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April 2013

Accra, Ghana – A five-day training for CSOs in Liberia opens today in Monrovia, capital of Liberia.  17 civil society organisations (CSOs) will from Monday April 29 to Friday May 3, 2013, have their institutional

GENEVA, 29 APRIL 2013: The number of people internally displaced by armed conflict, violence and human rights violations at the end of 2012 was 28.8 million, an increase of 2.4 million people on the previous

Infrastructure, growing technology sector, proximity to Africa, Middle-East and Europe make Istanbul ideal location ISTANBUL, Turkey, April 29, 2013/ -- Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) President and Chief Executive Officer Fadi Chehadé today

A three member panel consisting of Africans from the Continent, Caribbean and the United States recently held a ROOTS and STARS: “Prayer Spears” series discussion on multiple expressions of one of the highest mandates of

The Attitudinal and Behavioural Change (ABC) Secretariat has successfully completed a one-day workshop targeting various public service institutions in the country.  (Photo: Hon. Alpha Kanu launching the ABC Magazine) The workshop held on Thursday 18th April 2012

Four Sierra Leonean UK based footballers have confirmed they will be attending the Salone Beats Festival Concert and After Party. Kei Ansu Kamara (in photo) is a Sierra Leonean footballer who plays for Norwich City in

Sierra Leonean born Nathaniel Chalobah (in photo), wonder striker in the first-half against Leicester on Friday, has kept the Watford race for automatic promotion alive in the Npower English premier league. The 18-year-old midfielder, on loan

The Sierra Leone Embassy in Riyadh in collaboration with the Sierra Leone Nationals’ Union (SLNU) offered special prayers for their beloved country Friday, 26th April, 2013, a day before the 52nd Independence Anniversary celebrations. On display

Accra, Ghana – His Lordship, Justice Resolu John Bankole-Thompson, a Sierra Leonean judge who served as a judge of the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone and member of the West Africa Commission on Drugs

Honoring the invitation of US President Barack Obama to a meeting at the White House (with the Heads of State of Senegal, Malawi and Cape Verde), Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma spent a four-day

CAPE-TOWN, South-Africa, April 26, 2013/ -- More than 120 HIV clinicians, policy makers, and laboratory scientists gathered in Cape Town, South Africa from 18-20 April 2013 at the invitation of the African Society for Laboratory

Sierra Leone is celebrating the third anniversary of the free health care initiative (launched April 27th 2010) which gears towards reducing the unaccepted deaths in the vulnerable groups of women and children. This scheme guarantees

Freetown, April 24, 2013. After two days of discussions on the status of implementation of the West Africa Agricultural Productivity Program (WAAPP) in the 13 countries that have led to the proposal of solutions to

The issue of politics and the judiciary is an interesting episode unraveling in the contemporary world. As a student of international relations and conflict resolutions, I am bemused and bewildered at the role of the

Nairobi, Kenya, April, 23rd 2013 – Bharti Airtel (“Airtel”), a leading telecommunications service provider with operations in 20 countries across South Asia and Africa, has remained steadfastly committed to providing its customers with cutting edge