African News

Sanctions imposed on Guinea

By Mariama Coker, Information Attache, MRU countries, Monrovia, Liberia. Following the September 28th massacre in Guinea/Conakry this year, the African (...)

| October 2009 | 407 views

Guinea: Military Rule Must End

I. OVERVIEW The killing of at least 160 participants in a peaceful demonstration, the rape of many women protestors, and the arrest of political leaders (...)

| October 2009 | 523 views

Guinea: 157 killed in military crackdown

Doctors treated hundreds of injured civilians in Guinea on Tuesday, a day after the army’s crackdown on a pro-democracy rally that a local human rights (...)

| September 2009 | 414 views

Swing, Africa, Swing!

To say that music is a part of life in Africa is an understatement. In many African cultures, music has a greater significance than human life. It is often (...)

| August 2009 | 1427 views

Obama urges good governance in Africa

In his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa since taking office in January, U.S. President Barack Obama on Saturday encouraged people in Ghana and elsewhere (...)

| July 2009 | 497 views

Banjul hosts first youth musical jamboree

By Mohammed Legally-Cole, PV Correspondent, Banjul. The 1st Sub-regional Youth Music Festival held in The Gambia on the 20th June 2009 ended (...)

| July 2009 | 917 views