WFP urges West African gov’ts. to invest more in school meals
DAKAR – The United Nations World Food Programme has urged governments in West Africa to invest more money in school meal programmes so these can...
Category : African News
Sierra Leone Judiciary to expedite cases ahead of March 7 polls
By Paul Ejime The Chief Justice of Sierra Leone, Justice Abdulai Hamid Charm has given an assurance that the Supreme Court will expedite action on...
Ahead of March 7 polls, S. Leone President meets ECOWAS Observers
By Paul Ejime Outgoing Sierra Leone’s President Ernest Bai Koroma on Wednesday 28 February, at the Presidential Lodge in Freetown received Prof. Amos Sawyer, Head...
Sierra Leone: Can the “Lion Mountain” Ever Roar Again?
By Paul Ejime, Contributing Writer After the recent fiercely contested presidential election in Liberia, world attention has turned to neighbouring Sierra Leone, which has its...
South Africa Invites Liberian Medical Scientist & Inventor Dr. Dougbeh Nyan
-To share research, Lecture at Regional Biomedical Conference Liberian medical scientist and inventor, Dr. Dougbeh Christopher Nyan has been invited to speak at the Southern...
Dr Amos Sawyer heads ECOWAS Observers for Sierra Leone polls
Liberia’s former interim President Dr. Amos Sawyer is heading a 55-member ECOWAS Observation Mission in neighbouring Sierra Leone. An ECOWAS press release said over the...
Amb. Wallace hails Deployment of ECOWAS Volunteers to Liberia
A training of 20 ECOWAS youth volunteers from Nigeria Benin, Ghana and Sierra Leone is taking place in the Liberian capital, Monrovia. It is being...
“Humanitarian Grand Challenge” to help conflict-affected communities
–Seeks bold new ideas LONDON / TORONTO – Today (Monday), the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Mark Green and UK Department for International Development (DFID)...
Weah proposes new program to “fast-track” Liberia development
Dakar, Senegal – President George Manneh Weah has proposed a new program dubbed the ‘New Life Program for Inclusive Finance’ (NLPIF). The program will be...
“Groundbreaking”: ECOWAS Court Rules against criminalizing speech
The West African journalists Association (WAJA) has welcomed as groundbreaking, the guilty verdict brought down by the ECOWAS Court against the Gambian Government in a case...