The leader of putschists who ousted Mali’s president in March will retain the title of former head of state and all privileges coming with it, interim authorities and the West African ECOWAS bloc said Sunday, according to an AFP report. “Captain Amadou Sanogo has the status of former head of state. He will have all [...]
Workers in Algiers started laying foundations Sunday for what should become the world’s third-largest mosque, a one-billion-euro project that will include a dizzyingly tall minaret. The huge building in the capital Algiers will be built by the China State Construction Engineering Corporation and is expected to create 17,000 jobs — most of them for Algerians. [...]
Nigeria is dispatching 160 soldiers and 140 policemen to crisis-torn Guinea Bissau, where a coup on 12 April, halted the nation’s democratic transition and threw up a junta quickly denounced by West African leaders and the international community. There will be other soldiers from Burkina Faso and Senegal to make up the ECOWAS intervention force, [...]
Gay activists in Nigeria seem to have been emboldened by President Barack Obama’s recent endorsement of homosexual relationships, P.M.NEWS can reveal. In a press statement sent to P.M.NEWS yesterday, gay activists called on the Nigerian Federal Government and National Assembly to revisit their anti-gay stance and legislation for a better society. The National Assembly had [...]
Mary Kennedy, wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is dead. Suicide is suspected, in the death that was a culmination of the woman’s drug and alcohol problems. Being married to a Kennedy until two years ago, her death was not just another death, analysts want the world to believe. The news has created a buzz [...]
West African ministers will meet Saturday to discuss efforts to return Guinea-Bissau and Mali to democratic rule following recent military coups in both countries, the region’s main bloc of nations said. Ministers of foreign affairs and defence from the 15-nation Economic Community of West African States will attend the emergency meeting in Abidjan, ECOWAS said [...]
France’s new Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Thursday his priority would be to deal with the European debt crisis and that he wanted to push for a “different Europe”. “The priority is to disentangle the crisis in Europe, while at the same time making progress on the most urgent issues,” he told news channel BFMTV. [...]
