APA-Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) The governor of the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO), Philippe Henry Dacoury Tabley, announced Wednesday in Ouagadougou the appointment of Burkina national Jean-Baptiste Compaore as deputy-governor of the bank. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Mogadishu (Somalia) The electoral committee of the Somali National Olympic committee (Somali NOC) has announced that the congress to elect a new NOC executive bureau will be held on February 25 next year. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Khartoum (Sudan) The leadership of the South Sudan ruling party, Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), has been dissolved for the democratization of the party through the second SPLM national congress which kicked off Thursday in the south Sudanese capital of Juba. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Casablanca (Morocco) The permanent delegate of Morocco to the United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organisation (UNESCO), Aziza Bennani, aspires to become the first woman to vie for leadership of this international body in October 2009. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA - Cotonou (Benin) The commission of independent jurists in charge of assessing the Beninese electoral system and suggesting solutions for its improvement, has recommended to the democratic institutions, particularly the executive and parliament, to create a permanent Autonomous National Electoral Commission (CENA) for the organisation of the next elections in Benin, APA learnt Saturday from official sources in Cotonou. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA - Dakar (Senegal) Cameroonian Hamad Kalkaba Malboum has been re-elected for a new four-year term as chairman of the African Athletics Confederation (CAA) at the end of the continental body’s 19 th congress on Saturday in Dakar, APA reported here. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA - Nouakchott (Mauritania) Former Mauritanian opposition leader, Messaoud Ould Boulkheir, was Thursday elected, almost unanimously, Speaker of the National Assembly, APA noted here. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA - Dakar (Senegal) So far only Hamad Kalkaba Malboum, outgoing president of the African Athletics Confederation (AAC), and Theophilus Montcho, the Beninese Sports minister and president of the Beninese Athletics Federation, have announced their candidacy to the AAC presidency. The only common trait of these two candidates is their claim of adhering to the heritage of the first AAC president and present boss of the International Athletics Federation (IAAF), Senegalese Lamine Diack. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA -Dakar (Senegal ) Beninese national, Theophilus Montcho, candidate to the presidency of the African Athletics Confederation (AAC) told APA, Wednesday in Dakar, that African athletics should stop depending on the International Athletics Federation (IAAF) and find its own resources. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA-Cotonou (Benin) The Beninese civil society has named new members to sit in the Autonomous National Electoral Commission in charge of organising the March 2007 parliamentary elections, sources told APA in Cotonou on Tuesday. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion

APA - Niamey (Niger) The justice ministers of the Organisation for the Harmonisation in Africa of Business Law (OHADA) have elected Togolese national Boutora Takpa as permanent secretary, at the end of their meeting at the Nigerien capital, Niamey. Add to Cart - Add and View Cart - Click here for subscribtion