Liberia News

Last week I participated in the Society for International Development's annual conference in Washington, DC.

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.

Monrovia-based newspaper The New Dawn says the funds will be used to support the cellco's ongoing network rollout and upgrade programme across Liberia.

In her four years as U.S. Secretary of State, Hilary Rodham Clinton made two key visits to Liberia - the first during a seven-nation tour of Africa in 2009 and another to attend the second inauguration of her long-time friend, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf in January 2012.

Firestone Liberia Accelerated Learning and Skills Training Program has graduated 54 students in various skills.

Liberia-based Fyrkuna Metalworks is transforming decommissioned weapons from the West African country's long civil war into whimsical sculptures.

Liberians erected, upon a platform of more than a decade of death and devastation, an epitaph of civil rule in 2005 based on an all-inclusive multiparty democracy and reinforced it in 2011.

The World Bank has offered to go extra miles to strengthen Liberia's energy sector to buttress the government's excellent performance which has ranked her as number one among African States, who poverty rate has fallen to 1.3 percent.

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 have claimed the attention of the Liberian Senate.

The Lone Star Telecommunications Company has signed a US$25 million Medium Term Loan Syndication with four banking institutions in Liberia: UBA Liberia; Ecobank, Liberia Bank for Development and Investment, and the Guaranty Trust Banks .

A South Korean Investment Company, the Make Group says plans are far advanced to invest US$695 million in the construction and development of a millennium village here.

In August 2011, Cllr. Francis Johnson-Allison, Chair of Liberia's Anti Corruption Commission wondered whether monies being pumped into the Liberian economy by multi-million dollar companies were acquired through legal means.

Dehkontee Precious Tarr of Liberia will be visiting Chaddock on Monday, June 17 to speak to students at an assembly beginning at 9:30 am.

Liberian President, Vice President Meet With Make Group Delegation From South Korea - Construction of Millennium Village Complex to Commence Within Months A delegation of the Make Group, a South Korean-based investment company specializing in Africa's development, paid a courtesy call on President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf at her Foreign Ministry ... (more)

Acting Inspector General of Police Mr Mohammed Ahmed Alhassan has been confirmed as the substantive IGP, myjoyonline.com has gathered.

A presentation at the formal opening of the new office of SURE-Liberia and the formal launching of the 2013 National Youth Civic, Human Rights Education and Peace Building Lecture Series By Tiawan S. Gongloe On Friday, May 10, 2013 First, I want to congratulate you on the occasion of the opening of your new office and hope that these facilities ... (more)

The Swedish Industrialist, Alfred Nobel wrote in his will that the Nobel Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who 'shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses'.

The Liberian government has partially confessed to revelation contained in the LEITI audit report and buttressed by Global Witness that it broke its own laws in oil, mineral, forest and land deals worth billions of dollars.

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf returned home on Wednesday following weeks of multiple official visits abroad, but mute on several national issues.

The Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Karin Landgren, awarded United Nations Peacekeeping Medals to more than 700 Ghanaian peacekeepers for their outstanding service as part of the United Nations Mission in Liberia .