Cotonou – Carla Bruni-Sarkozy and Melinda Gates visited Global Fund-supported programs in Benin today to promote the need to invest in women and children’s health. After decades of neglect, promotion of prevention of mother-to-child transmission has acquired new urgency. By the end of 2008, 45 percent of pregnant HIV-positive women were being reached with preventive [...]
Dar es Salaam (IITA) – The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and its partners the Agricultural Research Institute (ARI), Tanzania, and the National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO), Uganda, have received a US$2.4 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to identify and use molecular markers for faster and more accurate breeding of [...]
Johannesburg, 14 January 2010, Following recent inaccurate media reporting, Zimbabwe Bio Energy (ZBE) wishes to set the record straight with regards to Nuanetsi Ranch. The Development Trust of Zimbabwe (DTZ) has entered into a joint venture with Zimbabwe Bio Energy with a view of unlocking the true economic value of Nuanetsi Ranch. The DTZ [...]
The Washington Metropolitan Chapter and APC NORTH AMERICA is sad to report the sudden death of our brother and comrade Mr. Joseph Cole commonly called Pa. Cole (super delegate of the Washington Metropolitan Chapter). Pa. Cole was a strong member of the APC .NA and founding member of the Washington Metropolitan Chapter. He is [...]
Washington, November 19, 2009—–Naziha Réjiba, editor of the Tunisian online news journal Kalima, said she knows what to expect when she returns home—surveillance, harassment, and threats conducted by one the world’s most repressive governments.
“While I’m speaking, many homes of Tunisian journalists are completely surrounded,” Réjiba, one of four recipients of the 2009 International Press [...]
Following the suspension of the Republic of Guinea from the African Union (AU) Commission, Sierra Leone has been selected to serve as a member of the Bureau of the Sub-Committee on Refugees of the AU on an interim basis in place of Guinea.The decision was unanimously agreed upon by ECOWAS Ambassadors based in Addis Ababa, [...]
The second batch of 18 Sierra Leonean pilgrims arrived at the King Abdul Aziz International Airport, Jeddah for this year’s Muslim pilgrimage, Monday, November 18, 2009. They arrived on board Royal Air Maroc (RAM) at about 7: 35 P.M Saudi Arabian time and were warmly received by First Secretaries of the Sierra Leone Embassy, Mr. [...]
The Sierra Leone delegation on Tuesday 17th November 2009, stated at a donor’s meeting on ‘Post-Conflict Employment Creation, Income-generation and Reintegration’ at the Julia Taft Conference Room in the Millennium Plaza in New York, that a critical area of attention is youth unemployment.
“One of the burning problems that is giving my President sleepless nights is [...]
In the UK today, like in many countries around the world, there is an important and lively debate among politicians, the media, and representatives of civil society about reducing harmful drinking. These debates have partly been stimulated by the World Health Organization (WHO). Next year, the WHO’s decision-making body will agree on a global strategy [...]
The Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Sierra Leone Mission to the United Nations today (Thursday 12th November, 2009) told the General Assembly that the African Group is impatient to get their request for at least two Seats in both Permanent and Non-permanent categories of the Security Council.
His Excellency Mr. Shekou M. Touray was making [...]
Addis Ababa – The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria’s Board of Directors has made an overall approval of grants with a two-year commitment of US$2.4 billion. It is the ninth time the Global Fund Board approved new proposals to support programs fighting the three diseases. The total two-year value of the programs [...]
