From: George-Ramsey Benamba, GNA Special Correspondent in Abidjan, Ivory Coast

Abidjan, Jan 19, GNA - President John Dramani Mahama on Friday arrived in Abidjan, the Ivorian capital to participate in a day’s emergency Economic Community for West African States (ECOWAS) summit to deliberate on rising disturbances in Mali.

The three-hour service was organized to enable friends and sympathizers who would not be able to travel to Navrongo to commiserate with the bereaved family and to participate in the formal funeral and burial rites scheduled on January 25th and 26th in the Northern Region to do so in Accra.

The three-hour service was organized to enable friends and sympathizers who would not be able to travel to Navrongo to commiserate with the bereaved family and to participate in the formal funeral and burial rites scheduled on January 25th and 26th in the Northern Region to do so in Accra.

Accra, Jan. 19, GNA - The International Guinea Worm Eradication Campaign spearheaded by The Carter Centre has reached its final stages with only 542 cases reported worldwide in 2012.    

Accra, Jan. 19, GNA - The International Guinea Worm Eradication Campaign spearheaded by The Carter Centre has reached its final stages with only 542 cases reported worldwide in 2012.    

Though President François Hollande of France has the support of African nations in the region, his army’s fight to preserve a country divided leaves many saying he has overreached.

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Representatives of 58 civic organizations, including religious, legal and human rights groups, condemned what they called an escalating campaign against critics of President Robert Mugabe’s party.

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