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By Abdul Rahman Bangura- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone– Major General Fatuma Gaiti was appointed in partnership with other leaders encompassing a fresh head of the armed forces, after the passing of the military chief and others in a helicopter crash last month. Maj Gen Ahmed has held other firsts in the military leadership that is dominated by men – she was the first woman to rise to the rank of brigadier and major general. She joined the military in 1983, serving under the Women Service Corps, a woman-only outfit that operated as a separate body from the other arms of the defense forces. They were a supplementary cursor service delivering support duties such as administrative work, logistics, medical and communication. The unit was disbanded in 1999 and...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone– Prior to the launch of the National Platforms of these two Member States, nine (9) Member States namely, Benin, Cote d’Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal and Togo had launched their National Platforms in 2023 and consequently gained a grant of $100,000 each from the ECOWAS Commission towards the implementation of quick benefit projects in border communities. In Monrovia, the Resident Representative of the ECOWAS Commission in Liberia, Amb. Josephine Nkrumah who exemplified the commissioner in charge of Economic Affairs and Agriculture of the ECOWAS Commission, Massandje Toure-Litse, noted that, the launch of Liberia’s National Platform for the ECBCSP will kick-start with stout...

By Abdul Rahman Bangura- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Freetown, Sierra Leone– This development came to being during the 15th Annual General Meeting of EAAACA, presently underway in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Kenya will serve in the capacity as Vice President for next two years. The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) is participating in the meeting. This year’s conference brings in strong alliance with heads of anticorruption agencies from Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Djibouti, South Sudan, Burundi and Somalia. They are holding the conference to discuss the road maps of bolstering regional cooperation in the fight against corruption. The EACC delegation is led by Director of Field Services and Coordination Jackson Kaunda Mue. On May 02nd, 2024, MUE made a...

By Richard Adorsu- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS (NADN) Accra GHANA- The Dean of the University of Ghana School of Law, Prof Raymond Atuguba, has stated that economic hardship is a major reason coup d’état have become rampant in West Africa in recent years. According to him, some West African countries have experienced coups because leaders turned a blind eye to calls for solutions to address these problems. Speaking to the media, he said coup perpetrators have hinted that certain factors motivated them to usurp power and change the status quo. “Coup leaders cite five issues consistently as causing the coup. The first is economic hardship. You see why I am talking about the economy a lot and the debt crisis and the outward oriented economies. “If you don’t solve those economic hardships coups...