Thirty- five year old Teclar Chakoma, a single mother of three, lost her job in 2009 and turned to hawking vegetables and carrier bags at shop exits, managing to cater for her family’s needs.
African leaders including Sierra Leone’s President Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone concluded an African Union (AU) International Ebola Conference Tuesday in Malabo, capital of Equatorial Guinea in West Africa. “All the trips being undertaken by President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma from Guinea Conakry, Brussels, Washington, DC, New York, and now Malabo in Equatorial Guinea are a further demonstration of his profound and unfettered commitment to defeat the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD,” said Abdulai Bayraytay, Government of Sierra Leone Spokesman said about President Koroma’s participation in a statement via email.
The Southern African Editors’ Forum (SAEF) has challenged journalist to hold leaders in their respective countries accountable as a way of defending their countries. In a statement issues by SAEF following the arrest of editor-in-chief of Zambia’s The Post, Fred M’membe and two journalists for publishing a story on a corruption investigation against President Edgar Lungu’s Political Adviser, Kaizer Zulu.
What should have been the latest wildlife site for tourist attraction on six islands in Liberia has turned into a harmful Colony of chimpanzees brutalizing women in search of food for survival. Mary Walker, 48 is one of several to come under attack and victimized at the hands of ten chimpanzees when they were picking kiss-meat in early March 5, 2014 on one of the islands near Zangar Town, Charlesville, Lower Margibi County, near Monrovia-Liberia.
The National Publicity and Outreach Coordinator in the Office of Government Spokesman, Abdulai Bayraytay has commended the Bombali Women Farmers In Action, a conglomerate of fourteen women’s groups, for their commitment to take the lead in farming and agribusiness in the Bombali district.