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Yayi Boni won about 75% of the votes on Sunday Officials in Benin have announced that Yayi Boni is the country's new leader. Mr Boni won almost 75% of the vote in Sunday's run-off presidential election with Adrien Houngbedji, the country's election commission said. He will be sworn in on 6 April to replace long-time leader Mathieu Kerekou, whose age...
By Jestina Doe-Anderson The Perspective Atlanta, Georgia June 14, 2006 The year 2005 was a momentous one for Liberian women, with two particularly noteworthy milestones: the historic election of Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf as the first woman president of Liberia, and the passing into law of a new rape bill. One can only hope that the former of these mutually...
TRC Visits 7 Of 19, Test of Truth & Reconciliation The woes of the nearly 15-year war in Liberia are enormous. Destruction of lives and properties was rampant and the perpetrators are yet to be punished and may not be. Women and children were maimed or killed, as hundreds, perhaps thousands were buried in mass graves in parts of the country. • Mass...
It is a known fact in Liberia that inefficiency runs deep in government. Successive governments, particularly in Liberia’s recent past, have had to grapple with this canker. Over the years, reorganization plans have come and gone, but the fundamental problem of inefficiency and mediocrity remains. This is why the President – Elect decision to get a...
MONROVIA, 14 Jun 2006 (IRIN) - The UN Security Council has voted to let weapons flow legally into Liberia for the first time since 1992 to arm the country’s newly trained police and security forces. The resolution, passed unanimously on Tuesday, said the move would enable Liberian security forces to “assume greater responsibility for Liberia’s national...
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Q&A at press conference with Presidents Paul Biya of Cameroon, Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria and UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Manhasset, New York, 12 June 2006 Q: Could you spell out for us exactly what this agreement includes, specifically about the timetable for the withdrawal of Nigerian troops from the peninsula? What was agreed concretely, Sir?...
UNITED NATIONS: Nigeria and Cameroon have settled a decades-old border dispute over the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula after intensive mediation over the weekend by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan. "The signing ceremony which has brought us together crowns a remarkable experiment in conflict prevention by Cameroon and Nigeria," Annan said. The...
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