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- UN chief says efforts to consolidate peace prosperity in Sierra …
- Clinton Young students collect money and shoes for Sierra Leone
- Technical Advisor HIV/AIDS Mainstreaming in Sierra Leone
- Dialysis Machines for Sierra Leone: An Urgent plea for assistance
- FRIDE: WMEN’S PLITICAL PARTICIPATIN AND INFLUENCE IN SIERRA …
- Sierra Leone police station turns into snakepit
- A new book by Sierra Leone’s Dr. Cecil Blake
UN chief says efforts to consolidate peace prosperity in Sierra …
Xinhua
“The outbreak of political violence in March of this year was awake-up call on challenges that require urgent and continued attention” Ban told the UN Peacebuilding Commission’s high-level meeting on Sierra Leone held in the UN headquarters. “It also reminded us of the importance of sustained global support” he added. The governing All People’s Congress (APC) and the opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) signed a Joint Communique on April 2 ending violence that threatened to spiral out of control between the two parties in early March. “I commend President Koroma government and opposition leaders and ordinary Sierra Leoneans for rising above differences and overcoming the recent crisis” said Ban adding that the adoption of the agreement “has renewed hope in Sierra Leone’s journey toward peace and prosperity.
Clinton Young students collect money and shoes for Sierra Leone
Southside Times
Through this lesson Clinton Young children realized that basic hygiene was vital to prevent infections from entering the open wounds in the bare feet of African students. An answer to that problem appeared to be simple the donation of flip flops. Through the collection of money and flip flops brought to school by students staff and community partners over 1000 flip flops were shipped to 150 learners at the Nkurenkuru School in Sierra Leone. Sarah Buffie Perry Meridian High School graduate and daughter of former Perry Township School Board member JoEllen Buffie is currently serving a Peace Corps mission at the school. It was also discovered that mattresses were desperately needed at the village school. Clinton Young students staff and members of the community also donated $612 to be sent to the learners in Namibia for the purchase of those mattresses.
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Technical Advisor HIV/AIDS Mainstreaming in Sierra Leone
neworld
An extension is anticipated but not yet confirmed until December 2010. Background Following ten years of civil war that deteriorated the already poor health status of the population Sierra Leone’s health indicators are among the worst in the world. The situation analysis shows an increasing prevalence of HIV infection (from 0.
Dialysis Machines for Sierra Leone: An Urgent plea for assistance
Patriotic Vanguard
Kadie Kargbo for their relentless effort in securing the dialysis machines and making the event a successful one. The combined efforts of every Sierra Leonean involved in this venture shall not go in vain. Currently there are no operational dialysis machines in Sierra Leone hospitals. Thanks to our present forward thinking and visionary leadership both at home and North America who saw a daunting need for these life saving medical machines and tried to fill that need by acquiring them. Patients with kidney problems have to travel abroad for treatment if they can afford financing the trip. Sierra Leoneans in the Diaspora who are kidney patients are afraid to travel and visit their homeland. Kidney disease does not discriminate.
FRIDE: WMEN’S PLITICAL PARTICIPATIN AND INFLUENCE IN SIERRA …
MaximsNews Network
Post conflict state-building processes offer an important opportunity to strengthen women’s political participation developing governance rules institutions and processes that are inclusive of women and supporting women to engage in politics. However in many contexts these opportunities are missed and women’s exclusion is reinforced within newly (re-) constructed political structures. Sierra Leone presents an interesting case of both the opportunities and challenges in strengthening women’s political participation in contexts of state building. This Working Paper explores the extent to which women in post-conflict Sierra Leone are able to participate in politics the barriers that they face in doing this and the outcomes of increased female political participation. It examines the policy framework and international support for women’s participation and makes recommendations on how Sierra Leone’s donors can more effectively support women’s involvement in politics. The Working Paper is based on field research conducted by FRIDE and.
Sierra Leone police station turns into snakepit
AFP
An estimated 400 snakes mostly cobras and vipers have infested the station in the town of Gerihun in Sierra Leone’s southern Bo district. Residents also complain that they are too afraid of the snakes to go there to report crimes. “(The snakes) have been in the.
A new book by Sierra Leone’s Dr. Cecil Blake
Patriotic Vanguard
00 * ISBN: 978-0-415-99771-3* Binding: Hardback* Published by: Routledge* Publication Date: 8th June 2009* Pages: 156About the BookThrough a critical analysis of ancient African texts that predate Greco-Roman treaties Cecil Blake revisits the roots of rhetorical theory and challenges what is often advanced as the “darkness metaphor” — the rhetorical construction of Africa and Africans. Blake offers a thorough examination of Ptah-hotep and core African ethical principles (Maat) and engages rhetorical scholarship within the wider discourse of African development. In so doing he establishes a direct relationship between rhetoric and development studies in non-western societies and highlights the prospect for applying such principles to ameliorating the development malaise of the continent. Table of Contents1.