KHARTOUM, SUDAN Sudan’s alliance of opposition and protest groups said Monday that it would push ahead with a two-day general strike starting Tuesday after talks with the ruling military council collapsed. Wagdy Saleh, speaking for the Declaration of…
Day: May 27, 2019
Malawi’s Mutharika Re-Elected to 2nd Term in Tight Race
Malawi’s President Peter Mutharika narrowly won re-election with 38% of the votes in last week’s polls, the electoral commission declared Monday.Mutharika’s victory was announced in Blantyre, Malawi’s largest city, immediately after the High Court in L…
Merck Foundation organized their first ‘Health Media Training’ in partnership with the First Lady of Liberia
Merck Foundation (www.Merck-Foundation.com)also Calls for Applications for Media Recognition Awards 2018 to eliminate infertility stigma; Merck foundation partners with First Lady of Liberia to build healthcare capacity in the fields of Oncology, ferti…
Can they ever go home? The forgotten victims of Georgia’s civil war
Gocha Zukhbaia was raised in a spacious, two-storey village house where he dreamed of becoming a fisherman off the palm-fringed Black Sea coast.That home and his future were razed by Georgia’s civil war in the aftermath of the disintegration of the Sov…
Somali Officer Remembered as Mother, Military Hero
Col. Faadumo Ali spent her life trying to bring peace and security back to her home country of Somalia.The 33-year-old mother of 10 joined the military in 2007 and led a division of Danab, an elite, U.S.-trained commando force. She had taken part in ma…
Somali Officer Remembered as Mother, Military Hero
Col. Faadumo Ali spent her life trying to bring peace and security back to her home country of Somalia.The 33-year-old mother of 10 joined the military in 2007 and led a division of Danab, an elite, U.S.-trained commando force. She had taken part in ma…