United Nations Deputy Secretary-General visits Liberia Wednesday
The United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed, will arrive in Monrovia, Liberia on Wednesday 21 March. On Thursday, 22 March, she will participate in an...
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Global Witness takes Pres Weah to task over LEITI appointment
The controversy over President George Weah’s recent appointment of the Head of Secretariat of the Liberia Extractive Initiative Transparency Initiative (LEITI) has sparked international criticisms....
UN to continue supporting Liberia’s Recovery Programs
– says Deputy Secretary General By William Selmah wselmah@gmail.com The United Nations has reaffirmed its commitment to future peace building and development programs for Liberia. The...
Journalists covering protests in US risk being caught up in police kettling tactic
By Stephanie Sugars / CPJ North America Program Intern On September 17 last year, St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Mike Faulk was covering protests over the acquittal...
China-Liberia Sign new Bilateral Agreements
-To Affect SKD, LBS and National Clinical Reference Laboratory The People’s Republic of China, through its Embassy near Monrovia, has agreed to provide more bilateral...
IPU: 2017 saw no change in overall average of women in parliaments
The year 2017 saw some positive developments in women’s participation in elections, according to a new report released at the weekend by Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)...
Cease Support For Bridge International Academies: 88 groups urge investors
In an open letter published March 1, 2018, 88 civil society organisations have urged investors to cease their support for the multinational for-profit chain of...
Japan promises to strengthen relations with Liberia
-Pledges commitment to work with Weah gov’t The Japanese Ambassador to Liberia Tsutomu Himeno, Ambassado has pledged his government’s commitment to deepen cooperation with Liberia...
Billy Graham, evangelist pastor and counselor to presidents, dead at age 99
SOURCE: NBC news By PHIL MCCAUSLAND and ELIZABETH CHUCK Billy Graham, the charismatic North Carolina pastor who took his evangelizing crusades around the country and the globe, died...
Human Rights Watch urges Pres Weah: prioritize Liberia war crimes trials
PHOTO: Courtesy of Journalist Gregory Stemn Since the end of the Liberian civil war that caused the deaths of some 250,000 people, there is yet...