The Daily IIJ

A convicted paedophile diagnosed with HIV has been sentenced to just three years’ imprisonment for child sexual abuse. Twenty six year old Irushaad Moosa from Meemu Atoll Mulaku (Maldives) was initially arrested in august 2009 as he was caught ‘red handed’ having sex with a minor girl.

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The United Nations and the Finance Ministry of Pakistan are not releasing funds, which is hindering the Environment Ministry from carrying out its projects, said federal Minister for Environment,Pakistan, Hameed Ullah Jan Afridi.

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President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has called on all religious institutions in Liberia to remember in their prayers victims of the earthquake in Haiti and dedicate their services to the country’s recovery.

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The Foreign Minister of Nigeria, Chief Ojo Maduekwe, has referred to his country’s role in the restoration of peace in Liberia as a mark of privilege, adding that Nigeria had no choice but to intervene because, according to him, the two countries have some things in common.

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  The Liberian leader President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf  has celebrated her fourth anniversary of her historic Presidency of Liberia and Africa’s first female head of state with a pledge to continue to confront Liberia’s challenges.

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There will be 8 candidates to contest the coming presidential election in Togo. The current Prez. Faure Gnassingbe and seven others such as jean-Pierre fabre, Nicolas Lawson, Kofi Yamgnane, Kodjo Agbeyome, Bassabi Kagbara, Brigitte Kafui Adjamagbo-Johnson and former prime minister Yawovi Agboyibo, reveal on saturday the independent national commission for election.

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Leading business persons in Nepal are to invest as much as $4.5 million in a mega project of making a documentary entitled ´Return to Everest´, which they believe will greatly support Nepal Tourism Year (NTY) 2011 campaign.

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Nigeria’s Foreign Minister Ojo Maduekwe has made a passionate plea d in Monrovia, urging Liberians to offer prayers for the recovery of ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua.

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Hundreds of Ex- soldiers’ wives Thursday stormed the grounds of the Capitol Building, the seat of the Liberian  Legislature, blocking the entrances to the building in demands of benefits for their dead husbands. The women, predominantly in their 50s, sat on the floor at the entrances of the Capitol Building preventing movements in and out of [...]

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A 116-year-old woman and resident of Polar Town in Grand Gedeh County say the full implementation of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) will trigger another civil war in Liberia.

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