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What Sierra Leone’s budget did not say The Ebola outbreak last year seriously dented the country’s economic outlook. Now as the fightback begins to resuscitate the economy, those in charge of the country’s finances should be more open about the…
Comments Off / 105 View / 28th January 2016
The Lebanese waste saga. On the serious count of false pretence: guilty! He presented himself as an adviser to the President, on that 7th of January letter when in fact, he was not. He was and is a Member of Parliament. …
Comments Off / 143 View / 28th January 2016
Prime Minister in Sierra Leone: After more than 40 years of a presidential political system, the country is set to return to a political regime under which a prime minister will have executive powers – as was the case in…
Comments Off / 121 View / 28th January 2016
The World Bank Group today unveiled a new plan that calls for $16 billion in funding to help African people and countries adapt to climate change and build up the continent’s resilience to climate shocks. Titled Accelerating Climate-Resilient and Low-Carbon…
Comments Off / 166 View / 25th November 2015
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Food Programme (WFP) has stepped up its activities in South Sudan after the recently released Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) revealed that nearly 237,000 children in the country are estimated…
Comments Off / 109 View / 29th October 2015
The fight against tuberculosis is paying off, with this year’s death rate nearly half of what it was in 1990. Nevertheless, 1.5 million people died from TB in 2014. Most of these deaths could have been prevented, according to WHO’s…
Comments Off / 123 View / 29th October 2015
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The Meeting of Senior Experts of the First Specialized Technical Committee (STC) on Education Science and Technology (EST) has begun at the AU Commission Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Scores of participants including experts, Senior Education, Science and Technology Officials…
Comments Off / 86 View / 29th October 2015
Companies in Nigeria and the rest of the region who do not embrace the digital world will be at a serious disadvantage to their competitors West African enterprises that want to keep pace with a changing consumer, employee and business…
Comments Off / 98 View / 27th October 2015
The Peace and Security Council of the African Union (AU), at its 553rd meeting held on 21 October 2015, received a briefing on the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak and post-Ebola recovery efforts in the three most affected countries in…
Comments Off / 75 View / 26th October 2015
Never before in the history of polio have so few children in so few countries contracted the crippling virus – but we cannot rest until the number of cases is zero, UNICEF said on the eve of World Polio Day….
Comments Off / 120 View / 23rd October 2015