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Media Center Conducts Seminar
The Liberia Media Center (LMC) has held a one-day seminar for peace club students in various universities and colleges across the country. Speaking at the Seminar Wednesday at the LM C offices, the Project Coordinator Richard Hoff said the training is a 24-month grant in which the European Union (EU) provided 80 percent and LMC 20 percent as part of the peace initiative to bring together ...
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Liberia Gunmen Target Local Oil Installation
Tripoli - An armed group on Monday (May 20th) struck the Mellitah oil and gas complex west of Tripoli, wounding at least two guards. According to a source at the facility, armed assailants from "outside the area" mounted their attack in the early morning. They were able to seize arms and some twenty vehicles before taking off, Libya Herald reproted. Colonel Juma Abdul Jalil, ...
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Kenya Liberian President Sirleaf makes stop-over in Nairobi
Nairobi and was received at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport by Cabinet Secretary for Devolution and Planning Ms. Ann Waiguru. Liberia's Honorory Consul in Kenya Mr. Kimani Benson Mathu was also in ...
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Kenya Cabinet Secretary meets Liberia President at Jomo Kenyatta Airport
The President was received by Devolution and Planning Cabinet Secretary Anne Waiguru. They held discussions at the Presidential Pavilion before the President and her entourage left the country for AddisAbaba the venue for the five-day AU meeting. The Liberia President was accompanied by Senior Officials in her Government including among others Hon. Lewis G. Brown, Liberian Information Minister ...
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Country Devil Fear Scares Teachers Students
Residents of the Gibi District in Margibi County are calling on the Government of Liberia, through the Ministries of Education and Internal Affairs, to aid them in over-coming traditional practices against formal education. Residents of Gibi District, which has over 10,000 residents, complained that during the regular instructional period, there are disruptions by country (traditional) devils. ...
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Land Inventory Project Begins in Gbarnga
The Land Commission has launched its Urban Land Inventory Project in Gbarnga, Bong County. The Project is intended to map up the city for proper records of the population, as well as the number of houses, among others. Giving an over view of the project, the Commissioner for Land Use and Management at the commission called on residents of the city of Gbarnga to cooperate with the ...
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Tobert Bemoans Lack of Medical Staff At LFA Game
Monrovia - The President of the Invincible Eleven (IE) Majestic Sports Association has described the lack of medical team and equipment at various Liberia Football Association (LFA) league matches as completely against the rules of the game. Mr. Richard Tolbert made the description Wednesday after one his team's defenders Benjamin Nyanforh sustained a serious injury to the head after he ...
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Ellen Resists Lost Generation Debate
President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has counter-argued the general perception here that the young people were "lost generation," rather saying they are "opportunity" generation. "People sometimes call our young people the "lost" generation; we think they are the "opportunity" generation," President Sirleaf said. Speaking at the ground-breaking ...
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U.S.$40000 Clinic for Bong County
The Ngwayah's family in Suakoko District, Bong County has announced the construction of a modern clinic in the town of Gbornokalansue. Speaking at the ground breaking ceremony, Suakoko District Commissioner Claude Saul described the project as a blessing from God, stressing that the importance of constructing a clinic in Gbornokalansue could not be over-emphasized because a lot of people ...
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Liberia Pledges Continued Partnership With APM Terminal New Wharf Dedicated
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has dedicated the new marginal wharf at the National Port Authority with a promise that government's partnership with the APM Terminal will continue. The APM Terminal is an American based company that signed a concession agreement with the Liberian Government to manage the pier of the National Port Authority for a period of 25 years. In the dedication of ...
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Tribute - Michael Francis the Icon Disciple of God and Man of Faith
About fifty years ago, a young handsome priest burst on to the scene at the Catholic Church on Ashmun Street and immediately became a star for us school children, boy scouts and hangers on. Sharp, funny, deeply intellectual and above all compassionate towards humanity, we would all latch on this young energetic man, who himself was still in his twenties. We never thought he would rise to be an ...
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Liberia National Police Flowers Adopted Child Targets Hope-Bred Chap for Force
The Liberia National Police (LNP) led by its Inspector General, Col. C. Clarence Massaquoi has honored a Liberian who was adopted by an American Adaption organization identified as Acres of Hope. Mr. Jacob Elder (Adopted Child) who is currently residing in the United States of America with his adopted parents and visiting his mother land (Liberia) was adopted in November 2003 in the heat of the ...
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Liberia Prince Johnson Accuses Sirleaf of Vote Rigging in 2011
Nimba County is said to be in a state of shock following a live radio confession by the county's Senior Senator Prince Y. Johnson (PYJ), detailing how he influenced elections officials in the county to cheat for his NUDP's candidates. He alleged that President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf to whom he pledged his support in the November 2011 presidential runoff, was also instrumental in ...
