Mark Twain “Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.”
Confucius “A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”
The World Bank has approved a $25 million aid package to assist economic agents in the Mozambican provinces of Inhambane and Nampula who will, until 2014, have access to funding to improve the business climate and increase their competitiveness.
The bank said in a statement that this financial packages negotiated with the World Bank by the [...]
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has launched a program to lure exiled Zimbabwean medical staff back to the country as efforts intensify to revive the health sector which has virtually collapsed due to poor budgetary support and an exodus of health personnel.
The IOM program would seek to entice doctors, hospital administrators, dentists, nurses and [...]
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Liberia has released its final report recommending that the Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf be barred from holding public office for thirty years for participating in the destabilization of the country.
During her appearance before the TRC last year, President Sirleaf admitted that she gave US$10,000 to then defunct [...]
Ren TV has reported that police in Russia’s Far East said that they have found another child that has been raised by dogs.
The police found six-year-old Veronika Tishchenko in a house along with three adults in the town of Vyazemsky, Khabarovsk Territory, several days ago.
U.S. Marines have suffered their first casualties during a new major offensive in Taliban-controlled parts of southern Afghanistan.
The U.S. military says one Marine was killed and several others wounded as they were taking up positions in Taliban strongholds in Helmand province.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has launched a campaign against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) by announcing that a law is to be enacted in Parliament making it illegal to circumcise both girls and women in Uganda.
The President launched the drive on Wednesday at Amudat Senior Secondary School in Nakapiripirit district north-west of Kampala.