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Tue, 05 Apr 2022 07:38:40 GMT
Counties Set to Roll Out Gender Responsive Planning and Budgeting Following Capacity Building
[FrontPageAfrica] Ganta -- The Government of Liberia, with support from UNDP, has completed training-of-trainers (TOTs) capacity building for local government personnel from the 15 counties, who will spearhead gender mainstreaming and gender-responsi...

Tue, 05 Apr 2022 07:38:37 GMT
Online Platform JournalRAGE Faces Roadblocks As Founder Gboko Stewart Strives to Secure Funding
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- Gboko Stewart is a human rights journalist who founded journalRAGE, a news platform dedicated to covering the underground LGBTQ community in Liberia. The aim of journalRAGE is to combat violent homophobia by giving a voi...

Tue, 05 Apr 2022 07:38:36 GMT
Residents of Monrovia Protest At Police Headquarters Demanding Justice for Death of Compatriot
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- On Monday, hundreds of Liberians gathered in front of the headquarters of the Liberia National Police in Monrovia to protest the death of one Kolubah Marshall.

Tue, 05 Apr 2022 07:38:34 GMT
Pres. Weah Forms Cabinet Committee to Assess and Solve Roberts International Airport Electricity Dilemma
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The Minister of State for Presidential Affairs, Nathaniel McGill, has said that President George Weah is concerned about the current state of the Roberts International Airport (RIA) and efforts are being exerted to addre...

Tue, 05 Apr 2022 07:38:33 GMT
First Major Fact-Checking Project Funded By European Union Launched in Liberia
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The Liberia Media Initiative has officially unveiled Liberia's first fact-checking desk aimed at countering and debunking fake news, disinformation, and misinformation within Liberia's information ecosystem.

Tue, 05 Apr 2022 07:38:29 GMT
U.S. Ambassador Urges Liberia to Improve People's Access to Stable Electricity
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- United States Ambassador to Liberia, Michael McCarthy, is encouraging the Government of Liberia to complete all commercial framework documents including the Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Cote d'Ivoire and the Trans...

Tue, 05 Apr 2022 07:38:26 GMT
AFELL Boss Wants Next Chief Justice to Be a Female
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The President of the Association of Female Lawyers of Liberia (AFELL), Atty. Philomena T. Williams wants President George Weah to nominate a female as the next Chief Justice of the Republic of Liberia.

Tue, 05 Apr 2022 07:38:23 GMT
National Elections Commission to Rule On UP, ALP Exit From the CPP Today
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The Board of Commissioners of the National Elections Commission will on Tuesday render final judgment on the complaint filed by the Liberty Party and the Alternative National Congress regarding the abrupt exit of the Uni...

Tue, 05 Apr 2022 07:38:19 GMT
Leading CSOs Blast Liberian Legislature for Taking 'Unconstitutional' Break
[FrontPageAfrica] Paynesville -- Two leading civil society organizations, NAYMOTE Partners for Democratic Development and the Institute for Research and Democratic Development (IREDD) have condemned the Liberian Legislature for secretly enacting an a...

Tue, 05 Apr 2022 07:15:06 GMT
Legislature - Why It Needs to Ratify AML Deal
[New Republic] The Liberian legislature has come under sharp criticism over the past years for many reasons ranging from its manner of handling of concession agreements to dealing with domestic utility work and failing to address the needs of their c...

Tue, 05 Apr 2022 08:26:32 GMT
Commissioner Miapuie Seeks Govt's Empowerment
[New Republic] Nimba County Wee-gbeh District Commissioner, Kenech Kuoh Miapuie has appealed to the Liberian Government through the Ministry of Internal Affairs to empower local leaders, especially commissioners.

Tue, 05 Apr 2022 08:26:31 GMT
USAID-Liberia Ends 3-Day Workshop
[New Republic] -In Curriculum Revisions Board in Bong

Tue, 05 Apr 2022 08:26:30 GMT
UP Sounds Caveat
[New Republic] Unity Party National Assistant Secretary-General for Press, Publicity and Outreach Cornelia Kruah -Togba has warned authorities at the National Elections Commission (NEC) not the tamper with the party's candidate Galakpai Kortima in th...

Mon, 04 Apr 2022 07:46:17 GMT
Liberia Bids Dr. Sawyer Farewell At a State Funeral
[New Dawn] The birds sang in unison, as the trees clapped their hands, amidst a chorus of sirens as the nation bid farewell to one of its illustrious son-Dr. Amos C. Sawyer on Saturday, April 2.

Mon, 04 Apr 2022 08:05:00 GMT
Liberian Muslims Begin Ramadan
[New Republic] As President Weah, Others Congratulate Them

Mon, 04 Apr 2022 07:50:26 GMT
Ex-President Sirleaf Blames Dark RIA for Failure of More Dignitaries to Attend Dr. Sawyer's Funeral
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- Ex-President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf caused a roar of laughter at the Centennial Pavilion while delivering her tribute to the late Dr. Amos C. Sawyer, former interim of Liberia. She disclosed that she expected more of her ...

