The Daily IIJ

The sound of the rain was enhanced by the music of the army band. Senior political leaders of Nepal – President, Chief Justice and Chairman of the Constituent Assembly – were present in the ceremony. And the man of the day was the newly elected Prime Minister of Nepal, Madhav Kumar Nepal.  PM Nepal was taking [...]

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Two former public officers of the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Service, SLBS were on Monday May 25 convicted by the High Court of Sierra Leone presided over by justice Nicholas Browne-Marke on one count of misappropriation of public funds contrary to section 12 (1) of the Anti-Corruption Act, 2000 (as amended). ACC press release sated that [...]

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Dear friends of the IIJ, dear alumni, dear colleagues, We would like to turn your attention to a journalism competition that the Asian Development Bank Institute has initiated. The competition is called “2009 annual Developing Asia Journalism Awards (DAJA) competition” and journalists from developing Asia and the Pacific are invited to submit published articles written [...]

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Maputo – Some four years ago a club to spread messages and raise awareness about HIV/ Aids was launched across Mozambique’s secondary schools to help change behavior through education and health. The club, called REDES (Girls in Development, Education and Health), targetted just girls when it was started around 2005, but two years later a [...]

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Cross trading of securities on the three stock exchanges in West Africa are expected to begin in a year’s time, Mr. Ekow Afedzi, General Manager of the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE), has disclosed. They include the GSE, the Nigerian Stock Exchange and the BRVM (the single stock exchange in La Cote d’ Voire that serves [...]

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German development cooperation covers a wide range of issues of development, served throughout the world at various levels of society. Some areas are the promotion of political stability and democracy, financial aid for development and poverty alleviation, technical cooperation, conflict resolution, and educational cooperation.

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Just near the famous Marina beach is Nochikuppam slum that houses 13 hundred huts where around 5 thousand people live below poverty level. Among them is 35 year old Nandani who sells fish to earn her living. The scorching heat of the summer makes her life more difficult as her husband can’t find fishes in [...]

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Maputo – When the US$19 billion President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (Pepfar) heathcare initiative was unrolled for more than 50 countries at most risk of the deadly HIV and Aids some six years ago it reflected the United States of America’s short term emergency response to combat the spread of the untreatable disease.

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The Governor of the Bank of Ghana Dr. Paul Acquah has said it is not possible to introduce the common currency for the five-member West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ) this year. By the time table the common currency to be called Eco, for the Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria and Sierra Leon should be introduced on [...]

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A new institution to facilitate the financial integration of West Africa at the level of the private sector will be launched this year. The proposed Private ECOWAS Financial Improvement Board (PEFIB) will work at improving the competitiveness of the financial sectors of the sub-region that will facilitate harmonization and integration.

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