210-On 12 April 2012 the people of Guinea-Bissau and the international community were surprised by another coup d'état in Guinea-Bissau. There have been several since the country declared its independence in 1973.

426-Ebrima Cham, the head of a 10-man delegation from Gambia, on Friday, commended the federal government over the implementation of the Fadama programme.   Speaking on the Fadama programme - a project aimed at addressing poverty at the grassroots - Cham said that his team was impressed with the positive impact of the programme on the lives of members of the various communities visited by his team in Adamawa and other states.

301-THE PAST For over four decades the history of relations between Senegal and The Gambia was dominated by an almost exclusive focus on ways and means of crafting "Senegambia"; that is, the integration of the two states of Senegal and The Gambia into a single state. The experience falls into six phases.

420-CAMAC Energy, a US-based energy company, has entered into an agreement with the Gambian Ministry of Petroleum on the provisional award of two offshore exploration blocks, A2 and A5, in water depths of between 600-1,000 meters. CAMAC Energy will be the operator with 85 % interest in the blocks, which cover a total surface area of 2,666 sq km. Gambia National Petroleum Company will be carried at 15 % through first oil.

363-China and India may have to make bigger carbon emissions commitments as EU climate chief says Kyoto model is outdated Old divisions between developed and developing countries in who should lead the fight against climate change should be laid aside, according to ministers from some of the world's poorest countries and European representatives meeting on Tuesday.

345-Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said late Monday the west African nation will get high-speed internet from October, as it connects to a fibre optic cable running along the west African coast. She was speaking at a ceremony to open the Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) terminal in Monrovia which hosts the submarine fiber optic cable system.

481-IMAGE: Sandy Mattei models a design by Matilda Ceesay, a Cornell apparel design major from Gambia, at the Cornell Fashion Collective Runway Show, April 28. Click here for more information. ITHACA, N.Y. - A Cornell University scientist and designer from Africa have together created a fashionable hooded bodysuit embedded at the molecular level with insecticides for warding off mosquitoes infected with malaria, a disease estimated to kill 655,000 people annually on the continent.

400-This was the second time that St Helena had been invited to participate in a 20 over cricket tournament. But last time it had to turn the invitation down because it was impossible to tie up the trip with the ship's sailing schedule. This time, however, it was able send a team with the star of the team being Gavin George, 57, who was joined by his son David, 33. The youngest team member is only 15.

271-Press Release No:2012/433 16CA /PREM WASHINGTON, May 4, 2012 - The World Bank today presented the 2012 Jit Gill Memorial Award for Outstanding Public Service to Baboucarr Bouy, Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education of The Gambia.  "Mr.

451-"Once you have tasted the water of Mogadishu, you will always go back," the Somali novelist Nuruddin Farah told me during his recent visit to Nairobi en route to Somalia"s war-torn capital. Mogadishu has often been described as the most dangerous city in the world — "the world capital of things-gone-completely-to-hell," as author Mark Bowden put it. But I knew what Farah meant. Since I visited Mogadishu last year, I have yearned to go back.

392-WHITE PLAINS, Nueva York, 2 de mayo de 2011 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ -- Los bebés prematuros nacen a un ritmo más elevado en los Estados Unidos que en otros 130 países, incluso muchos países más pobres, según el informe recién divulgado Born Too Soon: The Global Action Report on Preterm Birth (Nacido demasiado pronto: el informe de acción global sobre el nacimiento prematuro).

120-Economic Community of West African States says sanctions went into effect on Sunday that target new military leadership.

293-West African regional bloc ECOWAS has imposed sanctions on Guinea-Bissau after talks in Gambia failed to reach an agreement to restore constitutional rule after a coup. ECOWAS said in a Tuesday statement the sanctions went into effect Sunday and target junta members who took power last month.

155-This article looks at the impacts of climate change on African forest ecosystems and forest-related sectors and the implications for rural livelihoods. ...

296-By Pap Saine BANJUL | Mon Apr 30, 2012 10:40am EDT BANJUL (Reuters) - West African regional bloc ECOWAS slapped sanctions on Guinea-Bissau's military rulers on Monday and threatened to use force to dislodge them, after talks to restore constitutional order in the coup-stricken nation broke down.

377-BANJUL (Reuters) - West African regional bloc ECOWAS said on Monday it had imposed sanctions on Guinea-Bissau after talks with the members of the military junta, aimed at restoring constitutional order in the country, broke down. "These are targeted sanctions against junta leaders and diplomatic, economic and financial sanctions against the country," an ECOWAS official said.

483-By Pap Saine BANJUL | Mon Apr 30, 2012 9:09am EDT BANJUL (Reuters) - West African regional bloc ECOWAS said on Monday it had imposed sanctions on Guinea-Bissau after talks with the ruling junta aimed at restoring constitutional order after a coup broke down. Guinea-Bissau has been run by soldiers since the April 12 coup, which derailed presidential elections and set back Western efforts to combat drugs cartels using the tiny country as a transit hub for cocaine bound for Europe.

462-BANJUL | Mon Apr 30, 2012 7:45am EDT BANJUL (Reuters) - West African regional bloc ECOWAS said on Monday it had imposed sanctions on Guinea-Bissau after talks with the members of the military junta, aimed at restoring constitutional order in the country, broke down. "These are targeted sanctions against junta leaders and diplomatic, economic and financial sanctions against the country," an ECOWAS official said. "They went into effect at midnight, last night.

255-By JAY SOLOMON WASHINGTON-The Obama administration is intensifying its scrutiny of Lebanon's financial system, concerned that Syria, Iran and the militant group Hezbollah are using Beirut's banks to evade international sanctions and fund their activities.