His Excellency, President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma has on Thursday 4th July, 2013, attended the Millennium Challenge Coordinating Unit (MCCU) presentation of a diagnostic study of the Sierra Leone economy as well identifying binding constraints to private investments and broad-based growth at the Credentials Hall, Office of the President, State House, Freetown. According to State House Chief of Staff, Dr Richard Konteh who presided over the presentation ceremony, the meeting was to present cabinet ministers with an opportunity to go through the report, backed with a CD containing the detailed report, who are then expected to share details of the... Continue Reading
By: WASH R&E Network – Appalling, unhealthy and worrisome, “this is how some residents have described the sanitary condition of the capital, Monrovia and environs”. The sanitary condition of Liberia’s capital and surroundings is becoming an issue that needs the urgent attention of relevant agencies of Government, especially the Monrovia City Corporation, (MCC), which has the constitutional mandate to keep Monrovia clean and green. Several parts and surroundings are filthy with no sign of efforts shown to remove the stockpile of garbage that has taken over Monrovia. A case in point is the Waterside General Market around Johansson, is one... Continue Reading
… To Chloral, Diarrhoea Outbreak – By: WASH R&E Network – Hundreds of residents within slum communities in Monrovia and its environs are said to be at risk of falling prey to water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) related diseases, as the rainy season deepens. The Environmental Health Division, the Department of the Montserrado County Health Team responsible for occupational food safety, water and sanitation, food inspection and routine business inspection says, about twenty-six communities are seriously vulnerable to cholera and diarrhea outbreak. These communities include central Monrovia, Soniwen, Buzzy Quarter, West Point, Slipway, Clara Town, Doe Community, Sayon Town, Logan... Continue Reading
Harare: Politicians on Tuesday shared a panel to discuss careers in politics in a special DefZee Presents Food for Thought Session at the U.S. Embassy Public Affairs Section. DefZee is an online publication for youth in Zimbabwe. The DefZee discussion series is held monthly for youth to hear from working professionals about the nuts and bolts of a wide range of careers. Tuesday’s session featured three elected politicians and two candidates running for the first time in this year’s elections. The speakers included two women: Honorable Lucia Matibenga, MDC MP for Kuwadzana, founding member of the MDC, and the first Chairperson of... Continue Reading
HARARE, 21 June 2013 (IRIN) – Standing in a winding queue in downtown Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital, Judith Kapito, 38, cannot hide her excitement: she is waiting to receive a new identity document, one that will offer her rights and opportunities she has long been deprived of. Kapito was born to Malawian parents who migrated to Zimbabwe – then Southern Rhodesia – in 1960. She lost her citizenship in 2001, when the government’s amendment of the Citizenship Act forced those born of alien parents to renounce their foreign citizenship. Kapito, who was born in Zimbabwe and registered as a national of... Continue Reading
