(Source: ECOWAS - Economic Community of West African States) EBOLA REGIONAL SOLIDARITY FUND BOOSTED BY ECOWAS MEMBER STATES' CONTRIBUTIONS More ECOWAS Member States have announced financial contributions to the raise the total of the regional Solidarity Fund to fight Ebola to US$7.7 million. At the just-ended ECOWAS extra-ordinary summit in Accra on Ebola and Burkina Faso, Nigeria which had earlier contributed US$3.5 million to the Fund, pledged additional US$1 million and affirmed its willingness to make 500 health volunteers available to help fight the disease in affected...

Nigeria?s central bank on Friday tried to drawn a line under the naira ? but the market continues to increasingly bet on a devaluation after the elections set for early 2015. Currency traders said the Nigerian central bank intervened heavily on the foreign exchange a day after the naira plunged to an all-time law of ?170 to the dollar. After Friday?s intervention, the currency settled at ?165.75, down 2.5 per cent on the day.Read moreimg src=http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ft/beyond-brics/~4/8-rh_OFzGnk height=1 width=1/ (© The Financial Times Limited 2014)...

BENGHAZI, Libya ? Libya's Western allies on Friday expressed deep concern over political polarization in the North African country, a day after the country's supreme court declared the new parliament and government illegal. The United States, Canada and six European countries, including Britain and France, issued a joint statement urging Libya's rival parties to quot;cease all...

[IRIN]Hargeisa -The livelihoods of vulnerable families, including the poor and internally displaced, in the self-declared independent republic of Somaliland have been hard hit by steep rises in the price of charcoal, the main fuel for cooking in the region....

[IMF]A staff team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) led by Mr. Cheikh Anta Gueye visited Niamey from October 21to November 3, 2014, for discussions on the 2014 Article IV consultation and the fourth and fifth reviews of the program supported by the Extended Credit Facility arrangement (ECF). The discussions covered the implementation of the program as well as economic and financial developments in 2014, the medium-term outlook and the policies needed to consolidate macroeconomic stability and foster in...

[State Department]Following is the text of a joint statement on Libya by the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Malta, Spain, and the United Kingdom....

[Thomson Reuters Foundation]Bamako -Mali's opposition party is pressuring the government to make arrests in a $14 million corruption scandal over the purchase of a presidential jet and military equipment that has led international donors to suspend foreign aid....

Waakhe Simon Wudu JUBA? Members of parliament from the Equatoria region in South Sudan have urged President Salva Kiir not to sign into law the national security bill that was passed last month, warning that it could deepen divisions in the country. quot;This document has the potential to divide our people, which...

[UN News]The United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict expressed concern today about allegations circulating in Darfur local media over the mass rape of 200 women and girls in a town in region's North, calling on the Government of Sudan to allow immediate and unhindered access for an investigation....

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSML) said it had taken note of the decision of Libya's Supreme Court invalidating the election of the new Parliament.
Politics

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The sudden resignation of the Burkinabe President, Blaise Campaore, after 27 years in office, brought about by popular revolt, has again brought to the front burner the sit-tight syndrome among some African leaders.

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Not less than 16 people were killed and over 20 badly injured when an explosion went off in front of a bank Automated Teller Machine (ATM) as many queued up to collect money at Azare in northern Bauchi state on Friday, the lawmaker representing the area in the state parliament has said.
Society

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) ? Three opposition parties in Mauritania have formed a coalition with the goal of merging into a single party, sources informed about the political union told PANA Friday.

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda is set to offer two more helicopters to the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) before the end of November 2014, bringing the number of its choppers on peacekeeping operation in the country to eight, local media reported Friday quoting a military source in Kigali.
Society

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Expressing deep concern about press reports that dozens of women were raped last week in the restive Darfur region of Sudan, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Zainab Hawa Bangura, Friday called for immediate access to investigate those reports.
Society

Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Confederation of African football (CAF) on Friday released the list of footballers nominated for African Fotballer for the year.
Sports

Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - US officials have said that they are considering imposing sanctions on the groups fighting in Libya, to prevent the transformation of the war fuelled by foreign powers into a civil war.
Politics

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The work of the annual review of policy reforms, programmes and projects of the West Africa Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) has ended at the Grand Hotel in Bamako, PANA learned on Friday from a reliable source.
Economy

Le roi du Maroc, Mohammed VI, a estimé jeudi que l'autonomie était le "maximum que le Maroc puisse offrir" au Sahara occidental dont le Front Polisario revendique l'indépendance depuis 1975.

