Leading telecommunications player launches mobile network in Africa

MAPUTO, Mozambique, May 16, 2012/ – On May 15, 2012, Viettel announced in in Maputo, Mozambique, the official launch of Movitel – the group’s first mobile network in Africa to join its already flourishing networks in Asia and Latin America. Viettel, one of the world’s fastest growing telecom operators, launches its first African mobile network [...]

Sierra Leone joins The World’s Children Prize

Girl Child Network – Sierra Leone has joined 57,530 Global Friend schools comprising of 27 million students in 101 countries to vote for Anna Mollel of Tanzania, Sakeena Yacoobi of Afghanistan, and Ann Skelton of South Africa. The World’s Children Prize child jury select three final candidates for the World’s Children Prize every year that [...]

President Donald Kaberuka invited to the 38th G8 Summit and to The White House by President Obama

At the invitation of the President of the United States, the President of the African Development Bank will be attending the Group of Eight (G8) meeting  WASHINGTON, May 16, 2012/ – At the invitation of the President of the United States, Barack Obama, the President of the African Development Bank, Donald Kaberuka (in photo), will [...]

CRM subscribes to Convertible Bond

African Minerals Ltd (the “Company” or “AML”) confirms that, following receipt of relevant regulatory approvals, China Railway Materials Company Limited  (“CRM”) has completed its subscription for $50m of the Company’s 8.5% convertible bonds due 2017 (“the Bonds”) through CRM (Hong Kong) Holdings Ltd, its wholly owned subsidiary. These Bonds have been issued today, and are [...]

Addressing hunger precondition for sustained human development in sub-Saharan Africa

UNDP Report says Food security must be at centre of continent’s development agenda Nairobi, Kenya, 15 May 2012—Sub-Saharan Africa cannot sustain its present economic resurgence unless it eliminates the hunger that affects nearly a quarter of its people, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) argues in the newly released Africa Human Development Report 2012: Towards [...]

Kanga schools now have Internet access

At a meeting on April 14 in Sydney, Australia, Kanga Schools announced the distribution of further resources to benefit schools in Sierra Leone.  Internet subscriptions and modems were made available in March to six schools to enable the teachers and students to access information on the Internet.  It is hoped this is just a beginning [...]

New ERSG visits Sierra Leone’s Permanent Mission to the UN

The new Executive Representative of the United Nations Secretary General to Sierra Leone, Mr. Jens Anders Toyberg-Frandzen, last week paid a courtesy call on the Permanent Representative of Sierra Leone to the UN, Ambassador Shekou M. Touray, at the Permanent Mission of Sierra Leone in New York. The ERSG was accompanied by the Senior Political [...]

President Koroma takes ICT seriously – Tarawalie tells Kigali Conference

The Deputy Minister of Information and Communications, Sheka Tarawalie, has told the International Telecommunications Union’s Annual Regional Development Forum for Africa held in Kigali, Rwanda, that “later this year, Sierra Leone will join and enjoy the benefits of the fibre optic experience as most modern nations are doing today.”  (L to R) Minister of State [...]

For girls, ‘it is possible to dream big’

Interview with Juliana Rotich, a leading African voice on tech Growing up in her native Kenya, Juliana Rotich (in photo) was the lonely, young “geek” with oversized glasses at school. Today she is a highly successful tech entrepreneur who is a co-founder and executive director of Ushahidi, a homegrown non-profit tech company that has taken the [...]

Agric minister shines in Congo

Sierra Leone’s agricultural transformation has continued to attract experts in the continent who have demonstrated a very strong desire to come and learn how the post–war nation has been able to put together impressive agricultural investment programmes that are now set to boost the lives of ordinary farmers and the country’s GDP. This was evident [...]

Africa’s vanishing Lake Chad puts 30 million lives at risk

As you approach the Lake Chad basin from Nigeria, the evidence of despair is telling. The air is dusty, the wind is fierce and unrelenting, the plants are wilting and the earth is turning into sand dunes. The lives of herders, fisherfolks and farmers are teetering on the edge as the lake dries up before [...]

AUC/AFRO 105.3 FM Radio Embark on Innovative Partnership

Addis Ababa, 11 May 2012 – The Deputy Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), Mr. Erastus Mwencha congratulated the Directorate of Information and Communication (DIC) and AFRO 105.3 FM Radio for establishing a vital partnership during the signing ceremony that took place today, Friday 11 May 2012 at the AU Headquarters in Addis Ababa, [...]

Geoengineering Policies and Africa

As current weather patterns around the world increasingly get shifty and links with global warming are established, pursuing geoengineering as a means to stop or reduce global warming will remain. Geoengineering (or climate remediation) describes an array of technologies that aim, through large-scale and deliberate modifications of Earth’s energy balance, to reduce temperatures and counteract [...]

Obama makes another history, but at what cost?

In Greece yesterday, the Olympic flame was lit by beautifully clad “Greek Goddesses” in Athens; to mark the beginning of the customary journey that ushers in every Olympic session. The journey will involve 8,000 torchbearers on its 70 –day relay that will culminate in its final destination in London’s Olympic Stadium in East London, Stratford. [...]

Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) Ranks Airtel Best in Quality of Service

LAGOS, Nigeria, May 11, 2012/ – Leading Telecommunications Services Provider, Airtel Nigeria (http://www.airtel.com) has been ranked the best operator for good quality of service by the Nigerian Communications Commission based on the Commission’s Audit Report for March and April, 2012. According to the results published on the NCC’s Corporate Website, Airtel Nigeria recorded impressive performances [...]

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