Liberia
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 08:54:12 GMTSen. Henrique Tokpah Says Lawmakers Need More Than U.S.$15k to Address "Heavy Burdens Confronting Their People"
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- Bong County Senator Henrique Tokpa has justified the bold recipient of the US$15,000 provided by the Government of Liberia (GOL) to members of the 54th National Legislature in the midst of extreme hardship and difficulti...
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 08:54:09 GMTFOHRD Releases National Human Rights Situation Report
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The Foundation for Human Rights Defense International (FOHRD) on June 2, 2021, launched its first National Human Rights Report. According to FOHRD, that was the beginning of a journey intended for the advancement of Libe...
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 08:49:24 GMTAtty. Tonieh Tarley Wiles Leads WANEP-Liberia National Coordinator
[New Republic] The West Africa Network for Peacebuilding in Liberia (WANEP-Liberia) has endorsed Atty. Tonieh Tarley as the institution's new National Coordinator.
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 08:07:01 GMTNo Time to Play Politics With Covid-19 Pandemic
[FrontPageAfrica] Public health officials should manage this global COVID pandemic like medical professionals who care about the health of their citizens. This is no time to play politics with people's lives. Yes, people are reluctant about vaccinati...
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 08:06:58 GMTLying Senator, Lying Light - Americans to Rethink?
[FrontPageAfrica] The American Government does not take lightly foreign government officials who lie.
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 08:06:56 GMTLiberians in the United Kingdom Form Liberia-UK Covid-19 Taskforce
[FrontPageAfrica] Birmingham -- Liberians residing in the United Kingdom have once again united in response to the calls of their fellow compatriots as the scourge of the COVID-19 pandemic infects and takes more lives in their home country and the wo...
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 08:06:52 GMTLand Title Authorities Overwhelmed By Disputes Following Land Rights Act
[FrontPageAfrica] Gbonyea -- Emmanuel Tokpah always wanted a home of his own. The 27-year-old bike rider had saved enough money to begin construction on a house in this village. But his dreams were shattered in July 2016 when a group of men from neig...
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 08:06:49 GMTPresident Weah Submits Anti Money Laundering Bill to Legislature for Passage
[FrontPageAfrica] Capitol Hill -- Liberia's Chief Executive, President George Weah on Tuesday submitted before the Legislature for enactment into law an anti-money laundering bill.
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 07:59:17 GMTWomen Group, Partners Empower Over 30 Women
[New Republic] The Organization for Women and Children in partnership with Oxfam Liberia is implementing the European Union Enough Project that seeks to empower survivors and at-risk women of sexual gender-based violence (SGBV).
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 09:48:18 GMTLiberia, Morocco Lead Africa Regional Dialogue - Prepare Africa for UN Food Systems Summit 2021
[FrontPageAfrica] Agadir -- Liberian Foreign Affairs Minister Ambassador Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah, Sr., and Representative of the African Group to the Advisory Board of the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit and Ambassador Omar Hilale, Permanent Representat...
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 09:48:14 GMTTRANSCO CLSG Powers Transmission Lines to Liberia - Set to Commission Sub-Stations
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The 225kv transmission line from Man in Cote d'Ivoire into Monrovia has been constructed and energized, the General Manager of TRANSCO CLSG, Mohammed Mulibah Sherif has disclosed. He added that three out of five substati...
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 09:18:30 GMTAccountability Lab Liberia Launches National Youth Sustainable Peace Policy Framework
[New Republic] Accountability Lab Liberia (AL Liberia) with funding from UNDPhas launched the project, "Promoting Sustainable Peace through National Youth Policy in the Framework of the 2030 Agenda project".
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 08:48:19 GMTEx-Rebel Grabbed for Stealing
[New Republic] Ex-ULIMO-J Rebel Ophoree Diah has been hooked in another legal crisis after nearly six years of conviction in the mercenary case that took a center stage at the Temple of Justice in Monrovia.
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 08:48:16 GMTLiberia, Morocco Lead Africa Regional Dialogue
[New Republic] Liberian Foreign Affairs Minister Ambassador Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah, Sr., and Representative of the African Group to the Advisory Board of the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit and Ambassador Omar Hilale, Permanent Representative of Morocc...
