#MySARSStory: Shattered Dreams
Emmanuel Egbo’s 13-year-old life was snuffed out 13 years ago by a law enforcement officer without reason or remorse.
by SaharaReporters, New York
Apr 23, 2021
Emmanuel Egbo was thirteen years old when a police officer killed him.
Think about the thirteen-year-olds in your life. They laugh a lot. Play a lot. Emmanuel was just like that. He loved to play football. Whenever he returned from school, he would finish his homework - if there was any - run errands like fetching firewood and planting cassava for his mother, then run to the field to play football.
On the evening of May 26, 2008, in Attakwu, a town in Enugu State, Emmanuel was in front of his uncle’s house playing ball one evening when trouble came. What was the trouble? Nigerian police. The police officers walked up to Emmanuel and asked him what he was doing. He stated the obvious: He was playing football.
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Poor funding is the major reason Nigeria failed to meet the pledge it made in 2012 to achieve a modern contraceptive prevalence rate (MCPR) of 27 per cent among women by 202O, health experts have said.
The family planning (FP) 2020 goal was to enable 120 million additional women and girls of reproductive age, globally, to have access to contraceptives by the year 2020.
At the dawn of the deadline, the FP 2020 target indicators show that Nigeria has only 12 per cent MCPR for women in the country.
FP advocates say the government continuously failed to meet its counterpart funding commitment for the goal thereby hindering progress.
By Nyema Richards, Programs and Learning Director AL Liberia, and Sanjeeta Pant, Programs and Learning Manager, AL Global
When Rap2Rep (now Voice2Rep or “Voice to Represent”) started in Liberia in 2015, it was a relatively small campaign to encourage creative activism among young people using Hip-Co- a popular Liberian genre often referred to as the ‘political music’. The campaign has since expanded to Nigeria and Zimbabwe, and, most recently, has also gained international attention. The campaign in Liberia was named by the UN as one of the finalists for the SDG Action Awards for “harnessing conscious music as a tool for social change through the platform of youth participation.” Voice2Rep was specifically recognized for informing people about the risks of coronavirus and debunking myths around it.
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IBM and Salesforce Join Forces to Help Organizations and Individuals Verify Vaccine and Health Status
IBM Digital Health Pass and Salesforce Work.com to help businesses, schools and governments as they strive to reopen safely in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic
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ARMONK, N.Y. and SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) today announced that they are partnering to help organizations as they strive to safely reopen public places and provide individuals with a verifiable and privacy-preserving way to manage and share their vaccination and health status in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of this offering, IBM Digital Health Pass will integrate with the Salesforce Work.com platform.