The Daily IIJ

River Gee County Junior Senator, Isaac Johnson, early Wednesday morning died at the John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital in Sinkor, Monrovia following a brief illness.
The River Gee County lawmaker gave up his ghost at 12:45 a.m. Wednesday morning following a surgical operation performed by medical doctors at the J F K Medical Center. According to [...]

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There are conflicting accounts emanating from the Liberian Government regarding President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s position on the recently released findings of the General Auditing Commission (GC) Audit Reports involving several government functionaries.
The conflicting accounts emerged last Friday when Acting Information Minister Cletus Sieh during a news conference disclosed that President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has [...]

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A frail looking old man is playing on the keyboard of his people’s emotions. This octogenarian is holding an entire country to ransom. He has turned the entire sovereign State’s constitution upside down. His source of joy is to see his people wailing. Nothing is working in this country that was once described as a [...]

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Four senior staff members of the University of Ghana, Legon, are to face contempt of court charges after their refusal to obey the orders of a human rights high court in Accra to open the rooms of two students to enable them prepare for their exams.

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The United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA) and the office of the first lady Mrs Sia Koroma has commenced a two-day consultative forum on the role of traditional and religious leaders on the  fight to reduce the high rate of maternal mortality in Sierra Leone. Major obstacle which limited women’s access to basic rights, such as [...]

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It was Friday night in Berlin, Germany. The clock was ticking to 11.00 pm, but summer night made it seems like it was still noon. Friendly air gave no freezing wind and Warchauer Strasse was filled with Berliner’s youngsters.
A punk group gathered around Waschauer Bridge, talked loud while drinking their beer off to the bottom. [...]

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Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has set tough conditions to be met before its participation in a government of national unity with Robert Mugabe’s ZANU PF.
The refusal by the MDC to participate in a new government has further cast a damper on a political agreement signed on September 15 2008.
Political analysts say the continued impasse between [...]

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Five days training on the topic “FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY IN THE MEDIA” has ended in Accra, Ghana.  The workshop attracted 15 participants from Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, Benin, Togo, The Gambia and Sierra Leone.  Participants were taken through topics such as:  The Code of Ethics (Codes, Norms and standards in journalism), Conflict reporting, Election reporting, accidents [...]

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Living in Hanoi for nearly 20 years, I have never witnessed anything worse than the flood in my capital city last week. It made not only me, but many Hanoians seriously shocked. I myself and my whole family became victims of that flood.

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photo: Marc Nozell, CC by 2.0
The entire continent of Africa is in an ecstatic state following the landslide victory of Barack Obama as the first black president of USA. This video shows euphoric reactions of people in Ghana, Congo DR, Ivory Coast and Kenya after hearing Barack Obama won. Kenyans in the Illinois senator’s ancestral homeland [...]

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