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The Gabonese Journalist Who Built A Multi-Million Dollar Media Relations Company

News Public TrustDecember 10, 2018December 10, 2018

by News Public TrustDecember 10, 2018December 10, 2018044

SOURCE Forbes/APO Forbes interviews the founder of APO Group, a leading media relations consulting firm and press release distribution service in Africa and the Middle...

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Liberia recommits to ECOWAS free trade barrier removal

News Public TrustDecember 3, 2018December 3, 2018

by News Public TrustDecember 3, 2018December 3, 2018142

-Commerce Minister Wilson Tarpeh at WAMZ Confab Abuja, Nigeria- Liberia’s Minister of Commerce and Industry, Professor Wilson K. Tarpeh, has reiterated the country’s commitment to the...

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Journalists: the bête noire-targets-of organized crime

News Public TrustNovember 29, 2018November 29, 2018

by News Public TrustNovember 29, 2018November 29, 2018029

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) held a press conference on Thursday in Paris to unveil a report entitled: “Journalists: the bête noire of organized crime” that shines a light...

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AfDB urges power sector to capitalize on women’s capabilities

News Public TrustNovember 2, 2018November 2, 2018

by News Public TrustNovember 2, 2018November 2, 2018037

Women represent only 20 percent of employees in the African power sector and less than ten percent of engineers ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast – The African...

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7 years after Boko Haram attack, ‘UN House’ opens for business

News Public TrustOctober 28, 2018

by News Public TrustOctober 28, 2018018

-Diplomats in Abuja hail UN on return to ‘UN House’ Abuja-The Diplomatic Community in Abuja has congratulated the United Nations System in Nigeria for its...

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AfDB launches US$500M landmark insurance credit deal in Africa

News Public TrustOctober 23, 2018October 23, 2018

by News Public TrustOctober 23, 2018October 23, 2018038

This transaction is expected to have an important demonstration effect to encourage similar institutions to invest more on the continent in the future LONDON, United...

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In Senegal: Teen Girls Sexually Exploited, Harassed in Schools

News Public TrustOctober 18, 2018

by News Public TrustOctober 18, 2018033

-HRW calls for end to Culture of Silence; Act Against Abusive Teachers (Dakar, October 18, 2018) – Abusive teachers and other staff sexually exploit, harass,...

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ECONEC advocating cost-effective but credible elections in West Africa

News Public TrustOctober 16, 2018

by News Public TrustOctober 16, 2018062

By Paul Ejime The ECOWAS Network of Electoral Commissions (ECONEC) has called on electoral management bodies (EMBs) in the region to reappraise election funding towards...

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More journalists killed in first 9 months of 2018 than in all 2017- RFS

News Public TrustOctober 12, 2018October 12, 2018

by News Public TrustOctober 12, 2018October 12, 2018023

More professional journalists were killed worldwide in connection with their work in the first nine months of 2018 than in all of 2017, according to...

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World Bank: If countries act now, children born today could be healthier

News Public TrustOctober 12, 2018October 12, 2018

by News Public TrustOctober 12, 2018October 12, 2018055

-And wealthier, more productive BALI, Indonesia -A New World Bank Human Capital Index measures how much countries lose in economic productivity by under-investing in their...