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Tue, 09 Feb 2021 09:44:25 GMT
Liberia President's Son Claims Immunity After Arrest At Paris Party Under Curfew
[RFI] Liberia President George Weah's son was arrested last week in Paris for breaking Covid-19 curfew rules with a raucous house party. French police intervened at an apartment in an upscale neighbourhood of the capital and questioned George Weah Jr...

Tue, 09 Feb 2021 09:25:47 GMT
New U.S. Ambassador Michael Mccarthy Handovers 430 Current Textbooks to Nursing and Midwifery Institutions in Liberia
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- Ambassador Michael McCarthy, the new United States Ambassador accredited to Monrovia has stressed that the United States government is willing to support the health sector of Liberia. He, at the same time, handed over 43...

Tue, 09 Feb 2021 09:25:39 GMT
LMHRA Warns Public Against Buying Drugs From People Selling in Buckets
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The open sale of drugs both traditional and pharmaceutical by unregistered outlets is a major concern in Liberia.

Tue, 09 Feb 2021 09:25:23 GMT
Bong Businessman Ansu Sesay Allegedly Squanders Over U.S.$11k Meant for Clinic Construction
[FrontPageAfrica] The hopes of residents of Baryarta Town in electoral District Two in Bong county who thought relief was underway with the construction of a clinic have been dashed after a businessman in Bong County, Ansu Sesay, received US$11,552 t...

Tue, 09 Feb 2021 09:25:10 GMT
Govt, Development Partners Rollup Sleeves to Issue Flag Certificates to Timbers Selling
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The long-term technical assistance for the Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) in Liberia has met at the Boulevard Palace in Sinkor to institute a plan that will ensure an agreement that will see timbers and forestry p...

Tue, 09 Feb 2021 08:55:52 GMT
Lonestar Cell MTN Teams Up With the Ministry of Defense to Celebrate the Armed Forces Day
[New Republic] The Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) won the Armed Forces Day Tournament over the weekend, just ahead of the Armed Forces Day celebration February 11th. The Ministry of Defense in collaboration with Lonestar Cell MTN organized the tournam...

Tue, 09 Feb 2021 08:55:47 GMT
K-Net to Install Cellular Tower in Dweken, E-Learning Platform in Grand Kru County
[New Republic] GRAND KRU-Deputy Speaker Cllr. J. Fonati Koffa has disclosed that during his recent visit to Ghana, he had initiated negotiations with K-net for the installation of a first cellular communications tower in Dweken -- a town comprising o...

Tue, 09 Feb 2021 08:42:00 GMT
Submission of Entries Opens for Andrei Stenin Contest 2021
[New Dawn] The seventh Andrei Stenin International Press Photo Contest kicks off in Moscow. As per tradition, the submission of young photographers' entries opens on the birthday of Rossiya Segodnya's special photo correspondent Andrei Stenin, who di...

Tue, 09 Feb 2021 08:41:59 GMT
Another By-Election in Bong
[New Dawn] The National Elections Commission, (NEC) says it has received a notification from the Honorable House of Representatives for a vacancy in the 54th National Legislature. A release from the NEC today Monday, 8 February 2021 says the communic...

Tue, 09 Feb 2021 08:41:58 GMT
Weah to Break Ground for New Sports Park
[New Dawn] President George M. Weah is expected to break ground this Tuesday, February 9, 2021 for a new Sports Park to be constructed at the well- known Sinkor-Airfield Football Field on Tubman Boulevard.

Tue, 09 Feb 2021 08:41:57 GMT
Speaker Snubs Aggrieved Workers
[New Dawn] The Speaker of the House of Representatives has reportedly snubbed aggrieved staffers protesting for 17 months' pay arrears. Speaker Bhofal Chambers, who was in his office at the Capitol Building during the time of the protest reportedly r...

Tue, 09 Feb 2021 08:41:56 GMT
America Wants More Liberian Women
[New Dawn] -in politics and leadership

Tue, 09 Feb 2021 08:41:54 GMT
Pay or Face Jail
[New Dawn] -Supreme Court sentences ex- Defense Minister

Tue, 09 Feb 2021 08:41:53 GMT
'No One Person Can Take LP in One Direction'
[New Dawn] -LP spokesman

Tue, 09 Feb 2021 07:47:15 GMT
Supreme Court Upholds Lower Court Verdict On Brownie Samukai
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The Supreme Court of Liberia has affirmed the verdict of the lower court convicting Lofa County Senator-elect, Brownie Samukai, and others to two years imprisonment or the restitution of US$1.4 million.

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 10:57:16 GMT
UN System in Liberia Wants Government Implement All UPR Recommendations
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The United Nations in Liberia led by its Resident Coordinator Niels Scott, has called on the Liberian Government to implement all of the UN Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) recommendations covering ...

