By: WASH R&E “Media” Network – Near the historic Providence Island in Monrovia is a community that has experienced and continues to go through the huddles of poor sanitation. Slipway Community is amongst several Slum communities in and around Monrovia lacking safe drinking water, improved sanitation and hygiene facilities. Slipway, with a population of over fifteen thousand inhabitants often suffer from poor drainage system, lack of garbage bin and public toilets. With the rainy season, the situation has gone from bad to worse thereby resulting to a crisis proportion. The community has been placed under a spotlight due to crucial... Continue Reading
Harare, June 3, 2014: The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) honored Zimbabwe public health expert Donewell Bangure with the International Night Honor – the 2014 William H. Foege Award for Most Outstanding Public Health Scientific Oral Presentation – during the Epidemic Intelligence Service Conference held in late April at the organization’s headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. Bangure, who works as Assistant Field Coordinator at the University of Zimbabwe School Of Public Health, was rewarded for his presentation entitled, “Effectiveness of Short Message Reminders on Childhood Immunization Programme in Kadoma, Zimbabwe, 2013 – A Randomized Controlled Trial.” The study... Continue Reading
One of Sierra Leone’s long-serving educationists, headmaster Alpha Muhammad Othman AMO Alghali, has died in North Carolina, USA. Headmaster Alghali devoted almost half a century to promoting education in Sierra Leone. Mr. Alghali rose through the ranks from a junior teacher to headmaster at two of Freetown’s municipal primary schools, Islamia Municipal and East End Municipal. He later became inspector of schools before his retirement. Mr. Alghali’s long and distinguished career was defined mainly by his passion to ensure that students not only learn to read and write, but also strive to embrace and value the essence of their being... Continue Reading
An 89% majority vote at an extra-ordinary general meeting (EGM) in Pretoria on Saturday, April 12, resulted in the adoption of the revised Memorandum of Incorporation and company rules of the SA Medical Association (SAMA). Achieving this unequivocal support from members has, to all intents and purposes, nullified recent attempts by alleged representatives of the so-called “Partner Organisations” – a minority remnant of SAMA’s early post-apartheid beginnings – to lay claim to equal representation in all leadership structures of SAMA. An all-time attendance record in terms of both proxies and attendees was reached at the EGM – a milestone that... Continue Reading
…….students in tertiary institutions shower praises to judge (rtd) Joseph Warioba – By Elias Mhegera – Nation’s attention focused to Dodoma – While the Constituent Assembly (CA) in Dodoma has been adjourned for a while so as to allow its members to go for Easter holidays, the chairman of the now defunct Constitutional Review Commission (CRC) Judge (rtd) Joseph Warioba will be one person to breathe in a sigh of relief to the maximum of enjoyment. This is after hearing good news from students from tertiary institutions and many other analysts who have come strongly in defense of his team’s... Continue Reading
