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Liberia The Changing Face of Land Disputes
Monrovia - The Liberia Land Commission, which was set up in 2009 to help settle land disputes between returning refugees and their neighbours, is making significant headway, say land experts, but non-conflict related land disputes are increasing, most of them as a result of weak land laws. Tens of thousands of Liberians were displaced during the 1999-2003 civil war. Many returned to their ...
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Recalling a Great Life Reactions Pouring in for Late Archbishop Michael Francis
- The death of Roman Catholic Archbishop Michael Francis at 77 is drawing reactions from all quarters with many at home and abroad recalling the late clergyman's fight against injustice. Archbishop Francis had been ill since 2004 after suffering a stroke. The Most Reverend Lewis Zeigler, Archbishop of Monrovia, who succeeded Francis, said the late archbishop stood for justice because he ...
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High Sodomy in Nimba Cells
Reports from Nimba County speak of increased practice of sodomy among inmates in prison. Reports further detailed that inmates are being pressurized to give themselves to be sodomized by fellow prisoners who have overstayed in cells. Like in other parts of the country, prisons in Nimba County are all over crowded; a situation that many believe is responsible for the practice among male inmates. ...
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Land Validation Confab Kicks-Off in Monrovia
A two-day National Validation Conference on land rights policy has begun in Monrovia with delegates coming from the 15counties of Liberia. Dubbed: "Know Your Land Rights", the conference, which began on Monday, May 20th, is expected to present a final Land Rights Policy to President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf today, Tuesday.Addressing delegates, Cecil T. O. Brandy, Chairman of the Land ...
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NEC Boss Tours Elections Magisterial Areas
The Chairman of National Elections Commission (NEC) Cllr. Jerome Korkoya kicks off a nationwide tour Saturday, May 18, 2013 to appraise the activities and status of the 19 NEC magisterial offices spread across the country. Phase one of Chairman's nationwide familiarization tour will start with a trip to Margibi, Bong, Nimba, Grand Gedeh, Sinoe, River Gee and Maryland counties ...
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President Ellen Sirleaf and Liberias Comeback
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, center, and Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, left, meet with Chief of Police Marc Armblah at the police academy in Monrovia, Liberia Thursday, Aug. 13, ...
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Liberian-American Shot Dead in Trenton
A 21-year old Liberian-American was Thursday evening, April 11, 2013 shot dead while sitting in his car in Trenton, New Jersey by unknown gunman or ...
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Our Imperative for Coexistence Countering Looming Distrust and Tensions
These are not surprising since we are just emerging from a prolonged civil war that crystallized our divisions along ethnic lines in particular. We have now normalized difference, denigration of difference, disagreements, anger, and conflicts in our way of life. The tension from unspoken hurt that people feel is still latent. Tremendous energy is being spent holding onto wounds from the past. ...
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LIBERIA Swedish Govt Provides US$2M To Liberia
The Swedish Government through the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) has provided US$ 2 million for youth employment in Liberia for the next two years. Speaking at the launch of SIDA PROSPECTS Program in Monrovia over the weekend the head of Development Cooperation at the Swedish Embassy Madam Gisela Strand said the Swedish Government will work along with the Government ...
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Ban Ki-moon and Jim Yong Kim to Make Historic Joint Visit to Africa’s Great Lakes Region May 22-24
WASHINGTON, May 20, 2013 - World Bank Group President Dr. Jim Yong Kim and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will make an historic joint visit to Africa's Great Lakes region from May 22nd - 24th in support of a recent landmark peace agreement and to push for economic development in one of the world's most troubled regions. Kim and Mr. Ban will travel to the Democratic ...
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The changing face of land disputes in Liberia
Harris Morris, from Johnsonville Liberia, points to his land plot that he claims was sold to someone else MONROVIA, 20 May 2013 (IRIN) - The Liberia Land Commission, which was set up in 2009 to help settle land disputes between returning refugees and their neighbours, is making significant headway, say land experts, but non-conflict related land disputes are increasing, most of them as a result ...
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Benin–Nigeria Power Interconnection Project Sharing Energy in West Africa
The Electricity Authority of Benin-Nigerian Electric Power Authority power interconnection project, jointly financed by the African Development Bank, the West African Development Bank, and the Economic Community of West African States, is one of the sparkling flagship projects for regional integration and cooperation in West Africa. Financed under the West Africa Power Pool program, the project ...
