Report by James Harding Giahyue, ContributorSiakor on Saturday received the Black World Prize from the Mundo Negro magazine and the Comboni Missionaries at an elaborate ceremony in the Madrid, Spain. The groups said they gave Siakor the award for defending rural communities and nature against concession companies and politicians. The prize money for the award is €10,000. “Silas Siakor stars in a fight against illegal logging and political corruption in his country, Liberia,” said the Mundo Negro in a statement on its website. He also won the Whitley Award for Environment and Human Rights; and Alexander Soros Award for Extraordinary Achievements in Environmental and Human Rights Activism.

Source: Front Page Africa February 05, 2019 22:52 UTC