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Around 200 people have died of diarrhea epidemic in the western parts of Nepal. Epidemiology and Disease Control Division of Nepal has said that hazardous and contaminated water is identified as a major cause of the epidemic. The total death toll has already crossed the mark of 200 in the districts of Jajarkot, Rukum and [...]

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This is the time in our candid appreciation of the “Liberianness” we consistently herald to soberly reflect on this nation – indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Well, doubting folks would contest what kind of justice. We cannot erase the human factor associated with our complexity. This nation needs to rise up and live [...]

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The President of Namibia, Hifikepunye Pohamba, on an official visit to Liberia, has called on fellow African leaders to use the resources of their respective countries effectively and resist corruption. The Namibian leader also called on his African colleagues to target poverty reduction, education and good governance as a means of ensuring the full potentials [...]

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The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of Ghana last week said the government’s economic policies have begun to yield the expected results. “There are initial signs that the policy framework is beginning  to work. Initial data for the first half of the year point to some degree of unwinding in both the fiscal and external imbalances, some  [...]

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The Ghanaian banking industry does not expect to witness entry of new banks in the coming years, as compared to the last six years, Dr Paul Acquah, Governor of the Bank of Ghana has said. With the opening of six new banks in just six years, increasing the number of universal banks to 25, the Governor [...]

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The mission of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is to promote global trade through the removal of barriers to trade. There is no ‘Breton Woods’ institution responsible for dealing with capacity differences among trading partners: the World Bank must broaden its role or a new institution be set up, writes Moses Mozart Dzawu My good [...]

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President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says she has always admitted her early support for Charles Taylor to challenge the brutality of a dictatorship. In her Special Message on the occasion of Liberia’s 162nd Independence Anniversary held 27th July 2009 in Gbarnga, Bong County, President Sirleaf notes that it was equally clear that when the true nature [...]

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By James Ratemo At last I have a post so dear to my heart in my diary Kenya’s parliamentary attempt to defeat country’s match to enhanced media freedom has been cut short. Mooters of a plan to have a draconian section of law that gave Internal security minister power to storm media houses and confiscate [...]

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A white paper to integrate gender sensitive policies into the Republic of Sierra Leone Army Forces (RSLAF) will soon be initiated.

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IIJ journalists paid a visit to Hamburger Abendblatt today. Check out the Qik videos of the session, done by Bilal from Pakistan.

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