Liberia: Ailing Police Officer Threatens Suicide in Pursuit of Justice
He (Superintendent) came and saw the man (suspect) condition and he saw the man sick and he said when the man dies, our job will be at risk. Inspector Clinton further disclosed that minutes later, he abandoned the police station and went to the court to meet Judge Doe. According to him, Judge Doe allegedly used profane languages against him and his parents for his decision taken to temporarily release the suspect on medical grounds. Doe, who has been summoned by authorities of the Ministry of Justice in Monrovia, is yet to officially respond to the allegations. Doe was appointed as Judge of the Monthly and Probate Court in Jaedae District by President Weah on July 9, 2018.
Source:Front Page Africa
August 11, 2022 15:38 UTC
Chaos Erupt in Neighboring Sierra Leone as Citizens Violently Protest against Rising Cost of Living
SIERRA LEONE – It was a day of unrest and violence in the Sierra Leonean Capital, Freetown on Wednesday when anti-government protesters clashed with police in the streets; leaving several people dead and wounded. Sierra Leone’s leadership announced a nationwide curfew on Wednesday in response to the violence it said had caused an unspecified number of deaths, including among the security forces. Earlier, internet observatory NetBlocks said Sierra Leone faced a near-total internet shutdown with national connectivity at 5 percent of ordinary levels. Long-standing frustration has also been exacerbated by rising prices for basic commodities in Sierra Leone, where more than half the population of around eight million lives below the poverty line, according to the World Bank. Meanwhile, the latest situation in Sierra Leone has left the Mano River Union (MRU) countries including Sierra Leone’s closest neighbors – Liberia and Guinea on the edge as citizens of these countries continue to grapple with high price of basic commodities such as petroleum and rice.
Source:Front Page Africa
August 11, 2022 10:18 UTC
LIWENE Makes Big Move in Empowering Women in Liberia and the Diaspora
This group dubbed Liberian Women Empowerment Network in Europe (LIWENE) came into existence as an offspring of the December 2019 « All Liberian Diaspora Conference». The conference resolution approved and supported by all major Liberian organizations in the diaspora, called for the Liberian Women in the diaspora to organize themselves under one umbrella for women empowerment and women development in general. LIWENE Chairperson, Emily E. Erskine announced in Geneva, Switzerland, on August 3, 2022, that in 2021, LIWENE founded a partner organization in Monrovia, the Liberian Women Empowerment Alliance (LIWENE Liberia), for the implementation of its projects. The organization’s programs on the ground in Liberia are operated through its regional affiliate, LIWENE Liberia, which has been officially registered in Monrovia. The full participation of young girls and boys in the school was a very positive sign supporting LIWENE to say no to early pregnancy.
Source:Front Page Africa
August 06, 2022 03:48 UTC
Liberia Returns to Coins Use in September
— CBL announcesThe Central Bank of Liberia (CBL), is expected to release the first batch of coins and other banknote denominations on the market in the middle of September. The coins are part of a total authorization of L$48.734 billion to be minted and printed in three years — 2021, 2022, and 2024. At various points in the country's history, coins were issued — starting in 1847 right after independence — and known as copper 1 and 2 cents coins which were used until 1862 and later went through modifications. They further revealed that the bank has done all it takes to bring the coins into the country by the end of September 2022. They, however, said that the issue with printing money in Liberia some years back had lots of missteps, so this time around they are going to follow all of the steps leading to the printing process.
Source:Daily Observer
August 05, 2022 11:20 UTC
Editorial: ‘We Are Tired of Telling Our Stories’
“We are tired telling our stories,” said young Cyrus Yormie, a survivor of the Lutheran Church Massacre who was just 5 years old at the time of the massacre of over 400 Liberians, mostly ethnic Nimbaians in the Lutheran Church on Tubman Boulevard Sinkor, on July 29, 1990. The former Captain said at the time, the lives of non-Krahn soldiers and security personnel who remained loyal were always under threat. However a ranking officer of the AFL Major Boi Bloju Boi (deceased) when appearing before the TRC, admitted that the Lutheran Church was behind their lines of control. As massacre survivor Cyrus Yormie aptly put it, they are tired of telling their stories. Those that have ears to hear, let them hear this: They/We Are Tired of Telling Our Stories!
