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Piracy in West Africa outstrips Somalia report says
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A new report says piracy affected more ships and sailors off West Africa than off Somalia's coast last year.The report, drawing on data from the International Maritime Bureau, said nearly 1,000 seafarers and fishermen were attacked by pirates armed with guns or knives in the Gulf of Guinea. More than 200 people were taken hostage.The report said attacks on ...
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West Africa has worlds worst piracy rate report
A ship of the Nigerian navy, taking part in a counter-piracy patrol on September 28, 2011. Wast Africa has overtaken Somalia as the world's piracy hot-spot with 966 sailors attacked last year, a report by the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) said on ...
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LIBERIA Opposition Party CDC Threatens To Expel ‘You Eat I Eat Minister Eat’ Lawmaker
Executive Committee members of the opposition Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) of Football Legend, George Oppong Weah has resolved 'with immediate effect' to expel one of their lawmakers in the House of Representative for his alleged involvement in massive corruption between him and former Montserrado County Superintendent, Grace-Tee Kpaan. A committee established by the party ...
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LIBERIA Wash Media Reports Claim Senate’s Attention
Robust Media reports on the issue of poor sanitation in Monrovia and its environs by the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Reporters & Editors Network of Liberia (WASH R&E) have claimed the attention of the Liberian ...
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LIBERIA Sirleaf Salutes Queen Elizabeth’s 87th Birthday
The President of the Republic of Liberia, Her Excellency Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has congratulated Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, II, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on the occasion marking her 87th Birth Anniversary. President Sirleaf, in her congratulatory message to Queen Elizabeth remarked with deep admiration the Queen's dedication of service to the ...
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President Sirleaf Pleased With Ongoing Development Projects in Bomi County - Expected to Visit Bopolu and Cape Mount Next
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says she's impressed with ongoing development projects expected to be dedicated in Bomi County as part of this year's independence celebration. Bomi is co-hosting, along with neighboring Grand Cape Mount and Gbarpolu Counties, the nation's 166th Independence Anniversary celebration, in continuation of the President's Decentralization Policy. ...
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Liberia No Evidence to Prosecute 19 Grand Gedians - Say Defense Lawyers
The lawyers representing 19 Grand Gedians currently under trial for different crimes ranging from rape, murder, mercenarism, theft of property and arson, has filed a motion before Criminal Court "D" at the Temple of Justice to dismiss the trial against their clients. The Temple of Justice is situated on Capitol Hill, Monrovia. It can be recalled that sometimes ago, the Government of ...
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UBA Three Other Banks Raise U.S. $25 Million Medium Term Loan for Lone Star Communications Corporation
United Bank for Africa Liberia Limited and UBA Plc together with 3 other banks, syndicated a Medium Term Loan Deal of USD$25 Million for Lone Star Communications Corporation aka Lonestar cell MTN . The 3 other banks are Ecobank Liberia Limited, Liberia Bank for Development & Investment and Guaranty Trust Bank Liberia Limited. The signing ceremony of the Finance Document for the US$25 ...
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President Sirleaf Holds Meetings in London Ahead of Tuesdays G8 Luncheon
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is in London, ahead of this year's G8 Summit of world leaders convening in Lough Erne, Northern Ireland. She arrived here Sunday afternoon following a stopover in Freetown, Sierra Leone. President Sirleaf is among four African leaders invited to participate in this year's Summit. The others: are the Chairman of the African Union, Ethiopian Prime ...
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Hurting Our Craft - Pot Boiling Crew Takes Comuim GSM Company to Court
The spokesman of the pot boiling record, Charles Phillip Taylor, III, AKA Bentman says the six Liberian Hipco Artists: Jonathan Koffa, AKA Takun J, Harry S. Tumu, AKA Xpoly, Archie Chail Romeo Lee, Jake N. Nyenpan, AKA JD Donzo, Buckay C. Bantoe, AKA Lucky Bucky and himself, who were the producers of one of Liberia's biggest hit, the Pot Boiling Remix, have agreed to take the COMUIM GSM ...
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Day in Court - 19 Accused Grand Gedeans Appear On Multiple Criminal Charges
A total of 19 Grand Gedeans who have been charged with mercenarism, rape, arson, murder and theft of property in connection with the cross border attack along the Liberia-Ivorian border in Southeastern Liberia have made their first court appearance following their indictment in November 2012. Among the defendants who appeared in court amidst heavy security escort on Monday were the Liberians ...
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Acting Public Works Minister Inspects Kakata-Bong Mines Road Project
Acting Public Works Minister Victor B. Smith says quality public infrastructure irrespective of their location and size is a major factor in the socio-economic transformation of Liberia. According to Minister Smith, creating year round accessibility across Liberia while incrementally transforming all laterite roads into asphalt paved roads remains a major preoccupation of the Ministry of Public ...
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Star On the Rise - Liberia Tennis Prodigy Set to Train At Elite Center in America
Twelve-year-old Alfred Saah Kandakai leaves Monrovia on June 28 to attend the Academia Sanchez-Casal in Florida, America for a three-week intensive training, sponsored by the Oceano Casino located at the Mamba Point Hotel and the Mamba Point Hotel family in Monrovia. After training, Saah will participate in the United States Tennis Association (USTA) tournament to test his budding "good ...
