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New Year message 2009 The RT. REV. DR. S. Tilewa Johnson, Bishop of Gambia

We are again on the threshold of another year. We are again hoping and praying for a year that is the best yet! As we move into a New Year, we naturally look back to what we are leaving behind - what the old year has left us with. I think, wherever we were during the latter part of last year, we cannot fail to have been aware of the global economic crisis that touched the lives of most people in one way or another.  So many people have been caused to suffer due to lack of basic needs of life....

Opportunities in the fisheries sector

Easy entry, which requires no capital to start operating and no formal qualifications and the fisheries sector, provides opportunities for many of the poor and vulnerable people. Fish processing and trading at the artisan level provides diversified employment opportunities in fishing communities. Although little is understood about poverty in the post-harvest sector yet there is a wide diversity of academic and civil society skills that understand wider poverty issues and this could be...

Jammeh for life

Editor, Please, kindly allow me space to express my feelings for our beloved leader and implore on fellow Gambians for more dedication and support to the president.   It suffices to say that as a people we are all one, which means we are obliged to unite together for the betterment of our nation. Love and respect will be central to this. President Jammeh is the one God has chosen to be our leader, so we must all follow him with all our hopes. The sick has been heeled by our beloved...

KENYA: Joseph Maina: "For every 30kg of waste, they pay me 50 shillings"

Joseph Maina rummages through waste at Boma, the nickname for the Dandora municipal dumpsite in the eastern part of Nairobi. He is looking for bottles, plastic containers, anything that shop owners and local companies will buy for recycling. He talked to IRIN about eking a living out of the 12 hectare rubbish site. "I came here in 1996 after I stopped going to school because there was no money. "I come here every day early in the morning. We remove the garbage from the trucks, and then I sort...

Miriam Makeba remembered

Singer decried hunger, violence and poverty The sudden death of South African singer and human rights activist Miriam Makeba, 76, has claimed the voice of one of FAO’s most dedicated advocates, FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf said today. “For nearly a decade, FAO Goodwill Ambassador Miriam Makeba was a strong supporter of FAO’s fight to reduce hunger and improve the livelihoods of the world’s poorest people,” FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf said on learning of Makeba’s death. “Mama...

Gambian students back fromVenezuela speak

The Venezuela ambassador to the Gambia, Mrs Louder Perez, recently organised a briefing session for 7 Gambian students who had just returned from Venezuela, at the end of a 3 months intensive study in agriculture. The reception was hosted at the new Venezuelan Embassy complex in Kotu. The purpose of the briefing was to expose the students to the media so that they could share their knowledge with the wider Gambian community, as to the new skills and technologies that they acquired while in...

ZIMBABWE: Hunting for good garbage to eat

Desperate entrepreneurs are scouring rubbish dumps, abattoirs and poisoned waterways for scraps of food to eat or sell to other equally hungry Zimbabweans in a bid for survival. The implicit health hazards of rotting food and fish are a secondary concern to Saidi Arufandika, 60, who regularly cycles 34km from the dormitory town of Chitungwiza to the capital, Harare, to sift through the garbage at Mbare Musika market, where the traders discard heaps of tomatoes, cabbages, carrots and potatoes...

UGANDA: Drought, hunger drive Karamoja children to beg in Kampala

Agatha Locham, 23, sits with her two weak and malnourished children a few steps from the entrance to a bank in Kampala. “Mpayo ekikumi [give me a 100-shilling coin]," the boy, his stomach distended, shouts at passers-by. Locham and her children are among the increasing number of residents of the drought-prone region of Karamoja, north-eastern Uganda, who have travelled hundreds of kilometres to the city to beg to survive. She said her malnourished child was weak because they had not had a...

The role of the media in the prevention of malaria and HIV/Aids

The media being in the frontline of disseminating information has a big role to play when it comes to fight against the killer diseases, malaria and HIV/Aids in Africa and the world at large. Health reporters contribute a lot towards enlightening the general populace on the dangers and impacts of these ailments, raising awareness about possible symptoms, ways and means of prevention. Caused by a plasmodium parasite, which is injected into the blood stream of a potential victim by the mosquito,...

Well done Mr President

Editor, Please, allow space in your respectable medium to express my love and appreciation for the president of the Republic, Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh, for the good work he continues to embark on. He has done wonders since assuming the mantle of leadership of this country, which he in fact made to look like a real country, and its people feeling proud of themselves. He made all the roads bright and lovely. When we enter Banjul, the Arch 22 feeds our hearts with joy. Jammeh, you are a great...