By: Augustine N. Myers – The newly elected Bishop of the Lutheran Church in Liberia, Rev. Dr. Daniel Jessen Seyenkulo has made his first County tour, since he took over as Head of the Church in Liberia, replacing the former Bishop of the Lutheran Church in Liberia, Rev. Dr. Smallwood Harris. Bishop Seyenkulo’s visit was designed to assess activities of the Lutheran Development Service in Liberia (LDS), the development arm of the Lutheran Church in Liberia. Bishop Seyenkulo was escorted to Nimba and Bong counties by the Executive Director of the Lutheran Development Service, Mr. Joseph S. Binda, on a... Continue Reading
HARARE, 19 December 2012 (IRIN) – Security forces are being deployed across Zimbabwe ostensibly to record accounts of the country’s liberation struggle against white-minority rule, but both political parties and independent analysts view the tactic as a prelude to political violence ahead of next year’s scheduled elections. In the aftermath of the violent 2008 polls, a government of national unity was formed between President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF and two wings of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). It was decreed that both presidential and parliamentary elections would be held simultaneously between March and October 2013. But no date has yet... Continue Reading
Brand new music site for mobile social network’s millions of users – iROKING, Africa’s number one music site announces that is has joined forces with one of the continent’s leading mobile social networks, Eskimi, to bring the very best African artists, directly to users’ mobiles. The new site, music.eskimi.com is for the exclusive use of Eskimi’s millions of users, more than 5 million of which are in Nigeria. Registered Eskimi users can download tracks from iROKING’s catalogue of 35,000+ tracks from over 400 of West Africa’s top recording artists, directly onto their mobile viamusic.eskimi.com. The new mobi site, designed exclusively for Eskimi... Continue Reading
By Morkporkpor Anku (Accra) – Ghana’s Electoral Commission has declared the incumbent leader John Dramani Mahama as the new president in the West African state in the Friday December 7 elections. Mahama, who replaced the late president John Atta Mills after his death in July, pulled 5,574,761 votes representing 50.70 percent of the ballots cast as against his closest contender Nana Akufo-Addo who to 5,248,898 votes representing 47.74 per cent. Dr Kwadwo Afari-Gyan Chairman of Ghana’s Electoral Commission based on the results, declare President Dramani Mahama president elect at a news conference in the capital Accra. This year’s election was... Continue Reading
A two day workshop organized by the WASH R&E in partnership with the Liberia Media Empowerment and Advocacy Foundation (LIMEAF inc.)
