• Fund to transform Africa’s creative industry

    Thursday, May 8, 2025

    African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), through its development impact investment arm, the Fund for Export-Development in Africa (FEDA), has committed to spearhead the launch of the Africa Film Fund (AFF) as part of its Creative Africa Nexus Program (CANEX). This transformative undertaking of up to US$1 billion is designed to revolutionize Global Africa’s film and creative […]

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  • Liberia: Local NGOs network with JNB Foundation

    Sunday, May 4, 2025

    By James Kokulo Fasuekoi The boss of President Joseph Nyuma Boakai’s charity, the JNB Foundation, held a roundtable meeting on Friday in Paynesville, outside the Liberian capital, with nearly 20 local NGOs concerning ways in which his charity could collaborate with all and help maximize services they offer to local communities throughout Liberia. Jackson K. George […]

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  • Africa: New approach to measuring wealth

    Monday, April 28, 2025

    African leaders are advocating for a new approach to measuring the continent’s green wealth, emphasizing that current  gross domestic product measures in most African countries are outdated and underestimate their true wealth. They spoke on Thursday at an event hosted by the African Union Commission and the African Development Bank Group at the African Union […]

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  • Uganda declares end of Ebola outbreak

    Saturday, April 26, 2025

    Uganda today declared the end of the Ebola disease outbreak, less than three months after the virus was confirmed in the capital Kampala. During this outbreak, 14 cases, 12 confirmed and two not confirmed through laboratory tests (probable), were reported. Four deaths, two confirmed and two probable, occurred. Ten people recovered from the infection. A […]

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  • African health experts to eliminate tropical diseases

    Saturday, April 19, 2025

    African health experts have renewed commitment to accelerate efforts to end Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) that continue to affect over a billion people globally, 40% of whom live in the African region. Meeting in Togo from 15 to 17 April for the NTD Program Managers meeting, the experts also set in motion discussions and collaborations […]

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News

Mar
8

Facebook helps Swedish police to solve cases

Social media site Facebook has agreed to provide Swedish police with IP addresses and other data to help solve cases related to the site, news agency TT reports. The deal was struck in December and means that the police gain direct access to information to identify the person behind a certain account, something that used […]

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Mar
8

New frontlines for Liberian “war criminals” Part II

  Continue from last edition: “G.V fanatics” lash out at womanhood; used profanities as weapon in “debate”  Though it is not my intention to in any way  to add to the pains and insults already inflicted upon Massa Washington, neither do I take pleasure re-posting (in parts or whole), lewd comments by irresponsible men directed […]

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Mar
6

DAPI provides education to poor Liberian kids

Ever since the end of its long civil war, Liberia has had to struggle to fix its broken education sector. Public and private efforts have been marshaled against this gargantuan challenge. But the challenge remains. However, Liberians are not perturbed and one of such who have made a commitment to see the country though this […]

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Mar
6

Eight Thousand Attend EU Referendum Protest

An estimated 8,000 people gathered in Austurvöllur square in front of Alþingi, Iceland’s parliament, yesterday afternoon to protest against the government’s proposed withdrawal from European Union accession talks. Several prominent Icelanders held speeches at the protest, which concluded with audio clips – from before the election – of Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson and Finance […]

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Mar
4

Senseless killings in Africa must stop

The chairperson of the African Union Commission, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, has expressed her outrage at continuing acts of barbarism and terrorism perpetuated on innocent people by unscrupulous individuals and groups reigning havoc in Nigeria, Central African Republic, South Sudan, Somalia and other countries since the beginning of this year. “These senseless killings of innocent children, […]

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Mar
4

Cameroon, Canada sign Investment promotion agreement

Ed Fast, Canada’s minister of international trade, and Emmanuel Nganou Djoumessi, Cameroon’s minister of economy, planning and regional development, today signed the Canada-Cameroon Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA). The signing took place at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) International Convention, Trade Show and Investors Exchange in Toronto. A FIPA is […]

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Mar
4

New ambassador will be in France soon

An official of the Liberian embassy in France says ambassador-designate C. William Allen will take up his assignment soon. In a letter to Nordic Africa News recently, Isaac C. Yeah, minister counselor for press and public affairs at the embassy, said no mysterious forces were preventing the ambassador from taking up the post, to which […]

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Mar
3

Africa aims to boost food security

    African leaders, civil society and youth groups today mark Africa Environment Day, which seeks to accelerate action on the numerous pressing environmental challenges facing the continent. Maseru, in the Kingdom of Lesotho, is the regional host of the 12th annual celebration, which is focused on the theme Combating Desertification in Africa: Enhancing Agricultural […]

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Mar
1

Cyberspace: New frontlines for Liberian “war criminals”

A decade and half old brutal war that left nearly 300,000 dead and ruined whatever infrastructures left of the economic-deprived West African nation of Liberia, no doubt created deep mistrust and hatred between key war-actors and their victims now living abroad, mainly, the United States. Even though the bloodbath ended more than a decade ago, […]

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Feb
28

Liberian turns $200 into a multi-million dollar business

He started his first business venture as a street vendor with capital of just $200 but two decades later Fomba Trawally has become one of Liberia’s most prominent businessmen. Like many in his country, Trawally fled Liberia in 1989 to escape the West African country’s ruinous civil war. He found refuge in The Gambia but […]

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