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.
In commemoration of Water Action Month as part of the globally observance of March as Water Action Month, the Liberia Civil Society Organizations WASH Network has embarked on series of activities.
Water Action Month is also in observance of World Water Day, usually celebrated on March 22. This year, World Water Day was celebrated under the theme; “Water and Jobs”.
The WASH CSOs Network has staged a number of sit in actions at key government Ministries and agencies that have some oversight when it comes to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in Liberia.
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.
From many indications, the hundreds of diverse potential investors the Ghana Transformational Agenda: An Opportunity for Business and Investment forum attracted at the Espace event gallery Tuesday in midtown Manhattan exhibited an immense success.
Surprisingly, a large number of Ghanaians in the Diaspora who attended the forum expressed their readiness to repatriate and invest in the development of their country.
