Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, the Sierra Leonean award-winning journalist, author, chair of the African Socialist Movement of Sierra Leone and human rights advocate arrived in New York City late Wednesday to begin a two-month book tour in the United States of America.
Mr. Bah said the tour promoting his latest title “The Ebola Outbreak in West Africa: Corporate Gangsters, Multinationals & Rogue Politricksters” kicks-off on Thursday, April 7 with a speaking engagement at Boston’s Wellesley College Africana Studies Department in Massachusetts.
The issue of safe drinking water and improved sanitation has become a globalcrisis confronting billions of people the world over.
Billions of these people living in third world countries are desperately in dire need of these services on a daily basis.
Liberiais no exception when it comes to the issues of safe drinking water and improved sanitation.
The Liberia WASH Consortium has intensified awareness on the importance of access to improved Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH).
The Consortium, as part of its Awareness Strategy recently concluded activities marking Water Action Month, as part of the official celebration of World Water Day, March 22, 2016.
The activities were held in Greenville, Sinoe County in collaboration with its local Partner, "Association of Evangelicals of Liberia (AEL)" including the county administration, student community and the residents.
In commemoration of Water Action Month as part of the globally observance of March as Water Action Month, the Liberia Civil Society Organizations WASH Network has embarked on series of activities.
Water Action Month is also in observance of World Water Day, usually celebrated on March 22. This year, World Water Day was celebrated under the theme; “Water and Jobs”.
The WASH CSOs Network has staged a number of sit in actions at key government Ministries and agencies that have some oversight when it comes to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in Liberia.
For several years now, residents of Whein Town Community in Paynesville, outside the nation’s capital Monrovia have complained about the unhealthy state their community is in due to the presence of the Whein Town Dump site.