Liberia
Fri, 02 Jul 2021 04:10:40 GMTOver 350,000 Persons to Obtain Covid-19 Vaccination
[New Republic] The World Bank has approved Additional Financing to the Liberia COVID-19 Emergency Preparedness and Response Project to enable affordable and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines. The financing, in the total amount of $8 million grant...
Fri, 02 Jul 2021 08:40:34 GMTAuditor General Yusador Gaye Is Dead
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- FrontPageAfrica has been able to confirm the sudden death of Madam Yusador Gaye, Auditor General of the Republic of Liberia. She died on Thursday. FPA has not been able to confirm the cause of death.
Thu, 01 Jul 2021 14:51:32 GMTDr. Weah Suspends Deputy LIS Boss
[Govt of Liberia] The President of the Republic, H.E. Dr. George Manneh Weah, has suspended the Deputy Commissioner General for Operations at the Liberia Immigration Service, Abigail N. Wisseh.
Thu, 01 Jul 2021 14:51:26 GMT'France Will Give Tangible Support to Your Govt to Improve the Lives of Liberians' - Weah Told
[Govt of Liberia] The President of the Republic, H.E. Dr. George Manneh Weah has expressed profound gratitude to the government and people of France for the country's continued support to Liberia's development drive, especially in the areas of capaci...
Thu, 01 Jul 2021 10:57:55 GMTWar Crimes Court Witnesses At U.S. Congress Could Be Paid Agents - Amb. Patten Writes Foreign Affairs Committee to Investigate
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- Liberia's Ambassador to the United States of America has written the U.S. Congressional Committee on Foreign Affairs alleging that those who recently testified before the committee, making a case for the establishment of...
Thu, 01 Jul 2021 10:57:50 GMTYouth Advocate Calls On President Weah to Declare Drug Addiction a National Emergency
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- A leading youth advocate, Thomas Tamba Bundoo has called on President Weah to declare drug addiction a national emergency to effectively combat the flow and use of illicit drugs in the country.
Thu, 01 Jul 2021 10:57:46 GMTItalian NGO, AIFO, Closes 'Humanitarian Package' for Liberian Disabled People's Organization
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- In 2018, the Liberian Office of a pro-Human Rights and capacity-building Italian Non-Governmental Organization (NGO)--named Association Friends of Raoul Follereau (AIFO)--established a project for Liberia's community of ...
Thu, 01 Jul 2021 10:57:43 GMTCEDEM Raises Red Flag Over Delay in Certificating Cape Mount Senatorial Election Winner
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The Center for Development and Election Management (CEDEM) has thrown its weight in many calls by individuals and groups for the certification of Simeon Taylor, declared winner in the December 2020 senatorial election in...
Thu, 01 Jul 2021 10:57:39 GMTRep. Dixon Seboe Identifies With Victims of Sea Erosion in New Kru Town
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- Montserrado County District #16 Representative Dixon Seboe has identified with victims of sea erosion in Lagoon community in the Borough of New Kru Town.
Thu, 01 Jul 2021 10:57:36 GMTThe Referendum Could Have Given Weah Possible Three Terms - Here's What History Teaches Us
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Thu, 01 Jul 2021 10:57:33 GMTMandigos Feeling Targeted in War Crimes Trials
[FrontPageAfrica] Barkedu -- The convictions of Alieu Kosiah and Mohammed Jabateh for war crimes committed in Liberia sparked celebrations across Liberia. 18 years since the war ended survivors saw them as long overdue justice for the horrors of the ...
Thu, 01 Jul 2021 10:57:29 GMTGrand Bassa District 2 Residents Still Drinking From Contaminated Creek
[FrontPageAfrica] District Two -- Residents of William Potter Town and Gborpue Town in Marlor Clan, District 2 in Grand Bassa County are left with no alternative but to drink from contaminated creeks due to lack of safe drinking water in their area.
Thu, 01 Jul 2021 10:57:26 GMTSolicitor General Endorses Establishment of Transitional Justice Commission to Review TRC Recommendations
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The Plenary of the Liberian Senate on Wednesday constituted itself into a committee of a whole to begin public hearings into its leadership's recommendation on the way forward in implementing the recommendations of the T...
