The Daily IIJ

The Gambia Young Men Christian Council Associations (YMCA) through its Big Lottery Fund (BLF) funded project recently organised national capacity building workshop at the paradise suites hotel. Participants were youth advocates, local government authorities, national assembly memebers, coummunity leaders, parents and the media. The workshop was designed with the view to galavnize support in addressing [...]

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SIX NAMES have been announced as laureates for this year’s World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) Awards to be held in Doha, Qatar, from December 7 to 9. The laureates, who were selected based on their exemplary projects to transform education in the world include Mushtaq Chhapra from Pakistan, Ayla Goksel from Turkey, Nnaemeka Ikegwuonu, [...]

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PARTICIPANTS AT a ‘fiscal and debt sustainability in Ghana: issues and prospects’ forum organized by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) yesterday, questioned among other things, how the International Monetary Fund (IMF) raises money to give loans and grants to needy countries in Africa. Read more on www.nayank80.blogspot.com

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IBIS, an international NGO with its headquarters in Denmark, has worked in Sierra Leone since 2006. IBIS, which currently implements governance and education programmes in Sierra Leone, has recently launched a new teacher training project in Kholifa-Rowalah chiefdom, Tonkolili district. The project will be implemented in partnership with REACT, a Danish volunteer group committed to [...]

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The year 2010 starts under good homes for the Beninese journalist from the daily “l’Evenement Précis” Jean-Claude Dossa. Indeed, thanks to the 3rd edition of the contest organized by the National Program against Tuberculosis (PNT) with the Health ministry of Benin to reward the best productions from the Beninese press on TB, the Head Desk [...]

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L’année 2010 démarre sous de bons hospices pour le journaliste du quotidien béninois « l’Evénement Précis » Jean-Claude Dossa. En effet, à la faveur de la 3ème édition du concours organisé par le Programme national contre la Tuberculose (PNT) du Bénin pour récompenser les meilleures productions de la presse béninoise sur la tuberculose, alumni de Inwent et [...]

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From Nathaniel Y.Yankson, Ahafo, B/A Newmont Ghana Gold Limited has executed some developmental projects in parts of the Ahafo community where its mining activities had impacted negatively on the people to the tune of GH¢723,346.43. This amount was generated from the Newmont Ahafo Development Foundation (NADEF) with an accrued fund of $4.3million. One dollar of [...]

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A fellow journalist and trainer (and very good friend of mine) thought of the IIJ alumni – although he doesn’t teach at the IIJ; now isn’t that nice? He pointed me to the fact that Investigative journalists from Russia (and the former U.S.S.R), Eastern Europe, The Balkans, Caucasus, Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin America [...]

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