UN Attack Helicopters Ready to Respond After Rebel Ceasefire Violation (click at title of entry, thank you)
UN News Service (New York)NEWS17 November 2008 Posted to the web 17 November 2008
United Nations attack helicopters have mounted reconnaissance flights and "are poised to respond to any and all eventualities" in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) after rebel forces violated a ceasefire and seized a number of localities in some of the worst fighting in more than a week.
Strongly condemning the latest violation yesterday of the ceasefire by the rebel National Congress for the Defence of the People, know by its French acronym CNDP and led by renegade general Laurent Nkunda, the UN Mission in DRC (MONUC) called on the warring parties to uphold the ceasefire and give the ongoing political process a chance to succeed....
Ecobank (Lome)
SPONSOR WIRE11 November 2008Posted to the web 11 November 2008
Ecobank Transnational Incorporated, (ETI) parent company of the Ecobank Group, celebrated its landmark 20th anniversary today, breaking ground on the construction of its new headquarters building in Lome. The Togolese capital has been home to the pan-African bank since it commenced operations in 1988....
...About ECOBANK (www.ecobank.com )
ECOBANK is the leading independent regional banking group in Africa. It currently operates in 25 African countries, namely: Benin, Burkina-Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo-Brazzaville, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo. ETI is listed on the stock exchanges in Lagos, Accra and Abidjan (BRVM). The Group is owned by over 7000 shareholders including institutional investors. It has over 10,000 employees in over 500 branches. Ecobank is a full-service bank providing wholesale, retail, investment and transaction banking services and products to governments, financial institutions, multinationals, international organizations, medium, small and micro businesses and individuals.
