Alarming malnutrition rates in Nigeria

The world may have finally woken up to the child hunger emergency in northeastern Nigeria, but the latest data shows, if anything, a deepening crisis. Levels of Global Acute Malnutrition recorded in July and August were well over the 15 percent threshold deemed “critical”, and, in some cases, higher than 50 percent, meaning more than […]

US, Liberian diaspora discuss 2017 elections

The Bureau of African Affairs of the US State Department on Tuesday, August 16, hosted a conversation with the Liberian Diaspora. The talks were held at the State Department in Washington, D.C. and it brought together representatives of some US-based Liberian community organizations. Represented at the high profile gathering were the Association of Liberian Journalists in […]

Japan to invest $30 billion in Africa

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told African leaders on Saturday that his country will commit $30 billion in public and private support for infrastructure development, education and healthcare expansion in the continent. Resource-poor Japan has long been interested in tapping Africa’s vast natural resources, even more so since dependence on oil and natural gas imports […]

German minister wants Marshall Plan for Africa

On a recent tour of Senegal, Niger and Rwanda, German Development Minister Gerd Müller repeated his call for a Marshall Plan for Africa. But is a post-World War II-style recovery program realistic or even necessary? Gerd Müller makes his way on foot across the arid field in Cayar, a small town in Senegal. After a […]

Cracks in ‘impossible’ Italian asylum system

Closed borders in the Balkans and the EU-Turkey deal have drastically reduced arrivals of migrants and refugees to Greece, but arrivals to Italy have continued at a similar rate to last year. The key difference is that fewer are able to move on to northern Europe, leaving Italy’s reception system buckling under the pressure and […]

US Vice President Biden to visit Sweden

On Thursday 25 August, Prime Minister Stefan Löfven will receive Vice President of the United States Joe Biden. Current bilateral and international issues as well as global challenges will be discussed at the meeting. A key agenda point for both the US and Sweden is the issue of global responsibility for migration and refugees. Sweden […]

AU Commission election in January

The nomination process for the next chairperson, deputy chairperson and eight (8) commissioners of the African Union (AU) Commission has been re-opened. The commission has officially informed all member states, providing detailed timeframes and deadlines for the submission of candidatures for the ten (10) positions that are open. According to the rules of procedure of the […]

A Call For New Liberian Leader

Introduction Liberians eagerly look forward to another national elections through the ballot box in 2017- a democratic process that ushers in a new leader. Debate about what kind of leadership the country needs is significant for constructive progress. Over the years, we have heard and seen the acrimonious manner and ways in which some politicians […]

We do not support Vice President Boakai

On the 18th of July 2016, a supposed delegation of the Global Grand Gedeans headed by Mr Amos Zleh gave a statement of support to Dr Joseph N Boakai for his presidential bid in the up-coming 2017 elections in Liberia. Mr Zleh, who is based in the United Kingdom and pose as chairman of the […]

244,000 hungry children

After his father, a welder from Bama, died in a camp for internally displaced people in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri, 17-year-old Dauda began to cater for the two wives and eight other children who had survived him. Aided by the little money donated by one of the locals bringing food to the Dalori camp, […]