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 | MFWA calls for legal action against Ghana Police | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The sub-regional rights body, Media Foundation for West
Africa (MFWA), has called on Ghana's Interior Ministry to do more towards ending
attacks against media workers by security men while calling for a suit against t
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e policeman who allegedly assaulted
Journalist Sammy Darko, MFWA said in a statement sent to PANA Friday.
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| 121 die in road accidents in Mauritius | | Port-Louis, Maurice (PANA) - A total of 121 people have been killed in road acci
dents since the beginning of 2009 in Mauritius,
according to official data provided at the launch of the campaign to raise aware
ness on road safety.
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| Mauritius vows to fight economic crimes | | Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The Bank of Mauritius and the Financial
Intelligence Unit, Mauritius' two biggest financial institutions, have signed an
agreement aimed at fighting economic crimes, particularly money laundering
and financing of terrorism, official sources told PANA on Thursday.
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| Gambia decentralises biometric ID system | | Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Gambia Biometric Identification System (GAMBIS) was
on Thursday launched in the Kanifing Municipal Area as the authorities work tow
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rd extending it to all regional capitals for easy access to the new identificati
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n card.
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| CPJ honours journalists | | Washington, US (PANA) - The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is honouring
four journalists for their courageous work under very difficult conditions.
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| Comoros sets up think-tank against maritime piracy | | Moroni, Comoros (PANA) - Comoros has set up a think-tank to devise a reprisal st
rategy against maritime piracy, said Lieutenant Colonel Ismael Mogne Daho, Direc
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or of the Rescue Operations Centre and Civil Protection, at the end of a meeting
of the Ministry of Defence, Customs Services and Multilateral Partners (ROCCP).
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| MFWA says Guineans live in permanent fear | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Accra-based sub-regional rights body, Media Foundati
on for West Africa (MFWA), Thursday decried the high level of impunity presided
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ver by Guinea's military junta, saying â?Guineans live in permanent fear,â? the
body said in a statement received by PANA.
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| US Senate expresses concern over â~missingâ? Gambian journalist | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The American Senate on Wednesday expressed concern over
the fate of â~missingâ? Gambian reporter, Chief Ebrima Manneh, saying the treat
ment of the journalist by Gambian authorities, â?will be considered in assessing
continued United States assistance for The Gambia,â? PANA reported.
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| UN calls for release of "missing" Gambian journalist | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The United Nations 'Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
' on Wednesday slammed the Gambian government, saying the continued detention of
Gambian journalist, Chief Ebrima Manneh, was "a Violation of International Law"
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hile calling for his "immediate release".
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| Nigerian NGO drags govt to African Commission over media bill | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The civil society group Socio-Economic Rights and Accoun
tability Project (SERAP) has petitioned
the African Commission on Human and Peoplesâ? Rights in Banjul, The Gambia, ove
r a controversial media bill currently being debated
at Nigeria's National Assembly (parliament).
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| EU to train 2,000 Somali soldiers | | Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The European Union (EU) is to train some 2,0000 Soma
li soldiers to support the Somali transitional government, according to an offic
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al communiqué made available to PANA in Brussels on Wednesday.
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| Nigerian military denies MEND's attack claims | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian military Joint Task Force (JTF) deployed to
the country's oil producing Niger Delta
region has denied attacking the Kula community in Rivers state, as claimed by th
e militant group Movement for the Emancipation
of the Niger Delta (MEND).
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| Migration and development fund for Diaspora launched | | Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The African Development Bank (AfDB), the French governme
nt and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (FIDA) have launched
a
migration and development to support Africans in the Diaspora, reliable sources
said on Tuesday in Tunis.
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| 7 journalists killed in three years in DR Congo | | Paris, France (PANA) - No fewer than seven journalists were killed in three year
s in the DR Congo, one of Africa's most dangerous countries for media workers, C
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ngolese journalist and writer, Freddy Mulongo, said in Paris, France.
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| Angry youths seize oil platform in Nigeria | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - About 100 youths have shut down the 25,000 barrels per d
ay (bpd) production platform owned by
indigenous oil firm Conoil, located six kilometres off the coast of Ilaje in Sou
th-west Ondo state, in protest against the alleged
non-implementation of an agreement between their communities and the oil firm to
facilitate a conducive working environment.
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| Number of Americans studying in Africa up 18% | | Washington, US (PANA) - The number of Americans opting to study in Africa has in
creased by 18 per cent,
higher than Asia (17%) and Latin America (11%), according to the Open Doors 2009
report, published annually by
the Institute of International Education, with support from the U.S. Department
of State's Bureau of Educational and
Cultural Affairs.
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| Nigeria's oil production rises to 2.4mpd | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - For the first time in over three years, Nigeria's oil pr
oduction has peaked at 2.4 million barrels per day,
thanks to a relative peace created in the Niger Delta oil region by the governme
nt's amnesty programme, government officials said.
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| Nigeria's President 'meets' MEND's team | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (ME
ND) said on Sunday the first formal talks between its â?Aaronâ? team and Nigeri
a's President Umaru Yar'Adua were held in the capital city of Abuja on Saturday.
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| DNA test results on victims of Yemeni Airways crash ready | | Moroni, Comoros PANA) - The results of the DNA tests conducted on the remains of
victims of the Yemeni Airways A310 plane crash will be released Monday, the hea
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of the Centre for Rescue and Civil Defence Operations (COSEP), Lieutenant-Colon
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l Ismaël Moegne Daho disclosed here on Saturday.
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| Libyan imams denounce rise in cost of pilgrimage | | Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Several imams in Tripoli have used their sermons on
the occasion of Friday prayers to denounce the rise in the fees for pilgrimage
to Mecca (Hadj), which has increased by 100% to 6,600 Libyan dinar this year
(about US$5,000) for each pilgrim.
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| Police manhandle, arrest journalist in Ghana | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Police officers in â?Waâ?, the capital of Upper West r
egion of Ghana, allegedly manhandled and detained James Donkor, a journalist wit
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â?Radio Progressâ?, a community radio, for taking a photograph of a man the po
licemen had allegedly tied to an electric pole, the sub-regional rights body, Me
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ia Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), said Friday.
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| Ex-apex bank governor arrested in Mauritania | | Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - A former governor of the Central Bank of Maurita
nia (BCM), Sid'El Moctar Ould Nagui, was arrested on Wednesday in Nouakchott, th
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capital, and kept in police custody, official sources told PANA Thursday.
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