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Liberia Audits Verifications Without Prosecution a Waste of Liberias Taxpayers Money
THE LIBERIA ANTI-CORRUPTION Commission released its Verification report Tuesday in which it is purported that some officials of the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf-led government misrepresented the facts and lied in their declaration of assets. ONE OF THE MAJOR discoveries in the findings is that the managing director of the National Port Authority, Matilda Parker lied about the value of her assets and ...
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Liberia Defaults in Labor Law Decent Work Bill
Defects in both the current Labour Law and Draft Decent Work Bill 2010 have been discovered, with a call for action to bring Liberia in harmony with international standards and the practice on child labour. Attorney-At-Law Michael M. Allison, Managing Director of the BRICS Mano River Union Legal Consultants said there was disharmony between minimum age for education and work issue in Liberia. ...
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Liberia LTA Parliamentarians Make Suggestions to Improve Telecomunications Sector
The First Telecommunications Consumer Parliament organized by the Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA), has ended in the Central Liberian provincial City of Gbarnga, Bong County, following a one-day session, with parliamentarians proffering several recommendations to improve the telecommunications sector in Liberia. In a 16-count recommendations presented at the end of the parliamentary ...
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Liberia Foreign Technicians Expected for RIA
The Liberian Government has invited a technical delegation from Equatorial Guinea to Monrovia in early June after both governments agreed on May 21, 2013 to arrange the financing and construction of the Roberts International Airport (RIA) and social housing in Liberia. In a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed in Malibo between Liberia and Equatorial Guinea on 21 May, both governments ...
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Assets Declaration Fallout in Liberia - NPA MD Parker LACC Spar Over a Lie
Monrovia- The report issued by the Liberia Anti Corruption Commission (LACC) that some officials of the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf-led government misrepresented the facts and lied in their declaration of assets with the commission has hit high notes in Liberia. The LACC particularly noted that the managing director of the National Port Authority Matilda Parker lied about the value of her assets and ...
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Liberia President Sirleaf Departs Liberia for AU Summit in Ethiopia Ticad V in Japan and Forbes Philanthropy Event in the United States
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf departed the country on Wednesday, May 22, for intergovernmental engagements in Ethiopia and Japan, and a philanthropy event sponsored by Forbes Magazine, in the United States. According to an Executive Mansion release, President Sirleaf departed for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on the first leg of her trip, to attend the 21st Ordinary Session of the Summit of the ...
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CJL Holds Human Rights Conference on Liberia in Minnesota
WASHINGTON, D.C. April 2, 2013: The Coalition for Justice in Liberia (CJL), a U.S.-based human rights advocacy organization, in collaboration with other international human rights groups, will hold a series of conferences and trainings during the months of March and April, to highlight the state of human rights in Liberia. Under the theme ...
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Expecting More From Liberian Govt Global Witness Presses GOL to Act on Audits
The watchdog group Global Witness says while publication of a full audit of how Liberia awarded its resource concessions between 2009 and 2011 is a global first, the government must take a step further to act on those reports. ...
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Liberia Road to Peace Prosperity
Transcript of Interview with H.E. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf"Liberia: The Road to Peace & Prosperity"Moderated by Axel Threlfall, Lead Anchor of Thomson Reuters TelevisionHeld at the Ronald Reagan Building, Washington, D.C. Friday, May 17, 2013Mr. Threlfall: Ladies and Gentlemen, it's a great pleasure for me to be hosting this Newsmaker conversation with the President ...
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Adoptions of children decreased by 48 worldwide
More and more couples without children want to adopt, but on the other hand, there are fewer kids up for adoption. Previously, the lack of kids for adoption, in developed countries was compensated through the adoption abroad. Now this is more complex. The number of international adoptions has dropped by 48%. Before investigating the roots of this reduction, it is worthwhile to recall two ...
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Liberian Nobel Laureate Leymah Gbowee to Speak in Brooklyn Park Saturday April 27
BROOKLYN PARK, Minn: Nobel Peace Prize recipient Leymah Gbowee, an activist and social worker from Liberia, will offer a public talk on peace-building Sat., April 27, from 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Brooklyn Park (Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, 7217 West Broadway Ave, Brooklyn Park, MN 55428). She is in the Twin Cities as part of an annual two-day youth ...
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LIBERIA Indian Company Boast Of US$2Bn Wologizi Mountain Investment But There’s Unanswered Quest
As Liberia anxiously awaits the arrival of committed investors on its soil in order to enhance its human resource capacity by ably providing job opportunities to its citizens, other foreign companies are using this line to exploit the Country and its human resource development under dubious situations. Few years ago, a Australia owned Company, the Buchanan Renewables Energy (BRE) landed on the ...
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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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