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Zimbabwe: Hopley roads in major facelift

A grader in Hopley

Most roads in Hopley Suburb are being spruced up following a timely intervention by a local organisation. Tanganyika Trust which was founded by Tongai Mnangagwa on Saturday started sprucing up the pot-holes infested roads. This publication caught up with Tongai and he said they were moved by the poor state of the roads in Hopley so they thought of chipping in to help avert the situation.

LIBERIA: WaterAid calls for action on access to water

Demand for safe drinking water is a global crisis

To mark World Water Day on March 22, WaterAid in Liberia is calling for urgent action from the international community and its government to reach the 30% of people in Liberia without access to clean water close to home, and leave no one behind. WaterAid’s ‘The Water Gap’ Report, released for World Water Day, reveals highest, lowest countries for water access.

LIBERIA: LDS develops 5-year strategic plan

Participants at the Lutheran Development Service Strategic Planning workshop

The Lutheran Development Service (LDS) in Liberia has concluded a workshop on its next five-year strategic plan of action. The 5-year strategic plan workshop was aimed at reviewing its past activities, challenges and successes. The strategic planning workshop looked at partnership and networking, enhanced improvement and growth.

Paulcy Iwuala, a young man who is passionate about the welfare of the less privileged speaks to Shout-Africa on his activities so far and his future plans.

PAULCY-IWUALA with a homeless family in Mbaise, in Imo State, Southeast Nigeria that he built a two bedroom apartment for to ameliorate their sufferings

Paulcy Iwuala a humanitarian, an indigene of Ehime Mbano in Imo State, southeast Nigeria in this interview with our correspondent Chinyere Ogbonna speaks on his Non-Profit Organisation, Genius Eyes International Foundation For The Hopeless. The primary focus of the NGO is to give hope to the downtrodden in the society who have suffered neglect and have nobody to cater for their basic needs such as health care. Through this foundation Mr. Iwuala has saved many lives and still doing a lot. Mr. Iwuala also spoke on governance in Imo State, his home state and the country at large. He emphasised the need for the youths to wake up from their slumber and begin to take a stand on issues that affect them.

Kenya: Rare primates and Delta’s pride

Tana River primates

Sometime back in 1976, then Kenya’s founding Father Mzee Jomo Kenyatta gazetted the Tana River Primate National Reserve (TRPNR) as a special protected area for two endangered primates and their riverine forest. What however the government officers did not tell Kenyatta is that he had gazetted several Pokomo villages. Right at the centre of the reserve Pokomo villages were thriving. They still reside in these villages to this day.