Archives - 14 july 2012
  • (Corrected) UN experts on enforced disappearances review 200 cases
    14 july 2012 18:26:58
    New York, US (PANA) - Independent United Nations human rights experts on enforced or involuntary disappearances reviewed more than 200 cases concerning over 30 countries during the session that ended on Friday. Full text...
  • ECOWAS committee on Baseline Information for key regional programmes held in Lagos
    14 july 2012 16:18:18
    Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A meeting of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Steering Committee to guide a two-phased study on the establishment of baseline data for evaluating key programmes under the regional five-year strategic plan for realising the Community's vision has been held in Lagos, Nigeria. Full text...
  • Gambia Gov’t asked to disclose income from sand mining
    14 july 2012 13:50:17
    Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Government of the Gambia should disclose the it generates from sand mining at Sanyang village, Kombo North District of the West Coast Region, says Mr. Omar Jallow (O.J), a former minister of agriculture in the first republic. Full text...
  • Killer tanker fire explosion, Jos mayhem, first woman chief justice reported in Nigeria
    14 july 2012 11:40:58
    Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The explosion of a fully-loaded fuel tanker, bloodbath in Jos and the appointment of the first woman chief justice were the major stories in Nigeria this week.Full text...
  • CPJ: Masked gunmen seize, assault publisher
    14 july 2012 11:02:14
    New York, Nigeria (PANA) - Armed assailants on Thursday abducted and beat a veteran journalist in Mali, leaving him with a broken hand and other injuries, according to the media watchdog, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has said. Full text...
  • Suffocating judgement debts fill Ghanaian media
    14 july 2012 10:35:19
    Accra, Ghana (PANA) – Revelations of suffocating debts that the Ghana government is saddled with, because of the abrogation of contracts, once again filled the media this week. Full text...
  • ICC issues arrest warrants for DRC rebel leaders
    14 july 2012 10:11:31
    New York, US (PANA) - The Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued an arrest warrant for Sylvestre Mudacumura, the head of a Rwandan rebel group, as well as a second arrest warrant for Congolese rebel leader Bosco Ntaganda, for alleged war crimes committed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Full text...
  • Ban appoints Migiro as new envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa
    14 july 2012 07:33:56
    New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Ms. Asha-Rose Migiro of Tanzania, former UN Deputy Secretary-General, as his Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, a UN statement said on Saturday. Full text...
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