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Wed, 15 Sep 2021 14:34:23 GMT
Congressman to Rally Support for Liberia Second MCC Bid
[FrontPageAfrica] Washington D.c. -- Influential U.S. Senator Lindsay Graham has committed to rallying his congressional colleagues of the Republican Party to sign a "Letter of Support" for Liberia's second bid of the coveted Compact Program under th...

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 13:10:47 GMT
Pres. Weah Leaves for Extraordinary ECOWAS Session in Ghana
[Govt of Liberia] The President of the Republic, H.E. Dr. George Manneh Weah has departed Monrovia for an extraordinary session of West African Heads of State and Government in Accra.

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 11:12:17 GMT
Police Investigates Random Shooting Near Ruling Party Headquarters
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The Liberia National Police says they are investigating the shooting of National Transit Authority bus conductor who is said to be in a critical condition at the John F. Kennedy Memorial Medical Center.

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 11:12:14 GMT
Torture Survivor Cries Out for Help to Rebuild Her Life After a Horrifying Experience
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- On the morning of December 12, 2018, Liberians in Sinoe, in the southeast of the country, opened their eyes to a rude awakening - three women had been stripped naked and paraded in Johnny on suspicion that they were invo...

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 11:12:13 GMT
Police Charge Five Niko Ivanka Crew Members for Criminally Sailing the Faulty Vessel
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- Police in Monrovia have charged and forwarded to court five crew members of the Niko Ivanka vessel, following its wreckage on July 17.

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 11:12:09 GMT
Liberia Risk Constitutional Crisis - J. Brownie Samukai Jr. Case?
[FrontPageAfrica] The Samukai et al AFL Pension Fund Case is creating National Embarrassment in the country for talk show hosts, judges and lawyers particularly those who love to go on radios and televisions to express their abysmal, weak and dismal ...

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 11:12:07 GMT
Citizens Fear Potential Double Crises
[FrontPageAfrica] - National staple in short supply amid Covid-19

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 11:12:04 GMT
Solicitor General and Ellen Corkrum, Who's Saying the Truth?
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- Madam Ellen Corkrum has claimed she had an intimate relationship with Cllr. Syrenius Cephus during her stay in Liberia as her public war of words with the country's Solicitor General rumbles on.

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 11:12:01 GMT
CSOs Launch Nationwide Covid-19 Vaccine Awareness Campaign Amid Effort to Curb Vaccine Hesitancy
[FrontPageAfrica] A campaign seeking to discourage vaccine hesitancy among Liberians by engaging communities across the country to turn out and get vaccinated against coronavirus has been launched in Monrovia.

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 11:12:00 GMT
LACC Investigates Bill Twehway Over Multiple Corruption Saga At the National Port Authority
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC) on Tuesday interrogated the Managing Director of the National Port Authority (NPA), Mr. Bill Twehway, over his alleged connection to the dubious transfer of US$300,000 from t...

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 11:11:58 GMT
Council of Churches President Calls Speedy Investigation Into Corruption Saga Involving Top Officials
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The President of the Liberia Council of Churches (LCC), Bishop Kortu K. Brown, says the nation is heading on a "slippery slope" due to the increase in acts of corruption involving public officials, power theft, continuou...

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 11:11:55 GMT
ECOWAS Commission Directorate On Peace and Regional Security Concludes a Five-Day Fact-Finding Mission in Liberia
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- A six-member delegation from the ECOWAS Commission Directorate on Peace and Regional Security and the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC) has concluded a five-day fact-finding mission to finalize arrangements...

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 08:40:14 GMT
Speech by Lakshmi N. Mittal , At the Signing Ceremony of 3rd Amended MDA
[New Republic] Executive Chairman, Arcelor Mittal Global

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 08:38:02 GMT
Covid-19 Feed Witness Increase in SGBV
[New Republic] As the world retreated inside homes due to the lockdown measures introduced to curb the COVID-19 pandemic, report from the Ministry of Gender Children Social Protection showed alarming increase in the already existing epic-pandemic of ...

