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.
Organizers permeated sheer exuberance on the impressive and unprecedented turn out of the annual observance of the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Four Hundred people packed to the brim the United Nations (UN) Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Chamber at the UN Headquarter in New York on Thursday for the commemoration, according to official estimates.
China has called for mutual understanding and negotiated solutions to global conflicts. This stance was reiterated in two different occasions. The most recent statement was by Premier Li Kegiang when he opened the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference. The Premier went on to condemn a series of recent terrorist attacks which have claimed several innocent lives. But prior to that was Mr. Wang Yi, Minister of Foreign Affairs, who is responsible for Chinese Foreign Policy and Foreign Relations when he met international and domestic media in Beijing, on recently.
Leaders of Africans Campaign for TPS Renewal are ecstatic and heaving a sigh of relief over Homeland Security Secretary Mr. Jeh Johnson’s announcement Tuesday of an additional six months Temporary Protected Status (TPS) extension from May 22, 2016 to November 21, 2016 for Ebola affected countries of Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia. Current Sierra Leonean, Guinean and Liberian TPS beneficiaries who intend to extend their status must re-register in a 60 day period from March 22, 2016 through May 23, 2016, according to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.
A Chinese academician Prof Prof. Li Anshan has called for diplomatic adversaries to his country to revisit the long history of unshaken diplomatic ties and people to people co-operation between Africa and its China counterpart. The call was part of the message to the ‘world’ by a distinguished historian and Chinese scholar in African studies Prof. Li Anshan when lecturing a team of 20 African journalists who are visiting China for a span of ten months after being hosted by the China –Africa Press Centre (CAPC), in Beijing.