Thu, 01 Jul 2021 05:41:38 GMTLWHN Calls for Closure of Schools
[New Dawn] The Liberian Women Humanitarian Network or LWHN has called for the closure of schools in the country in the midst of the rapid increase in the cases of coronavirus here.
Thu, 01 Jul 2021 05:41:37 GMTTeam Andy Calls for Impartial Probe
[New Dawn] -in lawmaker's alleged drug trafficking claim
Thu, 01 Jul 2021 05:41:37 GMTEcowas Push to Return Cultural Properties to Their Countries of Origin
[New Dawn] Hold first meeting in Cotonou.
Thu, 01 Jul 2021 05:41:36 GMTU.S. Recommends Steps to Improve Liberia's Fiscal Transparency
[New Dawn] The U.S. State Department's 2021 fiscal transparency report on Liberia has recommended several steps to the government here, to improving financial transparency in the public sector, including a need to make budget documents publicly avail...
Thu, 01 Jul 2021 05:41:34 GMTUNDP Debunks Cable TV False Facebook Story On the Spread of the Covid-19 By the Agency Staff
[New Dawn] The attention of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has been drawn to a false Facebook story carried by Cable TV, alleging that UNDP Staff is responsible for the recent wave of Covid-19 cases in Liberia.
Thu, 01 Jul 2021 05:41:30 GMTLiberia Expects 96,000 Vaccines
[New Dawn] By Winston W. Parley
Thu, 01 Jul 2021 07:32:09 GMTJustice, Labour INCHR End Two Days Consultative Dialogue
[New Republic] About thirty five participants ranging from relevant government institutions, the County Labor Commissioner, women groups' representatives, representatives from Civil Society Organizations, representative from the physically challenged...
Thu, 01 Jul 2021 05:00:55 GMTLiberia Appreciates Japan's Assistance
[New Republic] The Minister of Health Dr Wilhelmina Jallah has welcome decision by the Government and people of Japan through Ambassador H.E HIMENO Tsutomu to launch two programmes to strengthen the delivery of routine health services in health facil...
Wed, 30 Jun 2021 12:22:29 GMTSnowe On ECOWAS Mission
[New Dawn] The Chairman of the Political Affairs and Security Committee of the ECOWAS Parliament, Senator Edwin Snowe has paid an official visit to the Headquarters of the ECOWAS Military Intervention in The Gambia or ECOMIG, ahead of that country's ...
Wed, 30 Jun 2021 12:22:26 GMTSeveral Red Cross Officials Indicted
[New Dawn] An indictment has been secured for the arrest and criminal prosecution of several former officials of the Liberia National Red Cross, the Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission or LACC, has revealed.
Wed, 30 Jun 2021 12:22:22 GMTCummings Africa Foundation Continues Assessment Tour
[New Dawn] The Cummings Africa Foundation continues its assessment tour of hospitals on Monday as it prepares to make interventions in the fight against the raging coronavirus here.
Wed, 30 Jun 2021 12:22:18 GMTPresident Weah Fails to Exercise Leadership
[New Dawn] -Dr. Cassell
Wed, 30 Jun 2021 12:22:14 GMTLiberian Returnees Accuse Govt of 'Abandonment'
[New Dawn] Bong County -- Liberian returnees residing in Lutheran Global Village, Bong County say they have been abandoned by the Government of Liberia despite many calls for support to their livelihoods.
Wed, 30 Jun 2021 12:22:11 GMTLofa Shuts Down Covid - Hit Daycare
[New Dawn] As cases hit 29 in the county
Wed, 30 Jun 2021 12:22:05 GMTGovernment of Liberia Restricts Funeral Services
[New Dawn] As COVID-19 rages
Wed, 30 Jun 2021 12:22:01 GMTCentral Bank of Liberia Expands MPC Membership to the Private Sector
[New Dawn] As it moves towards becoming the peoples bank
Wed, 30 Jun 2021 10:01:55 GMTECOWAS Parliament's Chair On Political Affairs, Peace, Security and APRM Visits ECOWAS Military Intervention in the Gambia
[FrontPageAfrica] Banjul -- As The Gambia prepares for Presidential and Legislative Elections in December of 2021, the Honorable Speaker of the ECOWAS Parliament, Rt. Hon. Dr. Sidie Mohamed Tunis commissioned a visit of the Chairman of the Parliament...