The issue of flooding in the Nation’s capital, Monrovia and other parts of the country remains unabated due to the heavy down poor of rain, poor drainages and the construction of buildings in waterways. This has resulted to flooding in recent days in most parts of the capital, with several residents losing their personal belongings and rendering them homeless.
It has been established that not all funds that were disbursed for climate change did go directly go to address the issues that were aimed for. This information came in the work of the presentation ‘Tanzania: Disbursements of International Climate Finance, 2010 -2013” The workshop was conducted at the Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF) conference room on August 4th this year. Presenting this paper was Prof. Pius Yanda from the Institute of Resource Assessment (IRA), of the University Dar es Salaam (UDSM). He said that his report is a synthesis of responses from various stakeholders in the Climate Change awareness campaign.
One main challenge for politicians in Tanzania as the country is approaching General Elections in October 25th next month is the predetermined place for the youngsters. Shout-africa.com registered itself in two separate activities by students in tertiary institutions of education and there were the same demands; social transformation. On August 29th at the Ubungo Plaza there was a workshop for the youngsters to deliberate on their fate in the wake of the forthcoming General Elections.
The Ministry of Health’s National Technical Coordinating Unit (NTCU) recently completed a tour of Liberia’s five border counties in which Global Communities is working to help people take responsibility of their own health and hygiene through Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS). Global Communities’ Communications Officer accompanied Hattie Payweyne of the NTCU and Jeremiah Pewu of the Grand Cape Mount County Steering Committee (CSC), the county-level body responsible for overseeing CLTS, to verify
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.