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  • ‘MY World’ Survey – first results – half a million citizens tell the United Nations their priorities

    New York, 16 May 2013 - Over 560,000 citizens from 194 countries have already voted for the issues that would make the most difference to their lives, providing, for the first time ever, real-time and real-world intelligence on what people think about the biggest challenges facing them and their ...

  • Beneficiaries of a UNIDO training programme in Sierra Leone tell their stories

    explains 21-year-old Malikie Kanneh. Kanneh has just completed a two-year training programme to become a mechanic. He is one of the 145 young men and women who have benefited from a UNIDO project, funded by the Government of Japan, in Kailahun and Koindu in eastern Sierra Leone, a rural area bordering with Liberia and Guinea. The project, which ran from March 2011 to September 2012, provided ...

  • United African Coalition endorses Nigerian born physician for New York City Council seat

    About two dozen United African Coalition (UAC) members held a press conference on the steps of Borough Hall and Courthouse Tuesday to announce the endorsement of Dr. Bola Omotosho as their candidate for City Council District 16 in Bronx, New ...

  • UNDP Sierra Leone launches new website on Adobe CQ5.

    UNDP in Sierra Leone joined a list of other UNDP country offices that are upgrading their online presence through UNDP'sWeb Upgrade Project, which seeks to develop high standards of online communication across UNDP."As Sierra Leone moves forward to consolidate democracy, review the constitution and continue to enhance inclusive economic growth, the new UNDP website will be a good ...

  • Capital for the Future Saving and Investment in an Interdependent World

    ';Very long-run forecasting is a hazardous activity because the uncertainties and imponderables of life have plenty of time to intrude, and bend and buck the charted path. At the same time, to craft policy that is rooted in reason and reality, we need to peer into the future with the best information, statistics, and models that we ...

Movie Review

Resident Evil: Afterlife

Resident Evil: Afterlife

Before heading into Resident Evil: Afterlife, the fourth installment in the seemingly unstoppable video-game-based franchise, I had to remind myself that I had, in fact, seen two of the previous three installments, not just one. I had skipped out on 2007s ...

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  • A tribute to the late Mrs. Alice Foyah – MP for Kailahun

    On 24 May last year, I went to Kailahun with the Peace Project to donate crutches to the disabled. And whilst I was there, the blind also requested we help them with walking canes. We promised to be back with the 500 walking canes, once they arrive from the United States. When I got back to Parliament after the trip, I bumped literally into Hon. Alice Foyah (Photo). And after apologising for ...

  • Liberia Liberias Legislative Branch Urged to Summon EPS Boss Over Terrorists Journalists

    The Plenary of Liberia's House of Representatives have been asked to invite the Director of the Executive Protection Service (EPS) to answer to questions of terroristic threat against Journalists. Two separate communications were written by Representatives Munah Pelham Youngblood (CDC-District #9 Montserrado County) and Richmond Anderson (LP-District #12 Montserrado County). Defending ...

  • Liberia Woman Faints - During Police Sand Mining Raid

    A woman who claimed to be owner of molded blocks Thursday fainted in the hands of residents of the 11TH Street Community after police confiscated several pieces of her blocks in a sand mining raid instituted by the Ministry of Lands and Mining. "Please don't carry my blocks. I have documents to prove that I molded these blocks from river sand," the weeping woman said as she ...

  • Meeting Sierra Leone’s police chief

    Progress and development: Sierra Leone continues to make tremendous progress in the area of maintaining internal security, just as it is with external security. Both the police and the armed forces have all kept excelling in their various constitutional mandates. This is notwithstanding the numerous challenges they are faced with in present day policing. The fact remains the police force has ...

  • South America contraception up to 79 Middle Africa 19

    Between 2003 and 2012, the total number of women worldwide wanting to avoid pregnancy and in need of contraception increased from 716 million to 867 million, with growth concentrated among women in the 69 poorest countries where modern method use was already very low. A young Chinese boy walks past a neighborhood 'sex shop', full of contraceptive suggestions, in central Beijing. (UPI ...

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