The Daily IIJ

October 26, 2011 FROM Newton Sibanda in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ETHIOPIAN Prime minister Meles Zenawi yesterday opened the African Economic Conference (AEC) in the capital Addis Ababa with a call to developed countries to compensate African countries for the damage to their economies caused by global warming and for the services the continent renders in [...]

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October 26, 2011 FROM Newton Sibanda in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ETHIOPIAN Prime minister Meles Zenawi yesterday opened the African Economic Conference (AEC) in the capital Addis Ababa with a call to developed countries to compensate African countries for the damage to their economies caused by global warming and for the services the continent renders in [...]

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October 26, 2011 FROM Newton Sibanda in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia HEALTH deputy minister Patrick Chikusu says investing in research and development is the only way Zambia will be able to have access to low cost drugs. Speaking during the Fourth Stakeholder Meeting and Donors conference for the African Network for Drugs and Diagnostic Innovation (ANDI) [...]

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Severe flooding has hit Ghana’s capital city of Accra and its surroundings Wednesday morning following a heavy downpour last night.  Property worth thousands of Ghana Cedis have  been destroyed and the number of missing and dead is unreliable. Eight people were reported dead but the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) confirmed only two, as at [...]

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The inaccurate and unfortunate criticisms levied by some so-called Civil Society Groups on African Minerals has not gone down well with some traditional authorities, who served as a clear PC Musa Bendugu and his people testimony to effective and efficient work done by the mining company.

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Ghana today is a nation divided, paradoxically not along partisan political lines but along the lines of those who support the doctors’ current industrial action and those who do not. There is deep distrust as accusation and counter accusations are being hurled around. The President of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) Dr. Emmanuel Adom Winful, [...]

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Justice Without Borders for Migrants (JWMB) in collaboration with other Human Rights associations supported by the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) and Open Society Foundation, on Tuesday 18th October 2011, held a Press Conference on the subject “Spiral of Impunity Human Rights Violations Linked to Deportations and Refoulement of African Migrants” at the [...]

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The Police spoke person, ASP Yerro Mballow has on Monday 17th October told reporters that the case of Denis Wilgo Winter, (Dutch national) is not with them. Denis was charged along side eight convicted non-Gambian for the trafficking of cocaine.

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A pattern is emerging at the Anti Corruption Commission: a very disturbing pattern. We noticed it a long time ago. But we were not ready to talk about it. Even now we are not ready to expose it outright or we would be accused of fanning the flames of tribalism.

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The allege treason trial involving former communication Minister, Dr Amadou Scatred Janneh, Modou Keita, Ebrima Jallow and Michel Uche Thomas on Thursday 20th of October failed to proceed before Justice Emmanuel Nkea of the special Criminal court of the High Court in Banjul.

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