… As Liberia, SIERRA LEONE Prepare for Global Conference – BY: WASH R&E Network-Liberia – A 2-day High Level Inter-Ministerial Meeting on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in Monrovia with delegates from Liberia and Sierra Leone committing their respective Governments and peoples to three main areas that could address the problems of WASH in both Countries. The delegates committed their Countries to ensuring WASH Sector Financing, Institutional Reforms and quality service provision for the wellbeing of their peoples. According to a dispatch from WASH Reporters & Editors Network of Liberia, the delegates made the commitment Thursday, at the close of the two... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, March 28th 2012 |
By: Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon – In the midst of the verifiable achievements and the pillaging and abuse of the past years, there is a compelling need, like Sorious Samura has done in the current ‘Timbergate scandal’, to gainfully redirect the consciousness of Sierra Leoneans. Because from all indications, it appears ninety percent of Sierra Leoneans are ‘munkus’; five percent are ‘semi-munkus’ and the remaining five percent are the smart ones ‘using’ the rest of us as pawns and playing games with our lives, resources and common wealth. We have always known that corruption is one of the biggest afflictions that... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Tuesday, November 29th 2011 |
…Liberian Partners also Attend -By: Augustine N. Myers In Bo – WaterAid, an International Organization working in the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Sector(WASH), has held a Mid-Term Review in Bo, Sierra Leone aimed at assessing Organization’s and partners’ achievement against commitments in the Multi-Year Plan and Budget for year 2011/2012. At the 3-day Intensive exercise organized by LiberiaAid Liberia and Sierra Leone, key highlights were made to identify challenges and lessons and discuss on making appropriate decisions around overcoming bottlenecks that tend to hinder progress. The Mid-Year Review brought together 33 participants from Liberia and Sierra Leone, including WaterAid Staff &... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Sunday, November 13th 2011 |
By Aroun Rashid Deen NY, USA – How history has come to pass, again, ghoulishly! This time, its victim: the revered self-proclaimed king of Sub-Saharan Africa, the flamboyant narcissist, Muammar Ghaddafi. History – in its chilling form – is not going to end with him because man, in his stubbornness to want to hold on to absolute power at all times at all costs, gets blinded, dumbed and deafened by Power-Absolute. The video clip of a bloodied and dying Muammar Ghaddafi being bludgeoned is disturbing enough to rattle the very foundation of human conscience. The scene of his captors –... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Tuesday, November 1st 2011 |
…As Sanitation Considered Economic Benefit – By: Augustine N. Myers, returning from India – The much talked about Global Forum on Sanitation and Hygiene in Mumbai, India has come and ended. It was indeed an exciting Meeting with exclusive focus on one of the world’s crucial but overlooked issues, “sanitation”. It is estimated that about 2.6 billion people around the world lack access to adequate sanitation. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there will be 2.7 billion people without sanitation, if the current trend continues. The Global Forum on Sanitation and Hygiene organized by the Water Supply & Sanitation... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Tuesday, October 18th 2011 |
