Topic: News

The 10th Congress of the All African Students Union has ended in Accra, Ghana with a clarion call to all African students to unite to help the continent.

By Magnus Taylor, Royal African Society – Prof Stephen Chan, chairing this meeting, stated that this is a book of great importance. There is a tendency when discussing subjects such as land reform in Zimbabwe to talk about them without nuance. It is however important to develop our discussions in a more complex manner, recognising that – particularly in this situation – people are not dupes, and that there is much space for human agency and creativity. Crucially, in this example, discussion on land in Zimbabwe has largely been carried out by people who know very little about land. Professor... Continue Reading

By Gambia Correspondent – Lawyers representing Lt. General Lang Tombong Tamba, former chief of defence staff, and Rear Admiral Sajor Fofana, ex-chief of naval staff, yesterday told the Special Criminal Court that the defence has opted not to open their defence, but instead they chose to rely on the evidence adduced by the six prosecution witnesses. This development came up yesterday when the two accused persons were expected to open their defence on the allegations against them in connection with the 21st March 2006 aborted coup attempt allegedly masterminded by ex -CDS Col. Ndure Cham. The charges include conspiracy to... Continue Reading

By Olusegun A. Ogundeji – To boost water supply and proper sanitation in Sierra Leone, the country  has signed a US$19 million loan agreement with the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) in Vienna, Austria.  According to the Sierra Leone Embassy in Berlin, the money will be used to implement water and sanitation projects in the three provincial headquarter towns of Bo, Kenema, and Makeni. Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to Germany, HE Jongopie S. Stevens, who also doubles as Sierra Leone’s Permanent Representative to all UN Agencies including international organisations in Austria, thanked OFID for ‘the timely intervention to improve the... Continue Reading

By Kizito Makoye, Dar es salaam – Tanzania’s budget process lacks adequate transparency, leaving citizens in the dark about how tax and donor money are being spent, a new study suggests. Titled Open Budget Survey (OBS)2010, the study which was commissioned by a renowned Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) tracking governance and accountability Uwezo at  Twaweza last year indicates that the government  has virtually failed to manage public resources  well  and taken little action to respond to audit queries as required by the  country’s Controller and Auditor General( CAG). According to OBS Tanzania is not doing well in terms of public scrutiny of the... Continue Reading