MEDIA MONITORING REPORT
Thursday, 08 January 2015
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HEADLINES
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*NIGERIA-
Trial Confirms Ebola Vaccine Candidate Safe (The Guardian, 08 Jan 2015)
*2105 -
Be Neutral, Conduct Credible Elections in Nigeria, Jonathan Warns INEC
*Boko Haram threatens Cameroon with violence
in video (Reuters, 07 Jan 2015)
*TOGO- Two Decades and Counting - When
Will Local Elections Be Held? (ISS,
07 Jan 2015)
*GAMBIE- The Gouvernment says former
presidential guard chief led coup attempt
(Reuters, 07 Jan 2015
*How Africa's Political Regimes Legitimate
Themselves Through the Fight Against Terrorism (AllAfrica, 07 Jan 2015)
*Ban
outraged by ‘horrendous and cold-blooded’ attack on French magazine(UN News, 07 Jan 2015)
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WEST AFRICA
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NIGERIA-
Trial Confirms Ebola Vaccine Candidate Safe (The Guardian, 08 Jan 2015)
TWO
experimental DNA vaccines to prevent Ebola virus and the closely related
Marburg virus are safe, and generated a similar immune response in healthy
Ugandan adults as reported in healthy US adults earlier this year. The
findings, from the first trial of filovirus vaccines in Africa, are published
in The Lancet.
2105 -
Be Neutral, Conduct Credible Elections, Jonathan Warns INEC
President
Goodluck Jonathan yesterday told the Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC) to ensure that every registered Nigerian voter gets his permanent voter
card before the February polls. He also cautioned the electoral umpire to be
neutral and ensure that the 2015 general election is credible, drawing the
attention of the commission's chairman, Attahiru Jega, to the fact that the
global community was watching the electoral body with keen interest.
Boko Haram threatens Cameroon with violence
in video (Reuters, 07 Jan 2015)
A man purporting to be the leader of
Nigerian militant sect Boko Haram has threatened to step up violence in
neighboring Cameroon unless it scraps its constitution and embraces Islam. The
video posted online this week shows a man who looks like the group's head,
Abubakar Shekau, but is filmed from a distance at different angles.
LIBERIA-
UN Ebola mission chief commends progress, warns against ‘complacency’ (UNNews, 07 Jan 2015)
On his
first tour of Ebola-stricken Liberia, the newly appointed Special
Representative of the Secretary-General for the United Nations Mission for
Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) today outlined his vision to tackle the scourge in
what he called a “3C approach” which he described as recognizing the vital
roles of “countries, communities and coordination.”
TOGO-
Two Decades and Counting - When Will Local Elections Be Held? (ISS, 07 Jan 2015)
Presidential
elections in Togo are scheduled for the first half of 2015. Important as they are, these polls should not
overshadow the need for local elections, which are paramount in rooting
democratic culture in the country. Local elections have not been held in Togo
since 1986, with different governments always postponing the process.
La modification de la
Constitution en débat à l’Assemblée (07 Jan 2014)
Les parlementaires togolais planchent sur la
proposition de l'opposition qui voudrait modifier la Constitution et notamment
limiter le nombre de mandats présidentiels. Les députés - mouvance
présidentielle et opposition - souhaitent un consensus avant la prochaine
élection présidentielle, mais pour le moment, on en est loin.
COTE D’IVOIRE- Le directeur de
campagne de Gbagbo arrêté (RFI, 07 Jan 2015)
A Abidjan en Côte d'Ivoire, le directeur de campagne
de Laurent Gbagbo dans la course à la présidence du FPI (Front populaire
ivoirien) a été arrêté mercredi soir. Interpellé à son domicile du quartier
Riviera, Adou Assoa, tout juste rentré d’exil, a été emmené par les forces de
police pour un interrogatoire.
GAMBIE- The Government says former
presidential guard chief led coup attempt (Reuters, 07 Jan 2015
Gambia's government on Wednesday accused
the former head of the West African nation's presidential guard of leading a
small group, including two former U.S. soldiers, in a failed attempt to oust
President Yahya Jammeh last month.
Other
headlines :
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SAHEL
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Beaucoup à Bangui s'interrogent sur les raisons pour
lesquelles l'ancien chef rebelle tchadien Baba Laddé, dont les combattants ont
commis de nombreuses exactions sur le territoire centrafricain, a été extradé
vendredi 2 janvier vers le Tchad.
Attaques de Boko
Haram: 3.000 Nigérians se réfugient au Tchad (AFP, 07 Jan 2015)
Le Tchad a vu affluer
depuis mi-décembre « plus de 3000 réfugiés » nigérians et rentrer au pays plus
de 500 Tchadiens en raison des attaques du groupe islamiste Boko Haram dans le
nord-est frontalier du Nigeria, a annoncé mercredi le Premier ministre tchadien
Kalzeubé Pahimi Deubet.
Other
headlines :
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CROSS CUTTING
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New Chief in the UN Fight Against Ebola
Expresses Concern (VOA, 07 Jan 2015)
The new U.N. official in the fight against
Ebola said he worries that successes in treating the deadly disease may provoke
a “degree of complacency.”
Special Representative of the
Secretary-General for the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response,
Ould Cheikh Ahmed, spoke to reporters in the Liberian capital Monrovia
Wednesday during his first trip to the Ebola stricken region.
How
Africa's Political Regimes Legitimate Themselves Through the Fight Against
Terrorism (AllAfrica, 07 Jan 2015)
Terrorism
has been gaining ground in sub-Saharan Africa in the last decade. This does not
mean that terrorism was non-existent in the region before this (the Lord's
Resistance Army was formed in Uganda in around 1986), but the formation per se
of Sub Saharan organisations and their self-identification as terrorist groups
is a relatively recent phenomenon.
Ban
outraged by ‘horrendous and cold-blooded’ attack on French magazine (UN News, 07 Jan 2015)
United
Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today strongly condemned the appalling
and “cold-blooded crime” committed by terrorists who attacked the French
magazine Charlie Hebdo, which news reports indicate killed 10 media workers and
two police officers. “I am appalled and deeply shocked by the attack against
Charlie Hebdo in Paris this morning,” Mr. Ban said. “This act of violence can
in no way be justified. This is an attack against freedom of expression and
freedom of the press - the two pillars of democracy.”
Attentat à Charlie Hebdo: la
presse africaine révulsée(RFI, 07 Jan 2015)
L’attaque terroriste contre l’hebdomadaire satirique
Charlie Hebdo a provoqué une onde de choc en France, mais aussi en Afrique et
ailleurs dans le monde. Douze personnes, dont les célèbres dessinateurs Cabu,
Wolinski, Tignous et Charb, ainsi que deux policiers, ont été tuées. Vive
émotion en Algérie, en Côte d’Ivoire ou encore en Mauritanie. Les condamnations
tombent de toutes parts et les réactions de la presse satirique africaine sont
unanimes : c’est une horreur totale.
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For more information:
Communications and Public Information Office UNOWA/
OSES
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Disclaimer: This selection
of press articles does not vouch the position of the United Nations Office
for West Africa (UNOWA) / Office of the Special Envoy for the Sahel (OSES) –
Avertissement: Cette sélection d'articles de presse ne
reflète pas la position du Bureau de l'Organisation des Nations Unies pour
l'Afrique de l’Ouest (UNOWA) / Bureau de l’Envoyé Spécial pour le Sahel (OSES)
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