By Shout-Africa.com /Liberia Coordinator – Africa’s first democratically elected female leader says she set in facing a runoff election next month. She says she’s confident Liberians will vote for her in big numbers, but the first-round voting last Tuesday shows she is facing stiff competition after six years in power. News monitored in the Liberian capital has it that President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said late Sunday she is ready for a Nov. 8 runoff against Winston Tubman. With 96 percent of polling stations counted, she led with around 44 percent. Election officials said the remaining results won’t change much. The... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Tuesday, October 18th 2011 |
…As Sanitation Considered Economic Benefit – By: Augustine N. Myers, returning from India – The much talked about Global Forum on Sanitation and Hygiene in Mumbai, India has come and ended. It was indeed an exciting Meeting with exclusive focus on one of the world’s crucial but overlooked issues, “sanitation”. It is estimated that about 2.6 billion people around the world lack access to adequate sanitation. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there will be 2.7 billion people without sanitation, if the current trend continues. The Global Forum on Sanitation and Hygiene organized by the Water Supply & Sanitation... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Tuesday, October 18th 2011 |
By Peterking Quaye – The Executive Board and Staff of the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) extend their heartfelt congratulations to Her Excellency Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of the Republic of Liberia; Leymah Gbowee, Executive Director of WIPSEN/Member of the African Women Leaders Network for Reproductive Health and Family Planning (AWLN), and Tawakkul Karman, Human Rights activist, for being joint awardees of the Nobel Peace Prize 2011 for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work”. This award is a significant recognition of the efforts that all 3 women have... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Sunday, October 16th 2011 |
By Peterking Quaye – Liberia has been tagged as one of Africa’s most historic nation as a Liberian movie has entered this year’s Zimbabwe Intetnational Film Festival which took place from the 30th of September to the 7th of October 2011. The Zimbabwe International Film Festival under its new management is poised to become the leading and most vibrant African cinema event in Zimbabwe and the continent. With African short films, feature films and documentary films are about to rupture out of the confines and into the mainstream, the occasion has come to use quality African Films to promote the... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Sunday, October 16th 2011 |
Tamba Jean-Matthew III -14 October 2011 Accroding to theDaily Nations (On the Web) Presented by Shout-Africa.com/Liberia Coordinator- Liberia Election Compilation (LEIPC 2011). Reports from the Liberian capital suggest that Liberians defied all odds, including momentary downpour and sometimes long distances, and turned out in mass to cast their votes in Tuesday, 11 October, 2011 presidential and general elections. The elections were the first democratic exercise exclusively conducted by Liberians since the end of the civil conflict in 2003.The polls followed nearly three months of vigorous, but generally peaceful campaigns throughout the country by various Presidential candidates, including incumbent President Ellen... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Sunday, October 16th 2011 |