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Liberia Bishop Francis Dies
Archbishop Michael Kpakala Francis, the outspoken cleric who became the conscience of the society during the tyranical regime of late President Samuel Doe and the tumultous years of the civil war, died at his 8th Street residence yesterday following a protracted illness, aged 77. The shocking news of Bishop Francis' death, who was regarded as indifatigable fighter for peace and justice in ...
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Liberia Give Jobs to Liberians - Pro-Tempore Urges Concessionaires
Concession companies and other foreign investments in the country have been urged to use the expertise of Liberians in carrying out their duties. At the Grand Royal Hotel where he delivered a statement at the official unveiling ceremony of the partnership between the ROSNA Service Inc. and ANSAMBLE, two local and international catering companies, Sen. Gbezohngar M. Findley, Senate President ...
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UNMIL Dedicates U.S.$30000 Youth Center
The United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) has dedicated a youth center in Brewerville City, Montserrado County valued US$30,000. The center is intended for youths in the area to have access to skills training and other educative programs. Speaking at the dedication of the facility, UNMIL Chief of Staff Van Roosen said the Mission is delighted in seeing youths of Brewerville having such ...
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Pres. Sirleaf Congratulates Norway
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has sent a message of congratulations to the Government and People of the Kingdom of Norway on the joyous occasion commemorating the Constitution Day of that country. Norway on Friday May 17, 2013 celebrated its Constitution Day which reflects its National Pride. President Silreaf in a message to His Majesty King Herald, V, the Government and people of the ...
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Postmaster General Calls for Robust ICT Sector
Posts and Telecommunications Minister Dr. Frederick Norkeh, has stressed the need for every Liberian to pay a role in ensuring that the use of Information Communication Technology or ICT does not endanger road safety. He called on policymakers to ensure that Information Communication Technology facilitates the realization of Liberia's goal instead of undermining it. Speaking at a joint ...
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Secrecy In Oil Gas And Mining
The lives of over a billion citizens could be transformed if their governments managed their oil, gas and minerals in a more open, accountable manner, according to the Resource Governance Index released Friday by the Revenue Watch ...
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CSO Wants Inclusion In Natural Resource Management
the Government of Liberia provides a conducive space for broad based non-state actors' participation in the country's natural resource ...
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Audit Begins At Transport Ministry
Transport Minister Tornola Varpilah Friday announced an audit of the Ministry of Transport at a press conference in Monrovia in which he outlined his vision for the Ministry and updated the media on the status of the bidding process for the selection of a suitable vendor to manage and produce license ...
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Liberia Well Resist - CDC Declares
The Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) has threatened to resist in any manner to stop the Government of Liberia from embarking on any process of exploiting the Mount Wologizi in Lofa County. CDC Vice Chairman for Operations, Mulbah Morlu said the party will not sit supinely to allow the government mortgage every natural resource of Liberia under the false banner of wanting to develop the ...
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Youth Group Stresses Unity
A youth group, the Coalition of Youth & Students to Enhance Peace and Democracy in Liberia has admonished Liberians to be their "brother's keeper" instead of community destroyer, making specific reference to a speech delivered by National Unification Day Orator T. Nelson Williams on May 14, 2013. In a statement issued in Monrovia on May 17, 2013, the group's Executive ...
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Liberia Open Budget Extends to Rural Liberia
The Open Budget Initiatives (OBI) launched by the Ministry of Finance is being taken to rural Liberia to educate citizens on government's financial programs. The Open Budget Initiative, launched by President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf early this year, is intended to explain to average Liberians the expenditure of the national budget. The OBI team over the week visited students of Harbel, ...
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LP Endorses Power-Couple Politics
The Liberty Party says it sees its victory in the just-ended Grand Bassa County by-election as indicative of its preparedness to take state leadership after the Sirleaf-led Government. The party admonished its partisans and supporters to "tighten their belts" in supporting the party with their dimes and nickels as strategy to capture senatorial seats in 2014 and the presidency in 2017 ...
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Assassination Try or Foiled Rescue Suspect Held in Hans Williams Case
FrontPageAfrica has learnt of an aborted prison break involving a long-time detainee of the Monrovia Central Prison, Mr. Hans Williams. Multiple sources at the Monrovia Central Prison confirmed to FPA Sunday that a man believed to be middle-aged tried to find an escape passage along with Williams. While trying to leave the premises of the prison, the pair was spotted by security guards who ...
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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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