This case study looks at the approaches and innovations of private sector waste management companies, including in relation to their access to finance. The focus is on Freetown Waste Transformers (FWT), chosen for its pioneering role as a waste-to-energy company in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and its successful experiences leveraging both …
Bangladesh is among five most vulnerable countries to climate change-induced food crisis and hunger, says a report. It says the 10 countries that rank most vulnerable are DRC, Burundi, South Africa, Haiti, Bangladesh, Zambia, India, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia and Rwanda, which account for nearly a quarter of the world’s population. …
The annual number of children who die before they reach age five is shrinking, falling to 7.6 million global deaths in 2010 from more than 12 million in 1990, UNICEF and the World Health Organisation said on September 14. Overall, 12,000 fewer children under age 5 die each day than …
In West Africa two rice species (Oryza glaberrima Steud. and Oryza sativa L.) co-exist. Although originally it was thought that interspecific hybridization is impossible without biotechnological methods, progenies of hybridization appear to occur in farmer fields. AFLP analysis was used to assess genetic diversity in West Africa (including the countries …
It hasn't yet reached Ali Lamie's small store, which flashes with colours as he charges cellphones by the rack. But after more than 30 years, Bumbuna hydroelectric dam is bringing power and economic hope to Sierra Leone. Key sections of the capital Freetown were lit up this month when President …
The former Liberian President Charles Taylor ordered militias to eat the flesh of their enemies, a former death squad leader has told during his war crimes trial. Joseph "Zigzag' Marzah said Taylor had instructed his fighters in Liberia to eat un peacekeepers to "set an example for the people to …
In a surprise move, the government of Sierra Leone has suspended the export of timber saying that indiscriminate destruction by Chinese loggers in the country's north is wreaking havoc on its tropical forests and climate. Uncontrolled logging activities have already triggered soil erosion in the region, causing large-scale displacement of …
The Sierra Leone government has called for an inquiry into the unrest over diamond-mining operations in the eastern district of Kono, where residents were killed during protests in the second week of December, 2007. The government has asked the mining company, Koidu Holdings, to suspend its operations in Kono's Koidu …
• A girl born in Japan today may live till she is 85, but another born in Sierra Leone can expect to live only 36 years • Despite global gains, in 2002, while life expectancy at birth reached 78 years for developed country women, it fell to less than 46 …