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 10:57:12 GMT
Aggrieved Grand Cape Mount Senatorial Candidate Calls On Supporters to Remain Calm As Elections Commission Look Into His Complaint
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- Aggrieved Grand Cape Mount County Senator Victor Varney Watson has alarmed that the fraudulent conduct of electoral activities in Liberia will serve as a recipe for chaos and instability in the country in the future, if ...

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 10:57:09 GMT
Introducing Sanctity in Liberia's Nascent Democracy - a Country in Transition to Violence
[FrontPageAfrica] It is indeed an open secret that Liberia's transition from civil war to a post-war nation took a relatively longer period of time from its inception in the late 1980s to 1997. These moments of civil instability created the recipe fo...

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 10:57:06 GMT
The Liberian Government Must Get to the Bottom of Ofac Accusations Regarding Sen. Varney Sherman's Bribery in Judiciary Branch
[FrontPageAfrica] The Trend of the Three minute presentation of each Senator at the Senate Sitting of last Thursday, February 4, 2021, in reaction to the Preliminary Report of the Senate Leadership on the Submission of January 11, 2021 and the First ...

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 10:57:05 GMT
Open Letter to the Members of the Legislature
[FrontPageAfrica] A request of Intervention on the Kangaroo Dismissal of members of the LWSC Workers Union & the Disbandment of the Worker Union in via lotion of the Decent Work Act, 2015

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 10:57:00 GMT
Keynote Message Delivered By Cllr. Tiawan S. Gongloe, President of the Liberia National Bar Association At the 2021 Armed Forces Symposium
[FrontPageAfrica] "Enhancing Military and Legislative Interaction in a Democracy: Liberia in perspective"

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 10:56:56 GMT
The Board of Commissioners of the National Elections Commission Reaffirms Numene T.h. Bartkwa Winner Grand Kru County Senatorial Election
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The Board of Commissioners of the National Elections Commission, over the weekend affirmed and confirmed its earlier declaration ruling declaring Numene T. H. Bartekwa as winner of the 8 December 2020 Special Senatorial ...

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 10:56:53 GMT
Ministry of Mines and Energy Inspects Illegal Mining Sites Southeastern Liberia
[FrontPageAfrica] Maryland County -- Mining Inspectors from the Ministry of Mines and Energy, currently carrying out operations against illicit and illegal Mining activities in Southeastern Liberia, have reported major progress in Barrobo District, M...

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 10:56:52 GMT
'Global Partnership Is Cardinal for Health Security' - President Weah Calls for Joint Efforts to Combat Health Crisis
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- President George Manneh Weah has called for joint efforts to combat various health crisis affecting countries across the globe.

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 10:56:49 GMT
Finance Minister Tweah, New U.S. Ambassador Rap On Development Potential in Liberia
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The United States Ambassador assigned to Liberia, Michael A. McCarthy has lauded President George M. Weah and the government of Liberia for the economic and developmental strides made amidst what he termed as "daunting c...

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 10:56:45 GMT
Nine-Month-Old Child Unable to Sit or Lay On the Back Due to Growth On the Buttocks - Caretaker Pleads for Assistance to Perform Surgery
[FrontPageAfrica] Buchanan -- Life is becoming very unbearable for nine months old little Blessed Jones who can't sit or lay on her back due to unknown sickness that needs surgery.

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 10:36:36 GMT
Electoral Fraud or Not, Ruling CDC Could Hinge On Brownie Samukai's Pending Case Before the Supreme Court to Thwart His Reaffirmed Victory
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- Lofa County Senator-elect Brownie Samukai of the opposition Collaborating Political Parties (CPP) might be forced into the Supreme Court to defend his victory as the ruling Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) is leavin...

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 10:11:28 GMT
Free Liberia Movement, Universal Human Rights, Harvard University Lawyers Call On President Biden to Re-Designate Ded to Protect All Liberians
[FrontPageAfrica] Boston, Massachusetts -- The Free Liberia Movement, Universal Human Rights International, and Lawyers from the Harvard University Law School are calling on the Biden-Harris Administration to immediately end decades of "cruel, inhuma...

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 10:09:28 GMT
President Weah Urges AU Leaders to Maintain Focus - Take Practical Actions for Sustainable Reforms
[Govt of Liberia] The President of the Republic, H.E. Dr. George Manneh Weah, has admonished leaders of the African Union (AU) to remain focused on the impressive and laudable work of reforming and keeping the Continental Body afloat in the interest ...

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 10:05:11 GMT
Prosecution Alleges Gibril Massaquoi Directed Witnesses in War Crimes Trial
[FrontPageAfrica] Tampere, Finland -- Prosecutors in the war crimes trial of Gibril Massaquoi alleged Friday that the defendant tried to influence witnesses in the case. State Prosecutor Tom Laitinen told presiding judge Juhani Paiho that a cleaner a...



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