The Daily IIJ

  The ACP and ACP-EU councils of ministers meeting held in Burkina Faso from 17th-22nd June, has signed the revised ACP-EU partnership agreement that is aimed at eradicating poverty and supporting sustainable development and the gradual integration of the ACP states into the world economy.

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  As part of its project to facilitate the implementation of the Girls Making Media Project, Plan Sierra Leone in collaboration with IMASS Production offered two days training to 140 beneficiaries (75% girls and 25% boys) at the Pastoral Centre, Makeni over the weekend.

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Director of the World Bank in Sierra Leone, Engelbert Gudmusson Monday bade farewell to President Ernest Bai Koroma and introduced his successor, Vijay Pillai.

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As the Sierra Leone government continues to engage the United States government to see reason and return the 1,200 carats of diamonds allegedly smuggled out of the country by some US jewelers in 2009, it is unlikely the government will get back the precious stones as the U.S. state department says America does not have [...]

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The Resource Forum of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria under the leadership of Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky has condemn the recent attempt by the Israeli embassy in Nigeria, in justifying the Israeli military’s recent attack on the Gaza-bound Flotilla humanitarian aid convoy. “All peace loving people across the world must condemn the Nigerian Israeli embassy’s attempt [...]

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By Nuruddeen M. Abdallah, who was in Accra. Ghana, one of the West African countries with a vibrant textile industry, is gradually joining the league of other nations in the sub-region with collapsed textile and garment manufacturing sub- sector. From over 40 textile firms that employed more than 25,000 people in the last two decades, [...]

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With less than a year to the next general elections, political activities in Kebbi State, a hitherto peaceful state, is now taking a violent dimension with the various political camps in the state leaving no stone unturned to score political goals. The speculated ambition of President Goodluck Jonathan, Sunday Trust findings revealed, seems to have [...]

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By Nuruddeen M. Abdallah The on-going politics along regional lines is capable of destabilizing this country; the Arewa Youth Forum has said. The executive council of the forum, which met in Kaduna yesterday, disclosed this after a meeting that discussed the ongoing political situation in the country. In a statement signed by its National President, [...]

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Kenya Prime Minister Raila Odinga has been admitted to Nairobi Hospital suffering from fatigue.

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The counsel for the United Democratic Party (UDP) Campaign Manager Femi Peters has applied to file written brief on behalf of the applicant before Justice Emmanuel Amadi at the High Court in Banjul on Monday 28th June 2010. When the case was called, lawyer Ousainou Darboe told the court that the records from the lower [...]

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