The Daily IIJ

Two members of Indonesian diplomats team on local Papuan rebel issue, Friday (20/3) banned journalists to interview Nicolaas Jouwe, a founding father of Independence Papua Organization (IPO), an organization struggles for independent against Indonesian government.

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 Liberia’s Vice President Joseph Boakai has said that there is a serious need to strengthen investments in agricultural research and improve innovation systems if Liberia is to survive the effects of the looming global food crisis and raise productivity in African food production. According to him, “we have a responsibility to move quickly and take [...]

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A credible legislative source has revealed that three members of the Liberian senate  are allegedly involved in “travel fraud” at the detriment of the tax payers. Speaking to this paper on condition of anonymity over the weekend, our legislative source revealed that the senators supposedly involved in the “travel fraud” allegedly received money  to travel [...]

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Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah had a fair idea and definition about the engineering of his United States of Africa. But he did not live to see that come to fruition. He was a great philosopher, author, politician and orator of his time. He wanted a continent amid the abundance of natural resources united with one voice [...]

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Developing countries must unite and find common ground as the world searches for ways and means out of the current global economic downturn, the EU’s top official has said. José Manuel Barroso, European Commission President urged developing countries to present a common approach on every front as EU heads of state and government concluded a [...]

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By Juliana Taiwo, Abuja – Nigeria On Tuesday March 17, 2009, the Minister of Information and Communication, Professor Dora Akunyili launched a campaign tagged ‘Re-branding Nigeria’ alongside a new slogan ‘Nigeria GOOD PEOPLE GREAT COUNTRY’.

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By James Ratemo, in Berlin, Germany. Today I attended an International conference on ‘Elections:Harnessing the power of new media’ organised by Inwent and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and the interaction with great minds from across the globe was enlightening. It emerges that politics has been invaded by technology and seemingly it will never be business as [...]

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The Government of Sierra Leone Has handed over the matter of the suspension of the two political party radio stations to the Independent Media Commission, the statutory body set up by parliament to regulate the media, a press release has said.

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 The health situation in Liberia is precarious. That I know. But I was amazed that the Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) run hospital in Paynesville, about 25 miles away from central Monrovia, is offering tremendous humanitarian health services to our people. So I stop to ask myself what would have happened if MSF was not rendering [...]

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Grand Gedeh County Senior Senator Isaac W. Nyenabo has finally resigned his post as President Pro Tempore of the Liberian Senate.

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