PRESS RELEASE   February 22, 2012/ – Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and Adnan Amin, Director General of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), urged all stakeholders across Africa to make commitments, as part of the Action Agenda, on how to achieve sustainable energy for all by 2030. [...]

Every day in recent weeks, I have found myself confronted with the question of who should be the next Mayor of Freetown. In many of the discussions that follows the question I must confess, people tend to spend their time examining the present Freetown regime, rather than look to the future.   And what I [...]

More than 60,000 Liberian refugees spread in countries of the West African sub region will no longer be accepted under such status beginning July 1 this year, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, warns in a major policy statement. The mayhem that devastated Liberia for 14 years pushed hundreds of thousands of Liberians as refugees into [...]

From the north of the Limpopo, right down to the south of the Sahara, pre-colonial empires have risen and fallen.  There was the Songhai, the Mutapa, Ghana, Mali and right down to the Mamana Empire. There was the Sokoto, the Kaabu and Asante empires, and like all before and after them rose and fell with [...]