Bulawayo, July, 2013: 40 Zimbabwean students drawn from economically disadvantaged backgrounds used the belated Day of the African Child commemorations last Saturday to showcase their accomplishments through the U.S. Embassy sponsored English Access Microscholarship program being piloted in two centers in Bulawayo. The English Access Microscholarship program is being implemented by the Hope for a Child in Christ (HOCIC) in Bulawayo and has two cohorts based in Nkulumane & Entumbane townships. The kids took turns to recite African and American poetry laced with marimba and acapella music drawing cheers from the audience that comprised students and teachers from three schools... Continue Reading
By Dennis Kabatto – Ruby Johnson is not your typical beauty pageant Queen. Just over a month after her homecoming trip to Sierra Leone to mark the country’s 52nd Independence Anniversary, Miss Sierra Leone USA Ruby Johnson is back in Freetown to undertake a hard-hat internship with Octea Mining (formerly Koidu Holdings Ltd.). A mining engineering student in the US, Ruby is set to spend the next two months at Octea’s diamond mining site in Koidu, Kono in the Eastern Province getting first-hand experience of the industry in Sierra Leone. Ruby will travel back and forth to Freetown meeting with... Continue Reading
….of new registrar and registry agreements – DURBAN, South Africa, July 15, 2013/ — The first group of Internet Registries and Registrars has signed new agreements with ICANN (http://www.icann.org), bringing new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) into the home stretch of going live online. “This is a huge accomplishment,” said Fadi Chehadé, ICANN President and CEO. “We can see the last mile before the first new TLD is activated in the Internet’s root.” Chehadé made the comments during a ceremonial signing at the opening session of ICANN’s 47th Public Meeting in Durban, South Africa. Three companies signed the Registry Agreement (RA) while five others signed... Continue Reading
….Sixty One Communities Free of Open Defecation – A total of sixty one communities in Bong, Lofa and Nimba counties have been declared Open Defecation Free (ODF) after a meticulous process conducted by the government of Liberia with support from the USAID-funded IWASH Project jointly implemented by CHF International and PSI. The IWASH Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) Project Manager, Madam Elizabeth Geddeh said the government of Liberia, with support from IWASH, triggered one hundred twenty communities in February this year and that the sixty one communities are the first batch to achieve ODF, with the last celebration which took place... Continue Reading
By Dennis Kabatto – As the debate over whether to repeal or invoke Sierra Leone’s Public Order Act of 1965 intensifies, two journalists Kashope Holland-Cole, managing editor and Ibrahim Samura, editor of the Prime Time newspaper have respectively offered a public apology and retracted false and malicious defamatory articles they published against Attorney Adekunle King. The retraction and public apology is part of an agreement mediated by the president of Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) Mr. Kelvin Lewis and his executive for Attorney King to drop pending criminal charges and civil lawsuit against Prime Times newspaper, Mr. Cole and... Continue Reading