Mon, 04 Apr 2022 07:50:25 GMT
Govt Reduces Prices of Petroleum Products
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The Government of Liberia has announced new adjustments in the market price of petroleum products on the Liberian market. The change is in keeping with the government's promise to review the cost of the commodity in the ...

Mon, 04 Apr 2022 07:50:24 GMT
ULAA Addresses Concerns to Allay Fear Over U.S.$100k Donation
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The Union of Liberian Associations in the Americas (ULAA) has come forth to allay fears and address concerns of some Liberians as it relates to the Government of Liberia's (GOL) US$100,000 pledge and US$300,000 budgetary...

Mon, 04 Apr 2022 07:50:23 GMT
WFP Donates Laptops to National Food Assistance Agency
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- In a bid to promote efficiency and productivity towards the distribution of food to vulnerable Liberian students and their parents in three counties across Liberia, the World Food Programme (WFP) in Liberia has donated 1...

Mon, 04 Apr 2022 07:50:21 GMT
Liberial Govt 'Secretly' Signs Rail Usage Framework Agreement With HPX While Arcelormittal MDA Still Dangles
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The usage and management of the railway running from Yekepa, Nimba County, to the Port of Buchanan remains the major unresolved factor stalling the passage of the third ArcelorMittal Mineral Development Agreement, howeve...

Mon, 04 Apr 2022 07:50:19 GMT
Rep. Acarous Gray Iterates Liberia's Strong Stance Against Coups in the Region
[FrontPageAfrica] Strabourg -- Representative Acarous Moses Gray has reiterated Liberia's strong stance against any form of unconstitutional change of power in Sub-saharan Africa. Speaking on April 1, 2022 at the 41st joint parliamentary meeting of t...

Mon, 04 Apr 2022 07:50:16 GMT
Biden Administration Puts Writing On the Wall for Weah's Administration
[FrontPageAfrica] IN RECENT weeks, two senior high-profile members of the Biden administration have delivered a clear-cut message to President Georgia Weah and his government: Corruption is at the core of government lapses and killing the democracy.

Mon, 04 Apr 2022 07:50:14 GMT
'Liberia's Foremost Issue Is Corruption' - Amb. Linda Thomas-Greenfield Laments
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- Former U.S. Ambassador to Liberia, Linda Thomas Greenfield, who prides herself as a 'Friend of Liberia' has lamented the wave of corruption in Liberia which she has named as the foremost issue confronting the country.

Mon, 04 Apr 2022 07:50:14 GMT
Jewel Howard Taylor to Remain As Running Mate to Pres. Weah in 2023
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The chairman of the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC), Mulbah Morlu, has described Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor as a "reliable deputy" who has all the odds in her favor to be retained as running mate to Presiden...

Mon, 04 Apr 2022 07:50:12 GMT
Monrovia City Govt Condemns Attack On Mayor Koijee
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The City Government of Monrovia has condemned in the highest term an unprovoked and unjustified attack on Monrovia City Mayor Jefferson T. Koijee by contaminated and unscrupulous individuals who were seen wearing paraphe...

Mon, 04 Apr 2022 07:50:09 GMT
Liberia Football Association VPA Konneh Poised to Retain Post
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- As the April 18 date for the Liberia Football Association (LFA) elections draws closer, stakeholders will be pondering as to who will be elected to steer the affairs of the LFA for the next four years. It will be up to t...

Mon, 04 Apr 2022 07:50:08 GMT
Cece United Takes Control of LFA 2nd Division Table
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- Saye Town-based Liberia Football Association second division outfit Cece United has taken full control of the second division table after hard fought win over Gardnersville FC.

Mon, 04 Apr 2022 07:46:26 GMT
NPP Prepares for Convention, But...
[New Dawn] As mandated in the recent ruling by the Hearing Officer of the National Elections Commission (NEC), the ruling National Patriotic Party (NPP) has appointed an 11-member Convention Coordinating Committee to take the party to its long-awaite...

Mon, 04 Apr 2022 07:46:16 GMT
MOT Holds Dialogue On Axle Load Control
[New Dawn] The Government of Liberia through the Ministry of Transport (MOT) has conducted a one-day workshop on the overview of Axle Load Laws and structure of the Axle Load Control unit that is said to be established at the Ministry of Transport.

Mon, 04 Apr 2022 08:19:26 GMT
More 'Grease' to Morris' Elbows
[New Republic] A Liberian journalist in central Liberia, Bong County has completed the construction of a modern media center as he has been commended by scores of citizens of the County for his achievement.



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