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SocietySierra Leone's Fragile Mangrove Forests Under Threat

Sunday, 07 March 2010

article thumbnailMangrove forests line much of Sierra Leone's coastline.  But these fragile ecosystems are under threat from increased human activity in coastal areas.  Sierra Leone has recently signed up...
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NewsSierra Leone Participates in Mass Polio Immunization

Sunday, 07 March 2010

article thumbnailSierra Leone is kicking off the first of three massive immunization campaigns against polio.  The program aims to reach over one million children nation-wide. The campaign is part of a larger...
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SocietyChild poverty in Sierra Leone

Friday, 05 March 2010

article thumbnail Musu Mbaimba and Hannah Brewah in their school uniform. It’s another beautifully sunny day in Kanga village, Sierra Leone. January is the middle of the dry season in tropical west...
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SocietyLaptops aid villagers

Friday, 05 March 2010

article thumbnailIn a small village in Sierra Leone, a group of children are gathered around a puddle. This puddle is more than water — it’s a breeding ground for mosquitoes and malaria.
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  • Côte d'Ivoire: UN Reiterates Support for Resumption of Electoral Process 0:33 (GMT) - 12.03.2010

    The United Nations Representative in Côte d'Ivoire met today with the new President of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) in a bid to reenergize a stalled electoral process further delayed by last month's dissolution of the Government and deadly street protests.

  • Nigeria: Senate Okays 5 Special Advisers for Jonathan 0:27 (GMT) - 12.03.2010

    THE Senate, Thursday, approved the request from Acting President Goodluck Jonathan seeking its approval to appoint five special advisers.

  • Nigeria: Senate Rejects New Pay for Gowon, Buhari, IBB 0:27 (GMT) - 12.03.2010

    THE Senate, Thursday, passed into law a bill creating extra remuneration packages besides statutory pensions for former leaders of the country, but left out former heads of government who were not democratically-elected.

  • Nigeria: Governors Never Halted Yar'Adua's Sack, Says Ohakim 0:27 (GMT) - 12.03.2010

    Governor Ikedi Ohakim of Imo State said there was no time the 36 state governors decided that Acting President Goodluck Jonathan should remain in acting capacity while ailing President Umaru Yar'Adua remain the President.

  • Nigeria: Dangote Makes Forbes Rich Men's List, as Otedola Drops Out 0:27 (GMT) - 12.03.2010

    ALHAJI Aliko Dangote, Nigerian born billionaire commodity merchant, industrialist has again made it on the list of the world richest men alive, according to a Forbes World Richest Billionaires released yesterday. But his friend and arch rival, Femi Otedola has, however, dropped out of the list probably due to the stock market crash that has gravely eroded his fortune.

  • Nigeria: 2011 Presidency - Emerging Power Play 23:55 (GMT) - 11.03.2010

    Until February 24 unexpected return of ailing President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua from Saudi Arabia hospital, the North was already shopping for a Vice President.

  • NIGER: Southern villages emptying as drought bites

    TANOUT Wednesday, March 10, 2010 (IRIN) - "Empty" increasingly describes villages around the southern Niger town of Tanout in Zinder Region: Water wells and pastures, fields and food banks - and slowly - entire villages, are emptying.

  • AFRICA: Funding shortfalls foil new treatment guidelines

    NAIROBI Tuesday, March 09, 2010 (IRIN) - Global funding shortfalls for fighting AIDS could make it impossible for developing countries to implement new World Health Organization treatment guidelines, activists have said.

  • CHAD: Wipe out corruption, wipe out polio

    DAKAR Wednesday, March 10, 2010 (IRIN) - It costs more to vaccinate a child in Chad against polio - almost 70 US cents per child - than in any other country in the world at risk of polio outbreaks, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

  • NIGERIA: Violence delays polio vaccinations

    DAKAR Tuesday, March 09, 2010 (IRIN) - A polio vaccination campaign in the violence-wracked central Nigerian city of Jos has been delayed until 13 March due to the violence and a recent health worker strike, aid workers said.

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  • Sierra Leone: Ecobank acquires ProCredit 20:18 (GMT) - 9.03.2010

    ProCredit bank (SL) Ltd Sierra Leone has announced that they are unable to meet the 'new' regulation of the Sierra Leone's Central Bank and therefore will soon pass off ownership to Ecobank. The transfer will enable Ecobank to expand business operations in the microfinance sector and thus strengthening the group of 30 affiliated banks…

  • Ghana invite Malaysia in oil exploration 20:03 (GMT) - 9.03.2010

    The Ghana High Commissioner to Malaysia, Daniel Abodakpi has extended a warm hand of friendship for Malaysian experts to partner Ghana in its oil and gas industry. The High Commissioner expressed this sentiment at a reception organised to mark the 53rd Independence Anniversary of Ghana which fell on Saturday 6th March 2010. The reception was attended…

  • Standard Bank, OFID sign deal 9:37 (GMT) - 9.03.2010

    South Africa's Standard Bank and the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Fund for International Development (OFID) launched two unique African development financing initiatives. The first of the OFID/Standard Bank initiatives is a smallholder Risk Sharing Agreement, which is to work in support of the Agriculture Guarantee Fund…

  • Emirates Airline unveils new route to Dakar 4:16 (GMT) - 9.03.2010

    Emirates Airlines has unveiled its intention to commence direct flights to the Senegalese capital, Dakar. According to a statement released Monday by the embassy of United Arab Emirates (UAE) in Dakar, the airlines said from the 1st September it will commence its non-stop flights to the Senegalese capital, five times a week. According to the statement,…

  • Ethiopia expands oil exploration 14:06 (GMT) - 5.03.2010

    Ethiopia has seen an increasing number of oil exploration companies over the past ten years. Oil exploration in that country started in 2000 by the Hunt Oil, an American company. The country can now boast of about eleven companies all exploring oil. The eleven companies are working in petroleum exploration and prospecting with the 19 agreements in…

  • Ethiopia: Firm sign deal with Tullow Oil 13:04 (GMT) - 4.03.2010

    SouthWest Energy (Ethiopia), a company largely owned by Tewodros Ashenafi, struck a deal with Tullow Oil Plc of the United Kingdom (UK) last week, reliable sources disclosed. SouthWest Energy secured three blocks that cover 29,000 square kilometres in the Ogaden Basin of Eastern Ethiopia, after it signed a product sharing agreement with the Ministry…

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