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Tue, 23 Feb 2021 11:29:58 GMT
Massaquoi Trial - Finnish Court Goes to Deepest Liberia
[JusticeInfo.net] Arriving in Liberia on February 15, Finnish judges, prosecutors, and lawyers spent their first week visiting sites where Gibril Massaquoi, a former rebel commander from Sierra Leone, allegedly committed crimes against humanity. They...

Wed, 24 Feb 2021 08:09:29 GMT
Electoral District # 16 Development Council Chairman Reacts to CDC Representative Dixon Seeboe's Claims of Mismanaging Project Fund
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The Chairman of the District Development Council (DDC) in electoral district # 16, Montserrado County, Reverend Alonso Jet Duncan, has termed as an "unfounded rubbish and lies" claims made by Representative Dixon W. Seeb...

Wed, 24 Feb 2021 08:09:27 GMT
War Crimes Court Economics - Who Will Pay and Will It Boost Liberia's Struggling Economy?
[FrontPageAfrica] Freetown -- Patrick Fatoma spends his days guiding guests around the fading halls of the Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone. It's a job he has held for nearly a decade since the official close of Special Court for Sierra Leone ...

Wed, 24 Feb 2021 08:09:24 GMT
UN, EU, GOL Collaborate to Provide Stable Shelter for Ivorian Refugees in Liberia
[FrontPageAfrica] Bahn -- It was moments of joy and celebration in Bahn, Nimba County and Zwedru, Grand County when hundreds of Ivorian refugees and Liberians trooped in their numbers to give a rousing welcome to President George Weah during the offi...

Wed, 24 Feb 2021 08:09:22 GMT
MNG Gold Commits to Liberia's Development Agenda, Set to Complete Modern Health Facility and Senior High School in Kokoyah District
[FrontPageAfrica] Kokoyah -- The management of MNG Gold has affirmed its commitment to contributing to the development drive of Liberia, promising to continue working with local communities affected by its mining operations in Kokoyah, Bong County.

Wed, 24 Feb 2021 08:09:20 GMT
'Success Requires Committed Service' - University of Liberia 101st Keynote Speaker Cautioned Graduates
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- Liberia's premier tertiary academic institution of learning, the University of Liberia (UL), has commenced its 101st graduation exercises for the academic year 2019/2020, graduating the first batch of 697 candidates from...

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 09:50:52 GMT
EPA in Collaboration With Conservation International End Two Days IPPC Software Workshop On Greenhouse Gas Emission
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in collaboration with the Conservation International concluded two days energy training workshop on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Data collection inventory...

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 09:50:49 GMT
A Call for National Unity and Hard Work
[FrontPageAfrica] The Coalition for Democratic Change administration is not the only national leadership in today's world to face up hill battle in her national existence but the recognition of its share of responsibility of the current condition in ...

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 09:50:48 GMT
USAID to Provide 2 Billion to Propel Global Access to Covid-19 Vaccines
[FrontPageAfrica] Washington -- U.S. President Joe Biden has announced that the United States intends to provide an initial $2 billion, out of a total planned $4 billion, to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, to support the Gavi COVAX Advance Market Commitm...

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 09:50:46 GMT
Edwin Snowe Certificated As Winner of Bomi County Senator
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- Representative Edwin Melvin Snowe has assured the people of Bomi County that as he enters the Senate, he is going to be an advocate for them. The electorates of Bomi overwhelmingly voted for him.

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 09:50:44 GMT
ANC Political Leader Terms His Party As 'Right Constituent Party of the CPP'
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- Mr. Alexander Benedict Cummings, Political Leader of the Alternative National Congress (ANC), a political party within the Collaborating Political Parties (CPP), has termed his party as the best among the four collaborat...

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 09:50:33 GMT
Will Africa Ever Get the Covid Vaccine?
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- With a reported death toll of more than one hundred thousand and more than three million reported cases, the African continent appears to be at the bottom of the pile of countries likely to receive vaccines for the deadl...

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 09:50:28 GMT
The Current LACC Lacks the Legitimacy to Fight Corruption - - It Must Be Reconstituted!
[FrontPageAfrica] On February 15, the Executive Director of the Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC) accused the Vice Chairman of the LACC board of violating the Constitution of Liberia, the national code of conduct and the LACC internal code of...

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 08:34:03 GMT
UL Commences 101st Commencement
[New Dawn] The University of Liberia (UL) has commenced its 101st graduation exercises for the academic year 2019/2020, graduating the first batch of 697 candidates from three colleges at the Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports Complex in Paynesville.

