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West Africa: Communauté Electrique Du Bénin Issues Tender to Operate Fibre Network Over Its Transmission Pylons in Benin And Togo
Last week the international power utility CEB issued a tender that will allow an external company to operate a fibre network over its transmission pylons in both Benin and Togo. This will do three key things: extend the amount of fibre network available in both countries, potentially connect both countries to their neighbours by more than one route and may help lower national backbone prices in both countries.
Source : AllAfrica | 07-Aug-2008 23:28

TOGO: Thousands displaced from flooding, experts brace for more

DAKAR, 6 August 2008 - Weeks of rains in Togo have forced thousands of people from their homes into temporary government-run centres set up throughout the capital, Lome.

Source : Topix.net | 07-Aug-2008 00:27

Again, Five Citizens Manhandled in Benin
HARASSMENT of Nigerians travelling around the West African sub-region by the nation's neighbours took a turn for the worst recently when five Nigerian citizens returning to the country from Mali through Benin Republic, were subjected to humiliating scrutiny at the Cotonou airport.
Source : AllAfrica | 04-Aug-2008 15:40

Again, five Nigerians manhandled in Benin

HARASSMENT of Nigerians travelling around the West African sub-region by the nation's neighbours took a turn for the worst recently when five Nigerian citizens returning to the country from Mali through Benin ...

Source : Topix.net | 03-Aug-2008 05:00

BENIN: Power cuts and risky sex

COTONOU, 30 July 2008 - With selective power cuts regularly plunging Benin's largest city, Cotonou, into darkness, Alain*, a young taxi driver, no longer has to worry about paying for a hotel room to have ...

Source : Topix.net | 30-Jul-2008 21:22

BENIN: Prison conditions violate human rights
COTONOU Wednesday, July 30, 2008 (IRIN) - Prison conditions in Benin are so deplorable that they were, alongside police brutality, one of two reasons that compelled the international human rights watchdog Amnesty International to list the country in its annual State of the World's Human Rights report for the first time in 2008.
Source : IRIN | 30-Jul-2008 17:14

BENIN: Power cuts and risky sex
COTONOU Wednesday, July 30, 2008 (IRIN) - With selective power cuts regularly plunging Benin's largest city, Cotonou, into darkness, Alain*, a young taxi driver, no longer has to worry about paying for a hotel room to have casual sex ? a quiet corner on a dark street will do.
Source : IRIN | 30-Jul-2008 16:59

Nigeria: FG Releases N57 Billion for Power

President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has directed Finance Minister, Dr Shamsudeen Usman, to release the sum of N57 billion as part of the N115 billion meant for power projects to the Ministry of Power within a week, ...

Source : Topix.net | 30-Jul-2008 16:57

Benin: Prison Conditions Violate Human Rights
Prison conditions in Benin are so deplorable that they were, alongside police brutality, one of two reasons that compelled the international human rights watchdog Amnesty International to list the country in its annual State of the World's Human Rights report for the first time in 2008.
Source : AllAfrica | 30-Jul-2008 16:36

GLOBAL: How climate change works
JOHANNESBURG Tuesday, July 29, 2008 (IRIN) - Climate change is complicated, but it doesn't have to be:
Source : IRIN | 30-Jul-2008 11:10

GLOBAL: Calls to reduce taxes and controls on food aid
JOHANNESBURG Monday, July 28, 2008 (IRIN) - The World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a call by the World Bank for a UN resolution to scrap taxes and export controls on food aid purchases, but experts say there is little chance of such a resolution being effected.
Source : IRIN | 28-Jul-2008 20:50