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My Fellow Liberians, Brothers and Sisters of the Faith Community in Liberia, Our Young People, the Precious Jewels and Future Leaders of the Blessed Nation, Liberia:
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a veteran development official and politician who scored an unexpected victory in Liberia's presidential run-off last month, is currently on a brief private visit to the United States. Planned as a low-key affair, her trip has become a whirlwind of events and appointments, as interest in her status as Africa's first woman president has ballooned. On Monday in New York she ...
Elections in Liberia "were free and fair and the most successful in Liberia's history," a State Department official said Tuesday. "Any opposition allegations of isolated irregularities do not affect the credibility of the outcome," said the official, who cannot be named according to State Department briefing policies.
Having beaten the odds to win (helped by some polls and a helicopter), Africa's first female elected president faces daunting challenges.
Africa has increasing strategic significance for the United States, an importance often overshadowed by a focus on humanitarian concerns, according to a report by a Task Force sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations.
Marie Dauln,leader singer of Zap Mama, strode onto the stage looking regal in 5-inch chunky heel gold glitter covered go-go boots, flowing purple robe with one side riding half-way up her thigh and aviator sunglasses hiding her mischievous yet intense gaze. Her syncopated vocal work blended perfectly with those of the other beautiful women who shared between them the singing, synthesizing, bass ...
A controversy about preventing HIV/Aids - the most profound strategic threat to Africa's future - has been raging over the past year in Uganda, a country that registered one of the early successes in the fight against the pandemic. Simply put, the debate is about the right mix between sexual abstinence and condom use to prevent and control the spread of AIDS.
The worldwide destruction brought on by HIV/Aids cannot be overcome by an after-the-fact crisis management approach. We need a war mindset. The pandemic calls for a multi-pronged attack, especially in Africa, where the havoc has been most disastrous and threatens to undo 50 years of hard-won progress in public health, education, and development.
Sufism and Religious Brotherhoods in Senegal
Liberia's National Election Commission (NEC) has released the completed tally of last week's presidential run-off showing Ellen Johnson Sirleaf with 59.4 and George Weah with 40.6 percent.
Although largely unnoticed in the developed world, malaria strikes 500 million people a year and kills nearly a million children younger than five, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa. Treating the disease absorbs a significant amount of income in poor households, and the economic and social effects of chronic infections are a major obstacle in Africa's progress towards the UN Millennium Development ...
With 97 percent of all ballots counted, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is set to become the first woman to win a nationwide presidential election in Africa.
With vote counting from Tuesday's run-off presidential elections proceeding faster than the first round on October 11, Liberians may learn by the end of the week who they have chosen to lead their nation into peacetime reconstruction and reconciliation.
There was no rush to the polls or long lines at most polling stations, when Liberians cast ballots in the country's first presidential run-off election on Tuesday. But reports from various parts of the country said the turnout increased as the day went on, although participation appeared considerably below the 75 percent of the first round on October 11.
Heavy rains have loosed bridges from their moorings and made roadways into seas of mud, but long lines began forming hours before polls opened Tuesday morning in Liberia's presidential run-off vote.
"I always thought the nickname 'Iron lady' referred to her indomitable state of mind," said one of the journalists in the convoy that took Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and her caravan of campaigners to Grand Bassa County for two days of non-stop campaigning in the first presidential run-off race in Liberia's 150-year history.
For many citizens of Kamsar and Sangaredi, two cities about two hundred miles north of the capital Conakry in the West African nation of Guinea, bauxite mining has always been the business of government and of multinationals.
Campaigning for the run-off election in Liberia on November 8 for the presidency has begun at a lower volume than the first round, when hundreds of thousands of supporters of the 22 presidential candidates and the 780 legislative candidates took to the streets, waving posters and banners and creating a carnival-like atmosphere in this war-ravaged capital. This time, the two remaining contenders ...
Sub-Saharan Africa bears the greatest burden from the international movement of trained medical doctors to wealthy countries, according to a study published in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine.
Heads of two vastly different school systems have met in New York City this week to share ideas on the major restructuring challenge they both face. Rwanda's minister of Education, Science, Technology and Scientific Research, Romain Murenzi, along with Professor Silas Lwakabamba, President of the Kigali Institute of Sciences, Technology and Management, sat down with Joel I. Klein, chancellor of ...
"Only Africans can lead Africa. Only Africans can shape Africa," said Joan Holmes, president of the Hunger Project, in describing the challenges facing Africa in achieving the time-bound and quantified targets for the Millennium Development Goals. The United Nations is spearheading a global campaign that uses the goals to promote the target of reducing extreme poverty by half by the year 2015.
With final results from Liberia's presidential and legislative elections scheduled for release on October 26, the country is preparing for a second round to choose between the two top vote getters in the presidential race, which included 22 contenders.
With the counting of votes nearing completion in Liberia's presidential and legislative elections last week, the chairman of the National Elections Commission (NEC), Frances Johnson-Morris said today that she has received death threats.
Violence in the Sudanese region of Darfur continues to be "a situation that the world has not fully faced," former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said Thursday night as he was presented an award for "distinguished humanitarian service" at the annual Africare dinner in Washington, DC.
With nearly three-quarters of the ballots counted in Liberia's presidential election, it appears that no single candidate will receive more than half the votes needed to win an outright victory.
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