...
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Liberia Weah Speaks On TRC Report
Liberia's Peace Ambassador George Weah says here that he will solicit views from Liberians on recommendations contained in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report to forward such views to the government, cleverly avoiding taking a definite stand on the controversial TRC findings and recommendations. The TRC, which ended its work in 2009, had recommended series of actions, including ...
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Liberia Seeking Solution to Peace
The search for peace and reconciliation is a continuous process in any postwar nation. In Liberia, the peace and reconciliation is on course, but largely stalled apparent due to lack of commitments on the part of certain political actors and stakeholders. Past initiatives intended to accelerate the process of restoring genuine peace and reconciliation crumbled because of apparent disagreement ...
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Liberia Unusual Trial - Four Different Courts to Try 19 Grand Gedeans
19 citizens of Grand Gedeh County indicted by the Liberian government on multiple criminal charges for their alleged roles in the Liberian-Ivorian cross border attack that left seven peace-keepers from Niger and four Ivorian citizens dead are to be tried in four different courts at the Temple of Justice. Legal experts say it is unusual in the legal profession for indictees to be tried in ...
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Liberia Beyond the Reconciliation Rhetoric - Weahs Peace Drive Must Put Words Into Action
FOOTBALL LEGEND GEORGE Manneh Weah finally embraced his role as Peace Ambassador Wednesday, displaying his FIFA Footballer of the Year Award to a roomful of journalists as he declared his intentions to work with all sides in the Liberian conflict in leading the charge to reconcile Liberia. WEAH IS undoubtedly the most popular Liberian on the face of the planet after spending 14 years of his ...
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Africa Memo to the Srf - Try Not to Kill Any More Ethiopian Peacekeepers
If you fight for or sympathise with the SPLM-North and the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF), you might argue almost any place in South Kordofan is a legitimate military target, Kadugli included. You might say the SPLM-N's shelling of the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) logistics base and Joint Border Verification and Monitoring Mission (JBVMM) headquarters, which ...
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Africa AU Chair Complains of Timing of Tax Discussions at G8 Summit
Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Chairperson of the African Union, congratulated G8 countries for taking issues of tax and transparency seriously, particularly with reference to African countries. However, she questioned why such discussion "always take placed at the end of the G8" suggesting that the issue warrants a more central focus. This had seemed likely when British Prime Minister ...
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Africa Former General Manager Reflects On His Time With the Fund
Jaramillo says deficiencies in financial management at the Secretariat were underestimated "Transformation has produced a more disciplined and effective Secretariat" Gabriel Jaramillo, who was a member of the High-Level Panel and who served as the Global Fund's General Manager from February 2012 to January 2013, has provided the Board with some reflections on his time working ...
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Gambia IMF Ends Two Week Review Mission to Gambia
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission led by Mr David Dunn had a two week visit to the Gambia and at the end of the visit convened a press conference in collaboration with the Central Bank of the Gambia held at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs in Banjul on Monday 17 June 2013. Consultative meetings were held to review the government's policy to ensure that they are in ...
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Africa Africa - Claim No Easy Victories
"Don't tell lies. Fight lies when they are told. Don't disguise difficulties, errors, and failures. Do not trust in easy victories nor in appearances. Practice and defend the truth, always the truth, to militants, leaders, and the people, whatever the difficulties the knowledge of the truth can create." - Amilcar Cabral, ...
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Africa Progress Report Describes Significant Changes in the Approach of the OIG
More attention will be paid to Secretariat processes and the work of other assurance providers OIG-Secretariat relations have improved In what it describes as a "sea-change," the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) said that it is moving away from its historical emphasis on country level grants towards "consulting engagements" focusing more on reviewing internal ...
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West Africa Gulf Of Guinea - Blend Of Central West Africa
Geographically speaking, the Gulf of Guinea is made up of the maritime area located in the western part of the African continent. It includes eight countries bordering the Atlantic Ocean - Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Sao Tome and Principe; with Angola and Congo as newest comers. In its broadest sense, the Gulf of Guinea covers a much wider political field ...
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Africa Secretariat Provides Quarterly Update On the NFM
Says allocation methodology approach needs to be better explained In April, the Global Fund Secretariat provided its first quarterly update on the new funding model (NFM) to the Strategy, Investment and Impact Committee (SIIC). The update could not be made public until after the Board meeting just concluded in Sri Lanka. In this article, we provide a summary of what the Secretariat said in the ...
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Liberia NIC to Sack 50 Employees
With seven and half years into the presidency, the internationally acclaimed first democratically elected female president of Africa, Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, is yet to put permanent lid on her avowed promises of putting Liberians back to work, creating employment opportunities. The unemployment gap is widening, something the government has conceded. Yet, a key institution clothed with the ...
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Mozambique Renamo Threatens to Block Road and Rail Traffic in the Center of Mozambique
Renamo, the largest opposition party in Mozambique, announced on Wednesday, June 19, 2013, that it will prevent road traffic between the Save river and Muxúnguè, and rail traffic in Beira-Moatize and Beira-Marromeu in the Sofala Province. Their claim is to impede the transport of arms and military equipment to the Gorongosa region where the party's leader Afonso Dhlakama is ...
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Obamas attitude towards Africa splits opinions
The 44th US president inspired millions when he told an audience in Ghana during his first year in office that he would help build prosperity in a resurgent sub-Saharan region many believe will be the world's next economic powerhouse. However, when he returns on June 26 for a tour of Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania – which will be only his third official African visit – he ...
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UNHCR Africa Refugee Crisis Overshadowed by Syria
GENEVA -- The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees says the plight of millions of refugees and displaced people in Africa is being overshadowed by the crisis in Syria. To mark World Refugee day, the UNHCR is appealing to the international community to remember that Africans who are forcibly displaced by conflict also are in need of support. The U.N. refugee agency reports there are ...
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Transit Fee Hikes in Brazil Scrapped Amid Volatile Protests
Leaders in two of Brazil's biggest cities have scrapped plans to increase public transportation fees, which triggered massive anti-government protests throughout the South American nation. Officials in both Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro announced their decisions Wednesday to revert back to the previous fares. Several other Brazilian cities had already canceled plans to increase transit ...
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Russia China Downgraded in US Trafficking Report
Trafficking in Persons report Wednesday, and Russia, Uzbekistan and China were automatically downgraded to the lowest Tier 3 ranking. In total, the State Department says 21 of the 188 countries in its report do not fully comply with minimum standards to address trafficking and are not making significant efforts to do ...
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ICC Moves Kenyatta Trial to November
The International Criminal Court says Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta will now go on trial November 12. The court announced the new start date Thursday, after granting Kenyatta's defense team more time to prepare their case. The trial had been scheduled to begin in July, but the court said there were delays in the prosecution providing evidence. Kenyatta is charged with five counts ...
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Bob Hewitt to face South African court
Former tennis doubles champion Bob Hewitt has been summonsed to appear in a South African court following allegations he sexually abused young girls he coached decades ago.South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority told The Associated Press on Thursday that the summons had been served on the 73-year-old Australian on Saturday.Hewitt was ordered to appear at Boksburg Magistrate's ...
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ACP-EU Assembly urges for democratization of African countries
MEPs and MPs from the African, Caribbean and Pacific states stressed that the Republic of Guinea and the Central African Republic must put an end to violence and promote dialogue and conciliation instead. MEPs and the MPs met in Brussels on 17-19 June for the 25th ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (JPA). Among the issues under discussion were the situation in Mali, violence against women and ...
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