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  • 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 ...

  • Liberias Johnson-Sirleaf defends governance record

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf on Friday defended her government's record on good governance and transparency, following an independent audit that cast doubt on her anti-corruption ...

  • Divided Europe veers between urgent growth and bleak austerity

    Angela Merkel 's pro-austerity policies soon after becoming president in May last year, blamed the tough cutbacks regime imposed on troubled economies for much of Europe's economic problems. "What is hitting Europe is a recession provoked by the austerity policy," Hollande said at a Paris news conference. The president was especially keen to pin the blame on European ...

  • Covenant Child World Ministries Women are hosting a Breakfast Fellowship tomorrow

    YOU ARE INVITED TO OUR WOMEN’S BREAKFAST TOMORROW……. THE COVENANT CHILD WORLD MINISTRIES WILL BE HOSTING A WOMEN'S BREAKFAST FELLOWSHIP AT THE CARIBBEAN PALACE HALL ON SATURDAY MAY 18, 2013 AT 9 : 30 AM. ALL ARE INVITED . COME AND FELLOWSHIP WITH US. THIS FELLOWSHIP WILL MOTIVATE YOU AND THE WORD OF GOD WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE FOREVER. THE THEME OF THE BREAKFAST IS ...

  • Ex-warlord Prince Johnson quits his own party in Liberia

    MONROVIA, Liberia - Prince Johnson, a former warlord-turned-politician who is best known for having videotaped himself overseeing the torture of Liberia's ex-president, announced Friday he is quitting the political party he founded. For years since the end of Liberia's civil war, Johnson has tried to erase his violent past, first becoming an evangelical pastor, and later running for ...

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Life is Beautiful (La Vita é Bella)

The title of Roberto Benigni's "Life is Beautiful" ("La Vita Bella") is, like the similarly titled "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946), both sincere and ironic at the same time. The title is not a simplistic aphorism, not an all-encompassing proclamation that life is beautiful, but rather a statement about a person's will to see life as beautiful, even under the worst conditions. Therein lies the iron ... ...

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  • The complicated nature of our reality Will President Koroma seek a third term

    Yes, the world might give kudos to the ‘overwhelming development' going on in a country that is still nowhere near what it used to be. But to the average Sierra Leonean, all that is going on in the nation's economic realm right now is like a doctor prescribing a terminal patient with panadol. To the average Sierra Leonean, the government is spending money on some symbols that ...

  • China Kingho may spend up to $10-billion in Sierra Leone

    A truck is loaded with iron ore at a port in Nantong, China, May 5, 2013. China Kingho Energy Group, one of China's largest privately-owned energy companies, could spend between $6-billion (U.S.) and $10-billion on infrastructure projects in Sierra Leone over the next five years, with an emphasis on iron ore production. (CHINA ...

  • U.S. warns of violence in Ivory Coast

    Ivory Coast could quickly deteriorate despite recent security gains, the U.S. State Department warned. Ivory Coast was pushed to the brink of civil following contested elections in 2010. Former Ivorian ...

  • Liberia Water Prices Hiked

    Barely few days after the Liberia Water and Sewer Corporation (LWSC) announced that it has begun pumping water to central Monrovia, the corporation has increased tariff to meet the new demands. But the Corporation is beset with new challenges of water theft and water undermining by unscrupulous individuals while it strives to pump water to central Monrovia and its surrounding communities. ...

  • Liberia House Invites PUL Warrick

    The House of Representatives has invited the leadership of the Press Union of Liberia (PUL) and the Director of the Executive Protection Service (EPS) Othello Warrick over 'terror threat' against the Liberian Media. The House's decision was based on two separate communications from Representatives Richmond Anderson and Munah Pelham-Youngblood of Montserrado County. The two ...

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