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{{Asante Nyarko, a 29 year-old employee of Rocksters Company in Accra, Ghana, dealers in building materials, has allegedly committed suicide in his girlfriend’s room at Jukwa near Cape Coast.

The late Nyarko, who hails from Kwahu-Nkwatia in the Eastern Region, visited his concubine Ms Ama Lydia at Jukwa and requested her to prepare fufu for him.

Sources close to the girlfriend, said Ms Lydia went to the market to buy foodstuff to prepare the said meal, but on her return she found Nyarko hanged on the ceiling with a rope in her room.

The matter was reported to the police who picked the body and deposited it at the Central Regional Hospital for autopsy.}}

{{ECOWAS member countries are to summon their intelligence chiefs to Accra next week to discuss strategies to deal with Boko Haram’s threat in Nigeria and the sub-region.}}

The militant Islamist group’s abduction of over 200 girls last month and attacks this week which left more than 300 people dead have focused the world’s attention on Nigeria’s fight against the group.

ECOWAS Chair, President Mahama and Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan after a meeting this afternoon, resolved to eliminate the threat posed by Boko Haram.

“ECOWAS has common anti-terrorism strategy, and so as Chair of ECOWAS I have been speaking to other ECOWAS heads of state and they believe that we should activate that anti-terrorism strategy.

“We are looking to call a meeting of our joint intelligence chiefs in Accra next week, and we are inviting Cameroun and Chad to join so that together we can see how we eliminate this security threat to the sub-region.”

President expressed the solidarity of other heads of state to the Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan, and assured Nigerians that terrorism is everybody’s concern, pledging the support of the sub-region to counter the terrorist attacks there.

President Goodluck Jonathan, who has been under fire for his handling of the mass abduction has accepted U.S., British and Chinese offers of assistance to find the schoolgirls.

Goodluck Jonathan said Boko Haram’s mass abduction would mark a turning point in the battle against the Islamists, as world powers join the search to rescue the hostages.

Speaking to the media, he was optimistic the girls would be rescued, adding that terrorism would not stop the world, Africa, and Nigeria from moving.

He however decried the limited satellite technology in Nigerian and lack of “clear picture” as to what actually happened in the school which is hampering efforts at finding the girls

“I believe with the assistance, and investment we are making now we will be able to bring terror to an end in Nigeria.”

President Jonathan appealed to parents of the kidnapped girls to cooperate with government in finding the girls.

Currently Nigerians and the entire world is shocked and still struggling to come to terms with events in Nigeria.

Former UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan has lashed out at the Nigerian government, the African Union and ECOWAS, for doing little to solve the crisis.

He told CNN’s Christina Amanpour the Nigerian government must consider a military option.

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{{The UN Security Council ordered sanctions on Friday against three Central African Republic leaders, including former president Francois Bozize.}}

The leader of the anti-Balaka militia Levy Yakete and the Seleka militia’s number two Nourredine Adam were also targeted.

These targeted sanctions – an asset freeze and a travel ban – were anticipated in a 28 January UN resolution proposed by France and the United States.

The decision taken by the Security Council’s Sanctions Committee was delayed for several weeks by Russia and China, who requested time to examine the case before finally giving the green light, diplomats said.

Some 5 000 troops in the African MISCA force along with 2 000 French soldiers under a UN mandate have been deployed to help restore order and security in the country that plunged into chaos following a coup in March 2013.

After the mainly Muslim Seleka rebels were ousted from power in January, Samba Panza was chosen to head a transition government until elections could be held.

But a cycle of revenge attacks between the Muslim ex-rebels and vigilante groups from the Christian majority have led to unabated killings and lootings, and caused a major humanitarian crisis.

The Sanctions Committee accused the three men of “engaging in or providing support for acts that undermine the peace, stability or security of the CAR.”

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{{The Sudanese foreign minister Ali Karti criticized Cairo’s approach in dealing with Ethiopian Renaissance Dam issue and called on the Egyptian media and other circles to stop what he described as “clowning”.}}

In statements to pro-government Ashorooq TV, Karti said that Sudan would have suffered the most if constructing the dam was done without environmental studies to prove its safety or economic feasibility to the three main Nile Basin countries .

Karti stressed that when his government felt that there was a slackening in examining these issues, it formed a national committee to study all aspects of the dam with the right to cooperate with any of the national committees in Ethiopia or Egypt.

He described the Egyptian -Sudanese relations as good, emphasizing that Sudan has refused to intervene in the ongoing political crisis in Egypt as it is an internal affair in which it respected the will of the Egyptian people and their choice towards change.

The Sudanese presidential assistant Ibrahim Ghandour on his end lashed out at some Egyptian journalists whom he said have been playing a very negative role in the relationship between the two peoples.

Ghandour said that the Sudanese people will never forget the abuses of some of those affiliated with the Egyptian media and their attempts to incite Cairo against Khartoum as well as some of the statements peddled by some Egyptian politicians against Sudan.

He underscored that Sudanese people are intelligent and tolerant but never forget contempt .

Sudan has approved of Ethiopia’s bid to build the dam thus angering their Egyptian neighbor.

Egypt fears that the $4.6 billion hydropower plant will diminish its share of the river’s water flows, arguing its historic water rights must be maintained.

Ethiopia is the source of about 85% of the Nile’s water, mainly through rainfall in its highlands, with over 90% of Egyptians relying on water from the Nile’s flows.

In June, a panel of international experts tasked with studying the impacts of the Ethiopian dam on lower riparian countries, including Sudan and Egypt, found that the dam project will not cause significant harm to either country.

Cairo remains unconvinced and has sought further studies and consultation with Khartoum and Addis Ababa.

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