….Sixty One Communities Free of Open Defecation – A total of sixty one communities in Bong, Lofa and Nimba counties have been declared Open Defecation Free (ODF) after a meticulous process conducted by the government of Liberia with support from the USAID-funded IWASH Project jointly implemented by CHF International and PSI. The IWASH Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) Project Manager, Madam Elizabeth Geddeh said the government of Liberia, with support from IWASH, triggered one hundred twenty communities in February this year and that the sixty one communities are the first batch to achieve ODF, with the last celebration which took place... Continue Reading
By Dennis Kabatto – As the debate over whether to repeal or invoke Sierra Leone’s Public Order Act of 1965 intensifies, two journalists Kashope Holland-Cole, managing editor and Ibrahim Samura, editor of the Prime Time newspaper have respectively offered a public apology and retracted false and malicious defamatory articles they published against Attorney Adekunle King. The retraction and public apology is part of an agreement mediated by the president of Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) Mr. Kelvin Lewis and his executive for Attorney King to drop pending criminal charges and civil lawsuit against Prime Times newspaper, Mr. Cole and... Continue Reading
The William V.S. Tubman University is actively seeking support for its programs and initiatives. Rev. Rita Townsend, Vice President for Institutional Advancement and Barbara Simmons, JD, Dean for International Education, met with Mickey L. Burnim, Ph.D., President of Bowie State University. Dr. Burnim and his Cabinet warmly received the delegation from Tubman University, at a meeting on the campus of Bowie State University on 26 June 2013. Mrs. Roberta Brown Cooper, President for Marylanders for Progress (Liberia), Inc., was instrumental in setting up meetings and appointments for the Tubman University delegation. The delegation also met with the Economic Development Corporation of... Continue Reading
It was a rare and surreal spectacle at the UCT Graduate School of Business recently where the launch of a book that challenges the ontology of contemporary business began with a play. Giraffe and Hyena discussed the need for business for the betterment of society – business driven by values. The dialogue between the two animals – acted out by Sean Gabriel Smith (Giraffe) and Nicole Hetz (Hyena) – is the first chapter of the new free-to-download book, Values Based Leadership in Business Model Innovation written by Professor Walter Baets, director of the business school, and his wife Erna Oldenboom.... Continue Reading
By Shout-Africa Correspondent, Dar es Salaam – The African Union (AU) programme for governance assessment-the Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) Tanzania chapter has urged for views of the people to prevail on the final document of the Constitution. The APRM has also hinted that it is reviewing the just released document to see whether there are some issues that need to be enhanced so that the country finally get its final document that would lead Tanzania into a more prosperous and peaceful country in the future. That was said in Dar es Salaam yesterday at the Dar Salaam International Trade Fair... Continue Reading