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Rep. Adolph Lawrence Awards Scholarships
Montserrado County Electoral District #15 Representative Adolph A. Lawrence has offered four scholarships to the Greater Vision High school in Duala, Bushrod Island for deserving students. Rep. Lawrence told reporters that the scholarships were in fulfillment of promise made to the institution. The District #15 lawmaker made the disclosure when he addressed members of the Greater Vision Alumni ...
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Some Fathers Are Mean to Their Children
A prelate of the Monrovia Open Bible Standard Church (MOBSC) Bishop Charles Z. Barwon said a godly father must be industrial, merciful and wise. According to Bishop Barwon, a godly father should have compassion for his children, and must also be genial in handling matters with them, noting "Some fathers are mean to their children." The Bishop made these assertions at the 23rd Father ...
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Weah Gets U.S. $150000 for Reconciliation
Reports reaching this paper says that the Ambassador George Weah Peace and Reconciliation Commission has received over US$150,000 from the Government of Liberia to conduct a three-day sporting festival expected to commence this Thursday in Monrovia. When both Presidential Secretary Jerelimick Piah, and Assistant Information Minister Albert Jayjay were contacted about the information, they ...
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Decentralization - Political Economic Administrative Power in Liberia
This essay is the expression, with emphasis, of the urgent need to De-Centralize the political, economic and administrative power, rigidly centralized in, tightly controlled by and meticulously dispensed from far-away, Republic of Monrovia. There is a need, I have always been convinced of, felt and articulated for Change, Reform - fundamental, comprehensive transformation of our socio-economic ...
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West Africa piracy surge endangering commodities shipping
Gulf of Guinea have almost doubled from last year and threaten to increase the costs and jeopardise the shipping of commodities from the region. The Gulf of Guinea, which includes Nigeria, Ghana and Ivory Coast, is a major source of oil and cocoa and increasingly metals for world markets, although international navies are not actively engaged in counter-piracy missions in the region. Unlike ...
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Stink City - Garbage Pileup Overwhelming Gbarnga Residents Slam Leadership
Heaps of garbage are stockpiling in Gbarnga, Bong County's capital city, with serious health implications for residents of the People street community. From the Gbarnga central market to Frank Joe Community, equally dirty areas; Far East Community to Lelekpayea; and from Barworlor quarter along the Millionaire quarter road, wastes are dumped anywhere in sight. The worst garbage shame of ...
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Liberia G8 Summit - What Are the Good Tidings
Liberia is among African countries invited to attend this year's G8 Summit, which gets underway today at the Lough Erne Golf Resort in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, under the theme "Taxes, Trade and Transparency." President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is one of three African presidents invited and is to speak on transparency and trade. Others include the Chairman of the African Union, ...
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Golden Image Award 2013 Launched in Tubmanburg
Tubmanburg, the provincial capital city of Bomi County Saturday, June 15, 2013 witnessed the extraordinary launch of the 3rd edition of the Golden Image Award (GIA) in an atmosphere of glamour, elegance, excellence and approbation, symptomatic of the resounding celebration of the pending national independence celebration. The inaugural and ground-breaking edition of the GIA, which is on the ...
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Gbowee Foundation Highlights Girls Scholarship
The Gbowee Peace Foundation-Africa has highlighted activities and the overall work that are ongoing nationally, regionally as well as internationally by the foundation. Founder Leymah R. Gbowee said the areas of focus are on African girls' leadership initiative with current successes with the local and international Gbowee scholars. She addressed a news conference at the weekend at her ...
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Belle Yella Town Finally Connected - As Convoy Crosses Over Tuma River Bridge
Vehicles have for the first time entered the old prison town of Belle Yella since December 2009 when President Ellen Johnson defied the thick jungles to drive into the town, with yellow machines gnawing forest trees to make way. After the President's convoy returned hours later, rivers washed away temporary bridges, and the people there had never seen vehicles entering the town until a ...
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Independent Information Commissioner Hears First FOI Hearing in Liberia
The Liberian Freedom of Information Commissioner Mark Bedor Wla Freeman has held the first hearing of request denial redress filed by the Center for Media Studies and Peacebuilding, (CEMESP) against the Liberia Anti- Corruption Commission, LACC. The hearing took place on June 13, 2013 at the offices of the Commission in Monrovia. This matter had to be reverted to the Independent Information ...
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Internal Affairs Minister Proposes Green Tourism - to Protect Liberias Rainforest
Highlighting global warming and climate change as real challenges and threats resulting from undue human and industrial misuse and abuse of the ever diminishing forest resource, Minister of Internal Affairs Morris Dukuly has proposed a national program to protect the forests of Liberia. Minister Dukuly said a comprehensive re-reforestation program that is in response to global climate change is ...
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Liberia gaining the world's attention for the right reasons
When members of the international community, and even many Africans themselves, think of Africa one of a few stereotypes come to mind; poverty, crime, corruption and political instability. Africa is seen as a haven for everything nefarious in the global community, terrorists are trained here, rebels attack their governments, drugs are grown in, and exported from, African soil and many African heads of state preside over a government whose authority does not extend beyond their capital city.
Liberia, not often in the international news for doing well, seems to be making a concerted effort to redress this trend, suggesting that a period of integrity may be ahead for the continent as a whole; South Africa is hosting the FIFA World Cup, Egypt is cooperating with the international community in opening up its border with Gaza and Liberia’s government is holding its own as an example of the far-reaching effects of good governance and rooting out corruption. Read more
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