Source:Daily Observer
August 04, 2022 19:50 UTC
“Illusory, Heartbroken with Lost Hope”, Dr. McIntosh Describes CDC’s rule as he Endorses Cummings
Toga Gayewea McIntosh has endorsed the presidential bid of former Coca-Cola executive, and ANC political leader, Alexander Cummings. “Elections are far gone”, he said, and the “promised hope” for our people has become a “lost hope”. Dr. McIntosh a former Minister of Foreign Affairs and one of Liberia’s most accomplished economists argued that though faces and names might have changed in the governance landscape, “the promised hope for our people has become an “illusory hope” to many”. The priority on the Liberian agenda must therefore be one of saving our dear Liberia. This is a must and precondition, if our people are to be lifted out of abject poverty, and if our dear country is to be taken off the slope of underdevelopment”.
Source:Front Page Africa
August 04, 2022 15:16 UTC
Liberia: United People’s Party Pulls out of Ruling Coalition
Monrovia – The United People’s Party (UPP), one of the constituent parties in the Grand Coalition has with immediate effect tendered its dissociation with the Memorandum of Understanding, with the Congress for Democratic Change. The UPP said the current leadership of President George Manneh Weah is not living up to the commitment contained in the October 2017 MOU that brought Weah to power and subsequently, the March 2022 MOU which is geared at re-electing him, as such, it can no longer remain committed to said document. “It may interest you to know that the compelling reason precipitating UPP’s exit from these collaborating agreements encompasses the failure of the CDC to satisfy the expressly stated and accepted expectation of UPP stipulated in the October 2017 collaboration document and, again, failed promises of the CDC associated with the March 2022 Memorandum of Understanding,” stated a letter from UPP, signed by its Acting National Chairman, Susanna Lorpu Mator-Seton started. The UPP matrix of the more than two-thirds votes of the Executive Committee in favor of it pulling out of the arrangement with the CDC was contained in a five-count resolution adopted on July 27, in Monrovia. It stated, “The Executive Committee of the United People’s Party with more than two-thirds majority in favor, do hereby withdraw from every and all electoral alliance processes with the Congress for Democratic Change with whatever nomenclature withstanding.”
Source:Front Page Africa
August 04, 2022 15:12 UTC
Port Stakeholders Confer On Digitization Process
APM Terminals Liberia organized a one-day retreat with key government agencies to provide information on how to use the Port Automation and Digitization (PAD) system, which is expected to be launched on August 10. During the retreat, participants came from Liberia Revenue Authority, the National Port Authority, and MTS to review the end-to-end cargo release process at the Freeport of Monrovia, in preparation for the official launching. Speaking during the retreat, the Managing Director of APM Terminals Liberia, Jonathan Graham, said stakeholder engagement is at the core of rolling out an effective Port digitization process, hence the need for such collaborative meetings. At the retreat, the Liberia Revenue Authority and APM Terminals Liberia presented their preparedness to work together on the process. The process is driven by the Liberia Revenue Authority and APM Terminals Liberia with the strong support of the Ministry of Finance and other key stakeholders.
Source:Daily Observer
August 04, 2022 13:00 UTC
Liberia: UP’s New Faces – How The Old Were Wiped Out, How the New Arrived and Prospects for the Future
The UP standard bearer further charged party leaders not to indulge in backstabbing. Boakai’s emergence as standard bearer unopposed bespeaks of how deep and calculated the party strategies were. But having won as standard bearer, he would yet have one more river to cross, and that would be the October 2023 presidential election. He said defeating President Weah will be a cakewalk for the Unity Party in 2023 because citizens themselves “want change”. Boakai said President Weah has become politically weak after squandering the goodwill Liberians accorded him during the 2017 presidential elections.
