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Teaching the Civil Rights Movement
By Professor Afua Cooper, Canada Teaching the Civil Rights Movement. On the issue of the Montgomery bus boycott and Rosa Parks. Several Black women refused to give up their seats to Whites way before the NAACP chose Parks to engage in that piece of...


Sierra Leone: Death penalty abolished
By President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone Today, I have fulfilled a governance pledge to permanently abolish the death penalty in Sierra Leone. I thank citizens, members of Parliament, development partners, and rights groups that have steadfas...


Congratulations, Dr. George Ayisi Boateng
PV Staff Many Africans stop opening books after their first university degree or when they get a job they are comfortable with. All they would do then until they retire is to take care of their immediate and extended families. Even when they retire...


Canada: Statement by the PM on the opening of the Tokyo Olympic Games
The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today (July 23) issued the following statement on the opening of the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan: “Today, the entire world will unite for the official opening of the Tokyo Olympic Games in Japan. This is an o...


Amy Lai wins top PEN Canada prize
The journalist and legal scholar Amy Lai has been awarded the 2021 PEN Canada/Ken Filkow Prize for courageously reporting on the “threats faced by both individuals and democratic institutions” in her native Hong Kong, and for ground-breaking sch...


Delta ripping around the world
By WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Geneva The Delta variant is ripping around the world at a scorching pace - present in over 100 countries - and driving a new spike in #COVID19 cases & death. We are experiencing a worsening pu...


U.S. government investment in Ghana's Upper West Region tackles poverty among subsistence farmers
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), through the West Africa Trade and Investment Hub, has awarded a $1.2 million co-investment grant to Warc Group, a social enterprise with agricultural production and consulting operation...


An interesting look into the work of Sierra Leone's ACC
PV Staff The Anti-Corruption Commission of Sierra Leone is one of Sierra Leone's biggest newsmakers because Sierra Leoneans are always interested any in news about corruption. This is because like most African countries, Sierra Leone has a big cor...


Meet Aruna Kargbo of Masanga Hospital, northern Sierra Leone
I am Aruna Kargbo born in Masanga Village. I trained as Nursing Aid in Masanga Hospital in 2011, After graduation as Nursing Aid, I was employed in the hospital at the Emergency ward for six months I later transferred to the pharmacy in 2011 to 2016...


Death penalty in Sierra Leone: To abolish or not to abolish?
n 2009, Aminata, from Kenema in the east of the country, was found guilty of killing her abusive ex-boyfriend and received the death penalty, the mandatory sentence for murder. She was just 17 years old. Like many people in Sierra Leone, Aminata ha...



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