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 08:48:13 GMT'I Will Not Lie Again'... .says Sen. Dillon
[New Republic] Montserrado Senator, Abraham Darius Dillon has apologized for publicly lying about his first class ticket issue to the United States of America (USA).
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 08:54:19 GMTPartners Call for Adequate Budgetary Allocations
[New Dawn] for County Service Centers
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 08:47:30 GMTA Human-Rights Approach to Global Challenges
[New Dawn] The COVID-19 pandemic has recast the world for millions of people. Or, more correctly, the pandemic has exposed and aggravated deep inequalities of race, gender, and class across societies, and highlighted the inability of many political s...
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 08:47:28 GMTNEC Chairman On Speaking Engagement in Nigeria
[New Dawn] The National Elections Commission or NEC Chairperson is expected to arrive Wednesday in Uyo, Akwa-Ibom State, in Nigeria at the invitation of the Pan African Women Projects of South Africa to serve as a guest speaker to the South-South Sen...
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 08:47:27 GMTCourt Grants Bility Permanent Custody of Children
[New Dawn] The Civil Law Court "A" in Monrovia has granted Mr. Sidike Musa Bility permanent custody of his two minor kids, but with the proviso that they will spend the first and third weekends of every month and all holidays with their mother, Warti...
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 08:47:25 GMTBotswana Police Use Israeli Cellebrite Tech to Search Another Journalist's Phone
[New Dawn] Tsaone Basimanebotlhe was not expecting security agents to appear at her home in a village outside Gaborone, Botswana's capital, in July 2019, she told CPJ in a recent interview. But they didn't come to arrest or charge her, she recalled -...
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 08:47:23 GMTKemayah, Others Host Africa Regional Dialogue
[New Dawn] Liberian Foreign Affairs Minister Ambassador Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah, Sr., has joined a host of other officials to co-organize an Africa Regional Dialogue in the city of Agadir, Morocco to discuss issues affecting agriculture sector of th...
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 08:47:20 GMTLiberia's Truth and Reconciliation Palava Hut Hearings Take Off in Rivercess County
[New Dawn] Liberia this week began another round of Palava Hut hearings in Central C District, Rivercess County, where over 30 mass graves were documented. The Palava hut hearing is one of the 142 recommendations of the country's Truth and Reconcilia...
Thu, 15 Jul 2021 08:17:48 GMTAfDB, Partners, Renew Commitment to End Child Stunting in Africa
[New Dawn] Urging unity and action to accelerate nutrition targets amid the global Covid-19 pandemic, representatives of the African Development Bank, the Aliko Dangote Foundation and Big Win Philanthropy renewed their commitment to end child stuntin...
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 08:03:41 GMTJapan's Quiet Olympics
[New Dawn] TOKYO - On July 8, the Japanese government declared a state of emergency in Tokyo until August 22, owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. That means the Tokyo Olympic Games (July 23-August 8) will be subject to strict limits on spectators for lar...
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 08:03:39 GMTLiberia's Truth and Reconciliation Palava Hut Hearings Take Off in Rivercess County
[New Dawn] Liberia this week began another round of Palava Hut hearings in Central C District, Rivercess County, where over 30 mass graves were documented. The Palava hut hearing is one of the 142 recommendations of the country's Truth and Reconcilia...
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 08:03:37 GMTNEC Chairman On Speaking Engagement in Nigeria
[New Dawn] The National Elections Commission or NEC Chairperson is expected to arrive Wednesday in Uyo, Akwa-Ibom State, in Nigeria at the invitation of the Pan African Women Projects of South Africa to serve as a guest speaker to the South-South Sen...
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 08:03:36 GMTEllen Bemoans UK Aid Cuts
[New Dawn] Then gets troll on twitter
Wed, 14 Jul 2021 14:23:59 GMTHSI Celebrates World Chimpanzee Day
[New Dawn] pays tribute to fallen staff
Wed, 14 Jul 2021 14:23:50 GMTKoijee's Call for Journalists' Financial Support Anger Reporters
[New Dawn] A media pressure group, Voice of Reporters (VOR) has sharply reacted to Monrovia City Mayor Jefferson T. Koijee's recent statement calling on members of the Liberian media to rally financial support to the government's fight against Corona...
Wed, 14 Jul 2021 14:23:38 GMTSenate Cites NEC, Others
[New Dawn] for bio-metric voter registration talks