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 08:34:01 GMT
NEC Certificates Snowe
[New Dawn] -Gets notification for vacancy in G. Gedeh

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 08:33:58 GMT
UL Alumni Urged to Be Goodwill Ambassadors
[New Dawn] Panelists at the 100th Homecoming Day of the Alumni Association of the University of Liberia (AAUL) have called on members of the association to serve as goodwill ambassadors of the nation's premier tertiary academic institution and make t...

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 08:33:44 GMT
Construction Progresses At Burnt Islamic School in Paynesville
[New Dawn] Mamadou Kanana Bah, Operations Manager of Ndalao Construction International Inc., a firm that is constructing a modern school and mosque in Bassa Town, Paynesville exactly where dozens of Islamic school students died in a fire incident in ...

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 08:33:41 GMT
Educators Meet in Maryland County
[New Dawn] Amidst protest by students of the William V.S. Tubman University in Harper, Maryland County, Deputy Minister for Education Felecia Doe Somah has ended a one-day consultative meeting with local education officers in the county.

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 08:33:38 GMT
Africa Rice Gets Bundles of Praises At NAF
[New Dawn] -UN, UNDP others pleased with work at the center

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 08:33:35 GMT
Tolerate All Political Actors
[New Dawn] -Weah tells Grand Gedeans

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 08:33:33 GMT
LEITI Names New Head and Deputy
[New Dawn] The Liberia Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (LEITI) now has a new Head and Deputy Head of Secretariat. The Multi-Stakeholder Steering Group of the LEITI on February 20, 2021, disclosed the hiring of Jeffrey N. Yates, Head of ...

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 08:33:28 GMT
No Room for Corrupt Individuals
[New Dawn] -Wilmot Paye

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 08:15:31 GMT
The United National Security Council's Structural Dysfunctionality - the Police That Has Become Unpoliceable
[FrontPageAfrica] As the global order developed over time, it became almost predictable that nations were putting in place a system that could ensure world peace. World leaders were aware that lasting peace was only possible if all humans enjoyed equ...

Mon, 22 Feb 2021 11:24:25 GMT
In Swiss Trial, Liberian Victims Tell Chilling Tales of Alieu Kosiah
[JusticeInfo.net] The trial of Alieu Kosiah, accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity, resumed on February 15 in Switzerland. Six of the seven plaintiffs took the stand to give chilling accounts of crimes they say were committed by the forme...

Mon, 22 Feb 2021 13:45:24 GMT
Lisgis to Organize 16 Days Training for Field Mapping Assistants and Cartographers for the Upcoming Population and Housing
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The Government of Liberia through the Liberian Institute of Statistics and Geo-Information Services (LISGIS) on February 22 will commence a 16-day training for Field Mapping Assistants and Cartographers.

Mon, 22 Feb 2021 13:45:18 GMT
Kosiah Killed Teenage Boy On 'Black Monday,' Judges Hear
[FrontPageAfrica] Bellinzona -- War crimes suspect Alieu Kosiah shot and killed a teenage boy in Voinjama in 1994, a man claiming to have witnessed the incident, told the Swiss Federal Criminal Court on Saturday.

Mon, 22 Feb 2021 13:45:13 GMT
Solicitor General Instructs the NEC to Nullify Brownie Samukai's Victory
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- Solicitor General Syrenius Cephus has written the Chairperson of the National Elections Commission (NEC) instructing her not to certificate Lofa County Senator-elect J. Brownie Samukai whose conviction by the lower court...

Mon, 22 Feb 2021 13:45:03 GMT
The Constitution Takes a Vacation
[FrontPageAfrica] WEEKS AFTER THE DECEMBER Midterm Senatorial and Representative elections in Liberia, several elected Senators are yet to take their seats amid numerous complaints and legal wrangles now entangled in the Supreme Court of Liberia.

Mon, 22 Feb 2021 13:44:58 GMT
Supreme Court Confirms Edwin Snowe's Victory in Bomi County Senatorial Election
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The Supreme Court of Liberia on Friday affirmed the ruling of the National Elections Commission that declared Representative Edwin Melvin Snowe winner of the December 8, 2020 senatorial elections in Bomi County.

Mon, 22 Feb 2021 13:44:52 GMT
First Responders App 'My Watchman' Launched to Curb Crime, Offer Emergency Services in Liberia
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- A new mobile app with 24 hours secured monitoring and emergency dispatch command center has been launched to help curb crime and offer other emergency services. The platform aims to give people that opportunity whenever ...



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