By Nawa Mutumweno, Reporting for Shout-Africa.com – The long-awaited COMESA Monetary Institute (CMI) meant to fast-track the realization of the regional economic bloc’s Monetary Co-operation Programme has commenced operations in March 2011. According to the latest COMESA e-newsletter, the monetary cooperation programme’s ultimate aim is to create the COMESA Monetary Union in the year 2018. The institute was officially launched on March 7, 2011 at the Kenya School of Monetary Studies in Nairobi. The creation of the CMI was decided by the 13th meeting of the COMESA Committee of Governors of Central Banks which took place in Cairo, Egypt in... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Saturday, March 19th 2011 |
Abyei, 4 March 2011- Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is currently responding to the consequences of fighting in various locations north of the disputed border district of Abyei, in Sudan. The latest outbreak of violence began on 27th February, some 20 kilometres north of Abyei town. Since yesterday, tens of thousands of people have fled the town, leaving it mostly empty. MSF’s priority is to be able to reach and treat all patients. The MSF hospital in Agok, 40 kilometres south of Abyei, received 21 wounded patients during the afternoon and evening of Wednesday 3rd March. All patients had sustained gunshot... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Friday, March 4th 2011 |
By Nangayi Guyson – Juba – South Sudan’s minister for rural development and co-operations Jimmy Lemi Milla has been shot dead. The southern army spokesperson said. The incident comes only days after referendum results confirmed that the region will become would become the world’s newest independent state on 9 July. South Sudan’s army spokesperson Philip Aguer said.”The minister was shot dead inside his ministry on Wednesday by a driver working at the ministry who also killed a guard at the door way and then shot himself.” According to”Reuters” news, three officials confirmed the dead minister was Jimmy Lemi. No motive was... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, February 9th 2011 |
By Nangayi Guyson – Southern Sudan who voted overwhelmingly with nearly 99% for independence have finally formed a new African nation, election officials confirmed on Monday. Southern Sudan Referendum Commission announced in Khartoum that 98.83% of the voters had backed independence confirming the spilt of Africa’s biggest country. Referendum Commission head Mohamed Ibrahim Khalil said.”Those who voted for unity were 44,888, that is, 1.17%. Those who voted for separation were 3,792,518, that is, 98.83%,” Earlier, Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir again said he would accept the outcome of the vote. We accept and welcome these results because they represent the will... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Tuesday, February 8th 2011 |
By Nangayi Guyson – Juba- “More the 30 soldiers have been killed in southern Sudan after two days of clashes among former pro-Khartoum fighters in the Upper Nile state against giving up their heavy weapons” , state officials said. The fighting around Malakal airport, close to the border with the north, began on Thursday when loyalists of Gabriel Tang, who commanded a pro-Khartoum force during the 1983 to 2005 civil war, objected to surrendering their heavy weaponry. The mutiny in Sudan’s army first broke out on Thursday in the politically sensitive southern town of Makalal. Twenty people were killed during heavy fighting,... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, February 7th 2011 |
