By: Ohemeng Tawiah, Nhyira Fm/Kumasi-Ghana – Global Mission Readiness, an American based organization which provides emergency services education and resources to developing countries is to train the personnel of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) in the Afigya Kwabre District in the Ashanti region. The programme which will cover training of volunteers and staff of the district NADMO office is to equip them to be self reliant in the face of providing emergency services. It is under the invitation of the Afigya Kwabre District and the Agape Village of Hope International, a local NGO. Over hundred volunteer firefighters from over... Continue Reading
By Nangayi Guyson – Cairo – Embattled President Hosni Mubarak has stepped down as president of Egypt handing power to the military, Vice-President Omar Suleiman made an announcement on state TV. A source close to the government told AFP that Mubarak left Cairo with his family on Friday but his destination was not immediately clear. “Mubarak has left Cairo with all his family,” the source said, but refused to say whether the president had left the country or was headed to his residence in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. Mr Mubarak’s resignation, comes on the 18th day of... Continue Reading
By Kizito Makoye, Dar es Salaam – Tanzania government has sent an ‘emotional’ appeal to donors requesting for additional funding to bridge the yawning gap in its 2010/11 national budget. The move comes just weeks after the finance ministry’s permanent secretary Ramadhani Khijjah criticized donors for imposing stringent conditions on aid making it increasingly difficult to implement development programmes. According to the letter dated 19th January 2011; availed donors comprising the General Budget Support(GBS), Finance Minister Mustafa Mkulo explains that his government was caught up in unforeseen challenges in the course of implementing the budget. The minister says the government... Continue Reading
By Kizito Makoye, Dar es Salaam – Tanzania government has joined forces with South Korea’s investors to implement a 50-million dollars project in which 100,000 hectors of unused arable land are developed into large-scale irrigation farms. According to the director general of Tanzania’s state-run Rufiji Basin Development Authority(RUBADA) Aloyce Masanja, various food crops including rice paddies will be grown in a move aimed at boosting the country’s food security. According to Masanja experts from Korea are already working in the fields setting up irrigation systems in the valley located slightly over 100 kilometres south of commercial capital of Dar es... Continue Reading
By Gambia Correspondent – Alhagie Modou Jeng, the biological father to one Malick Jeng now deceased, and Dembo Bojang, yesterday denied murdering Malick Jeng when state prosecutors arraigned them at the Special Criminal Court in Banjul to answer a five-count indictment brought against them. They were charged with conspiracy to murder, administration of noxious substance to endanger or cause grievous harm, murder, rash or negligent act causing death and failure to provide the necessities of life and, thereby, endangering life. The indictment on count one stated that on 1st March 2010, at various places, the accused persons conspired among themselves... Continue Reading