At least two people killed as supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi stage rallies in several cities.

  Le bureau exécutif national de l?URD se dit ne pas être surpris par le contenu du rapport définitif du Vérificateur général et celui de la Section des Comptes de la Cour Suprême sur les contrats d?armement et d?acquisition d?un aéronef au compte du Ministère de la Défense et des Anciens Combattants. Le parti voit [&]

Deux personnes, dont un étudiant, ont été tuées vendredi en Egypte lors de manifestations de sympathisants du président islamiste destitué Mohamed Morsi, ont indiqué des responsables de sécurité. Un étudiant de 19 ans a été tué lors de heurts dans la province de Fayoum, à 100 km de la capitale. Ceux-ci ont débuté après la [&]

Depuis les évènements malheureux de Kidal, au mois de mai dernier, le départ du premier ministre Moussa Mara est devenu un sujet de prédilection pour la presse nationale. Bien que les pronostics se soient avérés, à plusieurs reprises, aux antipodes des faits, il apparait cependant aujourd?hui que Moussa Mara n?a jamais été aussi proche de [&]

Un attentat à la bombe a fait plusieurs morts vendredi dans le nord-est du Nigeria, où larmée et les milices, accusées dexécutions sommaires, semblent dépassées par les islamistes de Boko Haram qui conquièrent une ville après lautre. Vendredi matin vers 10H30 (09H30 GMT) à Azare, dans lEtat de Bauchi, plusieurs habitants ont expliqué avoir vu [&]

Un corps exhumé dun puits en mars 2014 à Kati, près de Bamako, a été « formellement identifié » par des tests ADN comme étant celui dun officier malien disparu en 2013 après une mutinerie au Mali, a appris lAFP vendredi de source judiciaire. « Le corps de lofficier retrouvé (&) non loin de Kati, ville-garnison à 15 [&]

La mobilisation internationale contre lépidémie dEbola en Afrique de lOuest a réduit son retard sur le virus, qui poursuit néanmoins sa propagation, faisant des milliers de morts non comptabilisés dans un bilan déjà lourd, selon les autorités sanitaires. Au niveau continental, la Confédération africaine de football (CAF) a donné jusquà samedi au Maroc, pays organisateur [&]

Cette Marche Verte évoque le comportement civilisé adopté par le Maroc pour le recouvrement de son Sahara et la parfaite symbiose qui unit la Monarchie Alaouite et le peuple marocain.



Confirmé dans les droits inaliénables du Royaume du Maroc sur son Sahara par l'avis consultatif rendu par la Cou...

06 novembre 2014 : ferme discours du Roi du Maroc

Confirmé dans les droits inaliénables du Royaume du Maroc sur son Sahara par l'avis consultatif rendu par la Cour Internationale de Justice de La Haye le 16 octobre 1975, feu Sa Majesté Hassan II décida d'organiser la plus grande marche pacifiqu...

Il s'agit de la distribution de vivres aux retournés de la RCA, de la formation de l'équipe régionale de Gestion des Catastrophes (BDRT), la formation des moniteurs et la formation en premiers secours (PSBC).



Le Secrétaire Général de la région du Salamat, Rimadjibaye Nadjinangar réprésentant l...

Le bras-de-fer entre le Président tchadien Idriss Deby et la Banque Mondiale, longtemps considéré comme un manque à gagner pour le Tchad, s?est finalement soldé par une amitié inhabituelle. La BM vient d?octroyer un don à hauteur 9 milliards de FCFA au gouvernement tchadien pour l?épauler sur le...