….AS Joint Monitoring Team Ends Visit To Nimba County – By: Augustine N. Myers – The Action by Churches Together (ACT Alliance) through its Appeal Project in Nimba County, the Republic of Liberia designed to assist thousands of Ivorian refugees and host communities, has ended a 5-day intensive visit to beneficiaries and others in Nimba. Participating members include the Church of Sweden, Finn Church Aid, Lutheran Development Service (LDS) in Liberia, and the Lutheran Church in Liberia Trauma Healing and Reconciliation Program. Others include the Rural Human Rights Activates Program and Equip-Liberia. The assessment which started on Monday, November 28 to... Continue Reading
By Shout-Africa Correspondent – Despite the deadlock, emerging economies have, however, indicated their openness to legally-binding carbon emission reduction targets from 2020. This commitment is potentially a great step to unlock one of the big political issues of this year’s climate change talks in Durban, South Africa. The goal of a comprehensive and binding agreement may be beyond the reach of the 17th United Nations climate change negotiations, says the organisation’s secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon. Ban was speaking at the official opening of the high-level talks on climate change in Durban, South Africa, on December 6 – nine days into the... Continue Reading
…As Participants Vow To Be True Ambassador – By: WASH R&E Network – An International Charity, the Cooperative Housing Foundation (CHF-International), has ended an eight-day workshop on Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) in Gbarnga, Bong County with for over thirty participants in attendance. The workshop organized by CHF-International Liberia in collaboration with the Government of Liberia with support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was intended to train County Level Facilitators (CLF) and Natural Leaders (NL) under its CLTS Project. CHF-International Liberia Coordinator on Community Mobilization and Empowerment, Elizabeth Geddeh, said the County Level Facilitators were drawn from various... Continue Reading
By Shout-Africa Cameroon correspondent – The purpose was to help organizations better manage their information and contribute to the development of their competitiveness. With the rapid modernization taking place, the need for efficiency in enterprise management is necessary. Information covering auditing and finance, pay and human resource management, commercial management and electronic trade, production management, customer relation management, among others, in enterprises need specialized software. The French-based software producer, Sage, sensitized some managers of enterprises in Douala on Friday. Held under the theme: “Judicial protection of computer software in OAPI zone”, René-Philippe Nsoa of the Ministry of Justice, one of... Continue Reading
By Shout-Africa Cameroon correspondent – A workshop to instil order in the sector held in the economic capital, Douala, December 1. The sector of microfinance in the country has grown simultaneously in number and disorder. Even though it remains a crucial sector employing many young people, insufficient mastery of some of its texts still plagues the economy. Cameroon is said to be hosting some 500 microfinance institutions (MFIs), only at most 430 are legal. Sixty are in the economic capital, Douala. Numerous others operating illegally were blamed for dubious interest rates, misappropriation, and unexplained deductions from savings that often led... Continue Reading
