Statement by the Prime Minister on Emancipation Day August 1, 2021 Ottawa, Ontario The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today issued the following statement on Emancipation Day: “On this day in 1834, the British Parliament's Slavery Abolition Ac...

By Professor Afua Cooper, Canada Happy Emancipation Day. We honour our great ancestors for their fight for our liberty. We continue the struggle. Now the discussion is about reparations. Britain compensated the slaveowners for the loss of their 'pr...

Patriotic Vanguard Editor/Publisher Gibril Koroma recently interviewed Mike Kuzmickas (photo), Chief Executive Officer of Ichor Blood Services, a Canadian company based in Calgary, Canada. He talks about the work they do and other matters related to...

By Linda Amiani, Nairobi, Kenya This photo was shot at Senkwekwe orphanage in DRC's Virunga National Park - the only one of its kind in the World. The work that André Bauma (pictured) and his colleagues do in this, Africa's oldest park, is some o...

The civic space in Nigeria is increasingly becoming restricted, particularly after the indefinite ban on Twitter by the Nigerian government. The development has affected CSOs in Nigeria, as the government pushes for bills that violate citizens righ...

By Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada High-quality, affordable child care is a necessity – and at the College of the North Atlantic, we announced that we've reached an agreement with Newfoundland and Labrador to make $10 a day child care a r...

By President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone On the margins of the Global Education Summit, I had a zestful and productive meeting with Prime Minister Boris Johnson. We had a forward-looking and reassuring discussion on strengthening our relation...

By President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone At the Global education summit today, I shared with the world the progressive reforms we have undertaken in Sierra Leone. We will continue to increase financing, expand access, and promote girl's educa...

Ichor Blood Services, a private lab specimen collection company based in Calgary, Alberta has added quantitative COVID-19 spike protein antibody testing from the Mayo Clinic to its portfolio of privately available tests in Canada. The newly availabl...

During the previous weeks new long term volunteers arrived in Masanga Hospital. Dr Tom will take over from Dr Hanna as resident of the Global Health Tropical Medicine (GHTM) postgraduate training. We welcome Dr Tom and wish Dr Hanna goodbye. The Me...