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July 15, 2019

Kenya To Host International Conference On Population And Development

July 15, 2019/ Theo Edwards

Kenya To Host International Conference On Population And Development

Plans are underway to host the 25th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development in Nairobi, Kenya on the 12-14 November 2019. The Nairobi Summit On ICPD25 - Accelerating The Promise, when governments and stakeholders will gather in Kenya. The Summit will convened by the Government of Kenya, the Government of Denmark, and the UNFPA.

By Sylvester Samba

July 13, 2019

Future of Ghana’s Oil Hangs on Local Participation

July 13, 2019/ Theo Edwards

Future of Ghana’s Oil Hangs on Local Participation

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Ghana Gas, Mr. Ben Asante, said, the oil and gas industry cannot develop if the country fails to train local people to work in the industry.

By Benson Afful

July 13, 2019

Flood Victims Continue To Languish

July 13, 2019/ Theo Edwards

Flood Victims Continue To Languish

The flood victims, since their relocation 15th November 2015 by the former APC Bai Koroma led government continues to live in very deplorable and appalling condition. Life' struggle is on a daily basis not only to find food but also lack access to clean drinking water, toilet facilities, school, and marketplace. Millions of US dollars in international aid poured into the country. Also, millions of Leones and local supplies donated to the victims of the flood in 2015.

By Sylvester Samba

July 12, 2019

Ghana Working On Petroleum Transportation Infrastructure Master Plan

July 12, 2019/ Theo Edwards

Ghana Working On Petroleum Transportation Infrastructure Master Plan

The quest to make Ghana a petroleum hub has begun as the government is currently working on a Petroleum Transportation Infrastructure Master Plan, aimed at enhancing the pace of infrastructure construction to serve the sub-Regional petroleum industry, the Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has said.

By Benson Afful

July 05, 2019

Ghana Fishing Stock Threatened

July 05, 2019/ Theo Edwards

Ghana Fishing Stock Threatened

Ghana’s fish stock fast depleting and likely collapse if measures not put in place. Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development, Naa Afoley Quaye, revealed.

By Benson Afful

July 04, 2019

Human Relief Foundation (HRF) Feeds Vulnerable People In Sierra Leone

July 04, 2019/ Theo Edwards

Human Relief Foundation (HRF) Feeds Vulnerable People In Sierra Leone

A humanitarian organization based in the United Kingdom and France, has in collaboration with International Islamic Youth League Sierra Leone and the Government of President Julius Maada Bio donated large quantities of food items to about five hundred (vulnerable homes) at Six Mile on the outskirts of the capital city of Freetown and Port Loko district in Northern Sierra Leone.

By Sylvester Samba

July 02, 2019

ECOWAS States Adopted Single Trade Currency 'ECO'

July 02, 2019/ Theo Edwards

ECOWAS States Adopted Single Trade Currency 'ECO'

AFRICA NEWS UPDATE: The ECOWAS states adopted single trade currency 'ECO.'

June 28, 2019

President Bio’s Govt. Impressed With First Iron Ore Shipment

June 28, 2019/ Theo Edwards

President Bio’s Govt. Impressed With First Iron Ore Shipment

SL Mining Limited, a subsidiary of ‘Gerald Group’ announced the first shipment of iron ore concentrate, branded ‘Marampa Blue’ which set sail on MV Cooper from Freetown Port (Queen Elizabeth II), in Sierra Leone.

By Sylvester Samba: Courtesy: SL Mining

June 27, 2019

All Students To Be Under Free SHS From September

June 27, 2019/ Theo Edwards

All Students To Be Under Free SHS From September

Already the government has spent about GHc 800 million on the free SHS policy since its implementation, and this is expected to increase in the next budget.

By Benson Afful

June 26, 2019

FCC Unveils 49 New Classrooms with Support from Make-It-Happen, a UK Charity Organisation

June 26, 2019/ Theo Edwards

FCC Unveils 49 New Classrooms with Support from Make-It-Happen, a UK Charity Organisation

With funding from Make-It-Happen, a UK Charity Organisation, FCC constructed 20, 18 and 11 classrooms at Henry Fergusson Municipal School, Fattah Rahman Municipal School and E.B. Williams Municipal School respectively.

Courtesy: Freetown City Council (FCC) #Transform Freetown

June 25, 2019

Rubber Farmers Take Over Cocoa Farms

June 25, 2019/ Theo Edwards

Rubber Farmers Take Over Cocoa Farms

According to Mr. Boafo, about 2,000 farmers are affected by the decision of the chiefs to pull down the cocoa trees. The affected areas include Akim Breman, Kuro dua, and Asikasu Odumase all in the Upper West Akim District.

