Development

Monrovia - What was, at the beginning, intended as a humanitarian gesture from Rev. Trevor Cockings of “His Church” in the UK, for survivors of the Ebola Virus Disease through the office of vice President Joseph Boakai, has become political with National Legislature Movement for the Election of Boakai (NALEMBO) using it to score political capital among staff at the Legislature.

Three containers containing 17,010 cases of couscous while the other three contained 5,139 cases of tuna fish were made available by His Church, a UK based church, for survivors of Ebola and school going children.

On Thursday March 30, 2016, a memo was posted on the walls of the Capitol and at every entrance of the building, informing all staff of the building about a planned distribution of Tuna fish from the office of Vice President Joseph Boakai.

Chinese traditional medicines over the years had been used to heal many sicknesses across the world with particular reference to Africa and Asia from the 1960’s to date.
China’s medical cooperation in Africa started in Algeria in 1963 as a call from the Algerian government for international medical assistance and extended to other countries including Sierra Leone which benefited from the first Chinese Medical Team (CMT) in March 1973 but were withdrawn in 1993 as a result of the war and re-dispatched in December 2002.
Over the years, these CMT have been curing various sicknesses without any form of international recognition until late 2015 when the first 85 year old Chinese female scientist, Professor Tu You you, was awarded in Sweden ‘the 2015 Noble Prize in Medicine’ for her pi