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Entries from May 2011

Protected: The City of Accra: Good Structures but High Cost of Living

May 31st, 2011 · Enter your password to view comments.

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Protected: Freetown to Accra in Search of Media’s Role in Conflict Transformation

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Environment Protection Agency and School Nature Clubs plant 500 trees for nature

May 30th, 2011 · 1 Comment

Ishmael Kindama Dumbuya As the World Environment Day is getting closer on the 5th of June 2011, the Environment Protection Agency and the School Nature Clubs in the city in collaboration with the Environment Forum for Action has undertaken the planting of five hundred Gmelina-aborea trees along the Western Area Peninsular Forest Reserve on the [...]

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Tags: Environment

Will Malta’s pro-divorce vote create a domino effect in the Philippines?

May 30th, 2011 · 2 Comments

MANILA, Philippines –Should the Philippines follow Malta’s footsteps and legalize divorce? Women’s groups and the Catholic Church in the country again found themselves at opposite sides of the fence.

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Tags: Gender Issues · Political reporting · Poverty

Khmer Rouge genocide survivor Sambath died

May 27th, 2011 · 1 Comment

Sambath Reach, Cambodian veteran journalist who survived the Khmer Rouge killing fields as an orphan to later become the spokesman of Cambodia’s war crimes court, died from a stroke on May 11. He was only 47.

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Convicted of treason twice, Tamba remains loyal to President Jammeh

May 27th, 2011 · No Comments

The erstwhile Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Lang Tombong Tamba and his compatriot, former Naval Chief Sarjo Fofana were in Court on May 23, 2011 for sentencing over charges of treason and related offences. After being sentenced to 20 years imprisonment by Justice Joseph E. Ikpala of the Special Criminal Division of the High Court [...]

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Tags: Political reporting

Confederation of African Football disbands WAFU

May 27th, 2011 · No Comments

At its meeting on May 16, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt, the Executive Committee of the Confederation of African Football, CAF made some decisions among them, the disbandment of the West African Football Association, WAFU. CAF intervened to postpone WAFU’s General Assembly in Banjul on April 9, 2011. “The General Assembly accepted a recommendation from CAF [...]

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CAF divided ahead of the Zurich-FIFA polls

May 27th, 2011 · No Comments

The Pan-African Football Body, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) has been divided with regards to the International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA) presidency contest. FIFA President Joseph Sepp Blatter and Vice President Mohammed Bin Hammam will go head to head on June 1, 2011 at the FIFA Headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland. Both candidates have [...]

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West Coast Radio Journalist Freed At Last

May 27th, 2011 · No Comments

West Coast Radio (WCR) sports producer and presenter, Bakary B. Baldeh has been exonerated of a charge on “conspiracy to commit felony” on May 24, 2011 by the Kanifing Municipal Court. Baldeh and Almamy Jagne of the Fajara Golf Club were acquitted and discharged by Magistrate Sheriff B. Tabally on Tuesday, however, Bakary Njie, who [...]

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Tags: Press Freedom

US measures imports and exports to Africa

May 27th, 2011 · No Comments

United States exports to Africa were $17.1 billion in 2010, while imports from the region were $64.3 billion, compared to $5.9 billion in exports and $23.4 billion in imports from Africa in 2000 prior to the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act, AGOA. In a statement ahead of this year’s AGOA Forum which is scheduled to [...]

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Tags: Economic Reporting