The Daily IIJ

Chairman of the opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) says he is waiting for the appropriate time to respond to president Ernest Bai Koroma’s swipe on him and his party.John Oponjo Benjamin aka JOB told Concord Times:

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Residents living in the seven Gola Forest communities in the Kenema district, eastern Sierra Leone have called for the intervention of the government and other well meaning organizations to salvage their deplorable state as the conservation of the forest has virtually ‘disarmed’ them.

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My phone began to ring at 2.30am on Monday morning. I heard the churning from far and I thought I was dreaming. I ignored the first call. Just after five minutes it began ringing again. It was a bosom friend who never calls me at that fateful time.

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BEARING RESPONSIBILITY for the security lapses which recently led to a failed Christmas terrorist attack, US President Barack Obama has equally blamed the intelligence community for not being aggressive in tightening loop holes on possible attacks on the homeland.
“As President, I have a solemn responsibility to protect our nation and our people. And when the [...]

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By Yasmin Arquiza
A last-minute agreement brokered by US President Barack Obama during the closing hours of the climate summit here Friday does not provide enough financing for poor countries that stand to suffer the most from the negative impact of climate change, an expert Filipina negotiator said. “The Copenhagen Accord is damaging to poor countries,” [...]

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By Priscilla Jebaraj
World leaders may have given up on saving the planet from climate change here at the UN talks at Copenhagen. Instead, they are negotiating a declaration which could be aimed at saving face.

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By Goutam Mondal
World leaders are meeting on this morning to hammer out a declaration in the dying hours of the Copenhagen climate conference. On the table at the moment is a figure on the need for long-term funding for climate action in developing countries, but no clarity on who will provide the money and where [...]

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By Justus Wanzala
Climate friendly agricultural systems are key to fighting global warming and ensuring adequate food humanity. James Harkness, President of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy said in a session on importance of agriculture in fighting climate change at the on going Copenhagen Climate change talks that agriculture as a sector can reduce [...]

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By Simit Bhagat
The endgame at the climate change battle has begun. The best option for India and developing countries, it became clear on Tuesday, is to ensure that the industrialized countries are not able to set grounds to kill Kyoto and rewrite the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in future negotiations.

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By Newton Sibanda
South Africa has said that developed countries must commit to ambitious and legally binding carbon emission reduction targets of at least 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020.
In a statement issued by the Department of Environmental Affairs at the ongoing UN Climate change conference, South Africa said this was in accordance with the [...]

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