Severe flooding has taken place in Grand Cape Mount County leaving properties including houses destroyed and making hundreds of citizens and residents homeless.
A 16 year old boy of Nagbena Town reportedly died while attempting to flee and got drowned in the process after his town was surrounded by the flood.
The flooding has also left farms and crops destroyed over the last 4 days, thereby increasing the hardship of the people, most of whom are unemployed.
Most of the citizens and residents depend on farming, hunting and fishing activities for livelihood and sustainability.
According to a release from the WASH Reporters & Editors Network of Liberia, the flood started Thursday, following hours of heavy rain. WASH Journalists visited Grand Cape Mount County over the weekend and witnessed flooding in most of the communities in Tewor District, up to Sunday.
The flooded communities are Bo Waterside, Nagbena, Kobolia, Amina, and Jaliebah. Others are Bandor, Bombohun, Jenneh Liberia, Gambia, and Gondama.
Following a robust media focus on the recent flooding in and around Monrovia by the WASH Reporters & Editors Network of Liberia, Members of the House of Representatives have underscored the need for government to put in place the proper mechanism in swiftly dealing with the issue of continuous flooding.
Despite many challenges of internet connectivity, Africa still stands as one of the areas with potentials for investors in this area, according to the experience that was adduced from the Capacity Africa 2015 conference in Dar es Salaam recently.
The two days conference incident on September 8th and 9th at the Hyatt Regency, well known in Tanzania by its traditional name The Kilimanjaro Hotel, was a mixed grill of investors in the telecom industry, experts and other well informed key stakeholders.
In days gone by, water and air were understood to be infinite resources; clean, fresh, and consistently plentiful. In the present day, however, we no longer have the luxury of such assumptions. Growing populations and the demands of agriculture have combined to put the squeeze on freshwater reserves, and no other continent experiences this problem like Africa. An estimated 358 million people across the continent lack access to safe drinking water. Yet as the march of technological progress moves forward, several innovative tools have been developed with the hope of one day eradicating this issue completely.
On Friday September 11, 2015 the world joined the United States of America, and other peace loving nations, institutions and individuals to commemorate the barbaric terrorist killings that were carried in the US, in 2001.
Development strategists have condemned growing religious radicalism as manifested through terrorism as another big inhibitor to prosperity. They say this is beyond religion, but a total transformation of mind of an individual in order to facilitate ill motives.
