The Krio Descendants Union (KDU) will congregate in Durham, North Carolina this weekend with Krios, Sierra Leoneans and guests for a global family reunion. This historic family reunion from September 4 – 6, 2015 comes five centuries after Sierra Leoneans first arrived in the Carolinas as slaves to work on rice plantations and as domestic servants.
Issues regarding the timely removal of solid waste in Liberia, continue to be a serious challenge to the Government of Liberia and Service providers.Several residents in and around Monrovia and environs have complained on many occasions about the unhygienic conditions garbage posses to them and their communities.
With Rolling Stone’s retraction of the UVA rape story after investigation by Columbia University, notwithstanding, actress and playwright Fariso Jordan succeeds in keeping it strictly real in her rescripted, full production play Georgia. Fariso’s play Georgia premiered as a one-woman play in 2013 and two years later it has metamorphose into a re-written full cast production.
After two decades of service as a leader in international development cooperation, promoting important initiatives for global sustainable development, Sierra Leonean born Dr. Kandeh Yumkella - former United Nations Under-Secretary General and Special Representative of the Secretary General for Sustainable Energy for All - has retired from the UN.
The controversy surrounding the purchase of 100 Chinese for $12 million dollars continues to create a stir. A growing chorus demanding investigation and subsequent prosecution against officials over allegations of misappropriating public funds, corruption and bribery in the recent acquisition of 100 buses from China are beginning to mount.