Source:Front Page Africa
August 01, 2022 20:37 UTC
Liberia: ANC Requests The People’s Liberation Party to Join CPP
PLP joinsOne of those political parties invited to join the CPP is the People’s Liberation Party of Dr. Daniel E. Cassell. The PLP was established and officially certificated as a full-fledged political party in Liberia by the National Elections Commission (NEC) on December 21, 2020. Chairman, following review of your invitation, and based on discussions that we have had with you all, the People’s Liberation Party (PLP) hereby accepts your invitation to join the CPP. However, some executives are not either cognizant or in favor of the decision reached by the PLP to join the CPP. He sensed deception among few members of the GPC of the party over their denial of endorsing the move to join the CPP.
Source:Front Page Africa
August 01, 2022 08:45 UTC
Liberia: UP Chairman, SG Reportedly Face Boakai’s Ax Ahead of Voting at Convention over Allegations of Secret Meetings with Ruling Establishment
Liberia: UP Chairman, SG Reportedly Face Boakai’s Ax Ahead of Voting at Convention over Allegations of Secret Meetings with Ruling EstablishmentGbarnga, Bong County — Amin Modad and Mohammed Ali’s positions are said to be under threat as they seek re-elections today at the ongoing convention of Unity Party in Gbarnga. The National Chairman and National Secretary General face charges of “regime collaborators” from majority of the convention’s 329 delegates, FrontPageAfrica observed. Luther Tarpeh, a rival to Modad, would rebrand the image of the party because “Modad and Ali have already sold out to the regime”. Modad and Ali refuted the allegations, terming it as a propaganda from his detractors. For a party itching to return to power after 12 years rule, the convention could be a make or break for the Unity Party ahead of 2023 amid claims and counter-claims by stakeholders of the party, according to political pundits.
Source:Front Page Africa
July 28, 2022 21:50 UTC
Finally, Weah Invited to Washington
— As Liberia celebrates 175th independence anniversaryAt long last, President George Manneh Weah has received an official invitation from the United States government to visit Washington, DC. The African Leaders Conference is expected to take place in Washington in December this year. McCarty conveyed President Biden’s letter to President Weah through his speech in which the U.S. President said: “The United States and Liberia have been linked from the very beginning of our shared history. "It is a notable day in the history of not only Liberia and the United States, but all of Africa, as the continent’s first independent republic. As Weah was the next in line to speak, he barely wasted any time to convey to President Biden through the U.S.
Source:Daily Observer
July 27, 2022 02:55 UTC
Liberia: President George Weah's Full Speech at Liberia's 175th Independence Day
I say today To God be the Glory, for the Great Things He has Done. And now today, at this celebration of our 175th Independence Anniversary; we have just witnessed the resubmission of that plague to the Government of Liberia by the American Ambassador to Liberia H.E. It is now our collective responsibility to sustain the peace, security, and stability of this first independent nation in Africa, called Liberia. I say today to all Liberians, hear me and hear me well. I will be there to represent the Liberian peopleLong live Liberia, happy land!A home of glorious liberty, By God's command!!
Source:Daily Observer
July 27, 2022 00:47 UTC
Happy Independence to All
Tomorrow is Independence Day, July 26, 2022 and it marks the 175th anniversary of Liberia’s independence declared on this date in July 1847. Five percent of women age 15-49 are thin (a body mass index [BMI] below 18.5), while 37% are overweight or obese. While child mortality has declined since the 2013 LDHS, according to LISGIS, “under-5 mortality has remained relatively stagnant, and infant mortality has increased. The founding fathers of this nation in the Declaration of Independence wrote: “Liberia is not the tool nor offspring of grasping ambition”. Happy Independence to all!
Source:Daily Observer
July 25, 2022 13:40 UTC
As US Pres. Biden Announces Summit Of African Leaders, Will President Weah Finally Get Invite From Washington?
Biden Announces Summit Of African Leaders, Will President Weah Finally Get Invite From Washington? This has led many to believe that there is a strain on the relationship between the Weah-led government and the United States. Sirleaf’s Was DifferentThe Sirleaf administration was often criticized at the time for lavishing money on lobbyists in Washington. During the early days of the Weah Administration, KRL announced that it signed up a one-year agreement to support President Weah and his administration’s Pro-Poor Agenda for Prosperity and Development (PAPD). Ms. Banks is also a Special Assistant to President Biden and the Senior Director for African Affairs at the Security Council.
Source:Front Page Africa
July 22, 2022 23:27 UTC