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Kenyan writer and translator Wangui wa Goro
Wangui wa Goro Born 1961 (age 59–60), Kenya Education University of Leicester; University of London; Middlesex University. Occupation: Academic, social critic, researcher, translator and writer Wangui wa Goro (born 1961) is a Kenyan academic, s...


Siemens to host virtual Smart Mining forum 3-5 of August 2021
Siemens (www.Siemens.com) hosts Virtual Smart Mining Forum to explore new trends and the impact of technology on the mining sector; Launch of a Hackathon to universities to participate using the low-coding platform, Mendix; Siemens hosts an Enterpri...


Sierra Leone: Vice President engages ECOWAS Commissioner
Contributed Sierra Leone is playing host to the ECOWAS Integrated in Country High Level Advocacy, Coordination and Capacity Building of Multi Stakeholders on the Implementation of ECOWAS IHL, TIP, Gender Based Violence and Child Rights texts in the...


Statement by PM on Emancipation Day
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...


Happy Emancipation Day!
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...


Interview with Ichor Chief Executive Officer
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...


Andre and the gorilla
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...


Twitter ban restricts civic space in Nigeria
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...


Newfoundland and Labrador: $10 a day childcare
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...


Sierra Leone: Building back better with UK after Covid
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...



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