The International Day of the Girl child recognises the unique challenges facing girls around the world and emphasises the importance of education. The UN encourages member states to make the right to education a moral obligation. It is not unusual for Africans to be the poster girl for suffering and poverty but we do we really need International organisations to us tell the benefits of educating our girls? If Africa is to take its rightful place on the world stage then educating girls is no longer a leisurely choice, it is a mandatory requirement. This year’s theme is Innovating for... Continue Reading
By Dennis Kabatto – Hundreds of Guineans and friends of Guinea braved rainy weather Sunday for the first annual Guinean Festival Day at Crotona Park in Bronx, New York. Since Wednesday, October 2, Guineans in New York have been celebrating their country’s 55th Independence anniversary. Sunday’s festival featured 8 hours of Guinean culture, soccer, basketball and live entertainment. Young Guinean artists from different states in the US thrilled the audience with lively performances including freestyle hip hop and traditional drumming. Organizers say because it was their first efforts, they were not able to secure established artists from the homeland to... Continue Reading
………at the Africa Oil & Gas Awards 2013 – Craig International Supplies (CIS), a division of Aberdeen head-quartered global shipping and energy services firm Craig Group, has been named Supplier of the Year at the Africa Oil & Gas Awards 2013. The oilfield procurement company’s Cape Town-based operation won the award for excellent service in sourcing and supplying oilfield products and services and for achieving significant growth across the entire African continent. CIS will picked up the award at a gala dinner and ceremony during the 2013 Africa Oil & Gas Summit being held in Cape Town on 8th of October. The... Continue Reading
By: Augustine N. Myers – Authorities at Child Fund International, an international Non-Governmental Organization operating in Liberia have instituted new measures aimed at ensuring more efficient service delivery. The new measures among other things include organizational staff reshuffle and adjustments to meet up with productivity demands of Child Fund Liberia. The new measures are part of future program approaches and operational philosophy, core accountability systems, sponsor relations and quality measures intended to propel the process of Change and Program Development. A Process of Critical Reflection as described by the Organization, is a process of adapting culturally to the Entity’s Global... Continue Reading
By Dennis Kabatto – While, Sierra Leone Minister of Information and Communications Alhaji Alpha Kanu and Senior Government officials were engaged at a Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Town Hall Meeting recently in Maryland, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Mr. Samura Kamara was briefing the Security Council on Peace building and development agenda 217 miles away at the UN Headquarters in New York. The Security Council, in unanimous resolution adopted on March 26, 2013 extended the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Sierra Leone (UNIPSIL) mission until March 31, 2014 when it will draw down and its responsibilities transferred... Continue Reading