By Benson Afful

June 19, 2019

Pwalugu Dam construction takeoff soon

June 19, 2019/ Theo Edwards

Pwalugu Dam construction takeoff soon

The project will result in the development of a 20,000-hectare irrigation scheme, the largest in the country and will boost agriculture and other economic activities in Upper and North East regions.

By Benson Afful

June 17, 2019

Egypt Host 1st African Anti-Corruption Forum

June 17, 2019/ Theo Edwards

Egypt Host 1st African Anti-Corruption Forum

Egypt Host 1st African Anti-Corruption Forum as Africa loses over US$50 Billion.

According to the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, corruption costs Africa over US$148 billion per annum – ‘equivalent to 50% of tax revenue and 25% of African GDP.’ Mostly through Illicit transactions by multinational corporations through corrupt practices, continue to deprive countries much needed financial resources.

By Sylvester Samba

June 10, 2019

Power and Industrialization Drive

June 10, 2019/ Theo Edwards

Power and Industrialization Drive

President Akufo-Addo’s administration has set an ambitious district industrialization agenda, known as the One district One factory policy, which his government intends to achieve to move Ghana from one that exports raw materials to a value-added industrialized economy.

By Benson Afful

June 03, 2019

500 Schools To Get Free Internet Connectivity In Sierra Leone

June 03, 2019/ Theo Edwards

500 Schools To Get Free Internet Connectivity In Sierra Leone

Plans are underway to connect 500 schools and 16 district libraries across Sierra Leone with free high-speed internet in the first phase of a project named; Project One Access & Connectivity For Schools.”

By Sylvester Samba

May 24, 2019

Banking, Real Estate & Technology, Headquartered in Rwanda

May 24, 2019/ Theo Edwards

Mara’s technology ventures capitalizes on the rapidly growing smartphone and internet markets creating a suite of platforms that are tailored locally.

Why Africa? “The Lion Awakes: Adventures in Africa’s Economic Miracle” by Ashish J. Thakkar is the true story of today’s Africa, one often overshadowed by the dire headlines. Traveling from his ancestral home in Uganda, East Africa, to the booming economy and (if chaotic) new democracies of West Africa, and down to the “Silicon Savannahs” of Kenya and Rwanda, Ashish J. Thakkar shows us an Africa that few Westerners are aware exists.

By Theo Edwards

May 22, 2019

Pregnant School Girls Await ECOWAS Court Decision

May 22, 2019/ Theo Edwards

Pregnant School Girls Await ECOWAS Court Decision

In suit no. ECW/CCJ/APP/22/18, the Women Against Violence and Exploitation In Society (WAVES) and Child Welfare Society, Sierra Leone (CWS-SL), who are acting on behalf of the Pregnant Adolescent School Girls in Sierra-Leone, described the policy as grossly unlawful, discriminatory, against the interest of the victims, a violation of their rights to education and non-discrimination.

By Sylvester Samba

May 20, 2019

ECOWAS member-states with potential to developing renewable energy

May 20, 2019/ Theo Edwards

ECOWAS member-states with potential to developing renewable energy

As part of its "Regional Off-Grid Electrification Project (ROGEP)," the ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE) organize a regional validation workshop for the Draft Standards for Electrodomestic Appliances and Regional Standard for Plug and Play Solar Home Systems Kits. May 21 – 22, 2019 in Plateau at the Hotel Fleur de Lys - Dakar, Senegal.

By Sylvester Samba

May 19, 2019

Prison Watch (SL) Concern Over Juvenile Detention Center

May 19, 2019/ Theo Edwards

Prison Watch (SL) Concern Over Juvenile Detention Center

The President of Sierra Leone grants Presidential Pardon to 10 juveniles. Through the advocacy group, Prison Watch Sierra Leone, in collaboration with the current Director Public Prosecution (DPP), Easmon Nathanael Ngakui. Mr. Ngakui subscribed to the Oat 15th February 2019.

As of 16th May, 2019, the detention population in the juvenile centers include the following; Remand Home at Kingtom house fifty-five boys and two girls, Approved School, Wellington, twenty-three boys and two girls and the Bo Remand Home is housing fourty-one boys.

The Juvenile clemency executed by the President was the first in the history of the republic.

By Sylvester Samba

May 15, 2019

Sierra Leone New Minerals Policy Meet International Standards

May 15, 2019/ Theo Edwards

Sierra Leone New Minerals Policy Meet International Standards

Since 1930, Sierra Leone is yet to benefit from its mineral endowment due to bad governance and disorganized structures in the mineral sector.

Initiatives relevant to mineral sector governance and management captures recent developments in the mining sector in Sierra Leone and position the mineral sector at the heart of achieving Sierra Leone’s long-term vision for sustainable growth and transformational development.

World Bank through the Extractive Industries Technical Assistance Project (EITAP) providing both financial and technical support.

By Sylvester Samba

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