Pageant Queen Ruby B. Johnson Crowned as Miss Eco Sierra Leone: Promoting Eco Tourism and Sustainable Development in Post-Ebola Sierra Leone. On August 30, 2015 His Excellency Hon. Bockarie Stevens, Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to the U.S., crowned Miss Earth Maryland 2015 Ruby B. Johnson as Miss Eco Sierra Leone. Ruby will serve as Sierra Leone’s official delegate at the prestigious 2016 Miss ECO Pageant in Egypt.
Tanzanians that are involved in the cross-border businesses have been enlightened to reduce obstacles in order to allow the well functioning trade arrangements, together with movements of people and goods. The call was part of the deliberations during the two days seminar to discuss cross border concerns in Dar es Salaam on August 3rd and 4th.
Some of the four thousand, one hundred and forty seven beneficiaries of Oxfam Ebola Recovery Program in Grand Gedeh County have extolled the entity for initiating such Project in their County, following the aftermath of the Ebola outbreak. The Program by Oxfam in Grand Gedeh County is focusing on the restoration of livelihood and building resilience of vulnerable communities after the outbreak of the Ebola virus which affected all sectors of the Country.
"How can we focus on the economy when the skulls of Mbuya Nehanda and Sekuru Kaguvi are displayed in a British museum? These barbarians have been displaying the skulls of our First Chimurenga heroes and heroines in their libraries!” - Prof Jonathan Moyo.
The $420 million Dangote Industries cement plant in Masaiti on the Zambian Copperbelt was commissioned by President Edgar Lungu on August 4, 2015 at a ceremony also attended by Nigerian vice president, Professor Yemi Onsibajo.