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 08:44:03 GMT
Fear in Monrovia
[New Dawn] As residents discover woman dead

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 08:44:01 GMT
Boakai - Vice President Is Not My Calling
[New Dawn] Liberia's former Vice President Amb. Joseph Nyumah Boakai has rejected suggestions here that he might stand as running mate to Mr. Alexander B. Cummings on the Collaborating Political Parties (CPP) presidential ticket in 2023, saying runni...

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 08:43:59 GMT
JFI Director Wants Accused Police Officers Prosecuted
[New Dawn] Justice Forum Liberia (JFL) executive director Maxson S. Kpakio decries an increased wave of police brutality in the country and calls on the Inspector General (IG) of Police Colonel Patrick Sudue to forward for prosecution three of his of...

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 08:43:59 GMT
Police Investigate Nta Driver's Injury At CDC HQ
[New Dawn] Police in Monrovia says they are investigating an incident resulting in the injury of National Transit Authority (NTA) driver Jessie Baytuah at the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) Headquarters in Congo Town on Saturday, 11 September ...

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 08:43:56 GMT
Bong County - Senator Tokpa Under Spotlight Over Campaign Promises
[New Dawn] Bong County Senator Dr. Henrique Flomo Tokpa has been under the limelight in recent days over his failure to fulfill promises he made during the 2018 senatorial by-election.

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 08:43:55 GMT
Liberia Risk Constitutional Crisis - J. Brownie Samukai Jr. Case?
[New Dawn] The Samukai et al AFL Pension Fund Case is creating National Embarrassment in the country for talk show hosts, judges, and lawyers particularly those who love to go on radios and televisions to express their abysmal, weak, and dismal opini...

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 08:43:54 GMT
EPA Grounds Vessel With Hazardous Waste
[New Dawn] The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has grounded a vessel SSI DAUNTLESS reportedly carrying about 200 metric tons of potentially hazardous waste called Gypsum at the Port of Buchanan.

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 08:43:51 GMT
Niko Ivanka Vessel Owner Sent to Court
[New Dawn] The Liberia National Police (LNP) has sent to court the owner of the MV Niko Ivanka vessel, Alex Tuo, and others for alleged negligence homicide, recklessly endangering another person, criminal conspiracy, and criminal facilitation, after ...

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 08:43:49 GMT
Citizens Want 2 Sinoe Officials Out
[New Dawn] For alleged corruption

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 08:43:46 GMT
Unity Party Chair Modad Writes Cummings
[New Dawn] Unity Party national chairman Amin Modad, says the party's intent to have endorsed former vice president Joseph Nyumah Boakai as standard bearer to contest for the Collaborating Political Parties (CPP) presidential ticket was genuine with ...

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 08:43:43 GMT
Dr. Cassell - We Will Not Take 'Susu' to Improve Your Living Conditions
[New Dawn] The Vision Bearer of the People's Liberation Party (PLP), Dr. Daniel E. Cassell, has admonished Liberians against pledging their support to recycle and failed Liberian politicians who take loans from commercial banks and other areas to win...

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 07:44:16 GMT
LP Scribe Indicts Political Leader
[New Dawn] The Secretary-General of the opposition Liberty Party Martin Kollah indicts the LP political leader Senator Nyonblee, Kangar Lawrence, for allegedly inciting the weekend's violence at the LP headquarters in Sinkor, Monrovia.

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 07:44:15 GMT
CPP Wahala - I Refuse to Endorse the Wrong
[New Dawn] Cummings justifies action against Boakai

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 05:43:46 GMT
Liberia Concludes 3-Day Training to Strengthen Event-Based Surveillance Through Epidemic Intelligence From Open Sources
[WHO-AFRO] Monrovia -- To better detect acute public health events with pandemic potential and to monitor disease control measures on a real time basis, the National Institute of Public Health in Liberia (NPHIL) and the Ministry of Health (MOH) with ...

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 13:22:33 GMT
U.S.$158,000 Market Building Abandoned
[New Dawn] A modern market building constructed under the African Development Bank (AfDB) funded Mano River Union Road Transport Programme has become a ghost town in Maryland County.

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 13:22:31 GMT
Government, UNDP to Launch Youth Eco-Brigade to Fight Waste Menace
[New Dawn] The Government of Liberia through the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MOCI) with support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) officially launched the Piso Eco-brigade Programme in Robertsport, Grand Cape Mount County.



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