SLPW Connects with Global Diaspora Forum (ED Interviewed)
Jesmed Suma
1. How significant is the Global Diaspora Forum (GDF) to SLPW and the Sierra Leone Diaspora?
2. What tangible benefits SLPW and Sierra Leoneans stand to gain from the Global Diaspora Forum?
3. You presented an excellent paper on How to Drastically Cut Sierra Leone’s Rice Imports in Five Years on your facebook forum. One of GDF Partners is the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). Relating to your aforementioned paper in rice sufficiency, do you intend or plan to partner with the IADF to implement your ideas to help return Sierra Leone to its former self-sufficiency in rice?
4. A news report by VOA says Africans are concerned that they may be losers under new immigration reform laws debate in Washington. That if the new bill is passed it would replace the visa lottery by a merit-based system that gives more points to highly educated applicants and ultimately reduce the number of African immigrants. The question is since the State department is a major partner of GDF and the federal agency that handles visas, would you be advocating for the retention of visa lottery and other immigration issues on behalf of Africans during the forum?
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