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Chief Zanzan Karwor: ‘We need plenty sacrifice to say goodbye to our tradition’
As the Government of Liberia, through the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection in collaboration with UN Women, observed the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation in the country, there were telling signs that the prospects of eradicating of the practice from Liberia appear encouraging and painstakingly so.
In spite of significant amounts of awareness raised over the years about the harmful nature of the practice of FGM, the National Traditional Council of Liberia has been entrenched in the practice.
“We are traditional people, but this is something we have been inside for a very long time. So if your want for us to cancel our society, we need to do plenty sacrifice to say goodbye to our tradition,” the head of the Traditional Council, Chief Zanzan Karwor, told a United Nations-sponsored annual awareness against FGM over the weekend.
Rescue efforts are under way after part of a Himalayan glacier broke off on Sunday and sent a wall of water and debris rushing down a mountain, trapping power plant workers in a tunnel. Experts say the disaster could be linked to global warming.
KOTLI: Prime Minister Imran Khan addressing a public meeting to mark the Kashmir Solidarity Day on Friday. INP
MUZAFFARABAD: In a path-breaking announcement in his key address at a public meeting in Kotli on the occasion of Kashmir Solidarity Day, Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday announced that people of Kashmir would be at liberty to decide if they want to be part of Pakistan or as an independent nation even after deciding accession to Pakistan in a United Nations-sponsored referendum.
Accompanied by Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Minister for Kashmir Affairs Ali Amin Gandapur, Mr Khan made this announcement at the public meeting organised by the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) in a playground.
Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, a businessman-turned-politician, has been chosen as Libya’s new interim prime minister following lengthy United Nations-sponsored talks aimed at ending a decade of conflict in the North African country.
Dbeibah, along with a three-member Presidential Council, will have the crucial and difficult task of preparing the ground for fair and transparent national elections in December, as well as ensuring the safe participation of Libyans in the electoral process.
The choice of Dbeibah on Friday came as a surprise to many, given the construction mogul’s close association with Libya’s former longtime ruler, Muammar Gaddafi.
Born in 1959 in the western city of Misrata, traditionally seen as a bastion of resistance to Gaddafi’s four-decade grip on power, Dbeibah moved to Canada early on in his career to pursue a graduate degree in engineering at the University of Toronto.