By: Nat Bayjay,nbayjay2010@gmail.com An unfavorable scene of violence ensued when court sheriffs and security personnel combined and inflicted wounds and bruises on several student advocates and other concerned youths who had gathered peacefully Tuesday morning in protest to a newspaper editor-in-chief’s trial on the compound of the Temple of Justice. Editor-In-Chief and Publisher of the [...]

By: Nat Bayjay,nbayjay2010@gmail.com From Geneva, Switzerland     Liberia’s human rights defense at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland was characterized by criticisms of increased number of pre-trial detention, its infamous death penalty and ‘cruel’ female genital mutilation simply referred to as FGM. Recovering from a 14 years of civil crises that ended seven years [...]

Nat Bayjay, nbayjay2010@frontpageafrica.com At long last the ongoing battle between the hundreds of residents of the disputed Rocky Hill Community near the Ducor Continental Hotel in Monrovia and the Liberian government seems to be coming to a close as the much anticipated demolition of houses in the area got underway early Thursday morning. The demolition [...]

The senior UN Envoy in Liberia, Ellen Margrethe Løj says the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL), together with its international partners, remains steadfast in supporting the Liberia National Police (LNP) to be fully and independently capable of tackling law enforcement challenges in post-conflict Liberia. Decorating 120 officers of the Nigeria Formed Police Unit (FPU) [...]

By: Nat Bayjay, nbayjay2010@gmail.com Despite the backing off of four other parties from what was initially slated to be an eight-party grand coalition, the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) has been signed in Monrovia with the aim of unseating Africa’s first female president’s government during next year’s elections. The signing of a joint communiqué over [...]

The conference covered various thematic areas including forest management, community consultation and participation, policy development and resource management and planning as well as benefit sharing and governance.

By: Boimah J.V. Boimah With barely two years left until Sierra Leone’s general elections, slated for 2012, General Scribe of the ruling All Peoples Congress (APC) Party, Victor Bockarie Foh,  has embarked on an international soul searching mission for his party with the establishment of the APC party charter in Monrovia, Liberia. His mission is [...]

By: Nathan Patio Charles Email: lydnatlydnatlydnat@yahoo.com Cell#: 231-6-929167 An independent investigation conducted by Ceasefire Liberia, in collaboration with Liberia’s Journalists for Human Rights and Good Governance four month justice reporting workshop for students from several universities in Liberia, has discovered that the  Monrovia Central Prison, popularly known as  South Beach in Monrovia,  is overcrowded. The prison was built [...]

By: Nat Bayjay, nbayjay2010@gmail.com Liberia can now boast of a second referral hospital in rural Nimba County, which is bringing relief to the country’s thousands of rural dwellers’ medical problems. The US$10 million modern hospital was dedicated over the weekend in Tappita, Lower Nimba County, to the cheers of thousands of Liberians including high ranking government officials led [...]

  By: Nat Bayjay, nbayjay2010@gmail.com “I am warning this nation, to kick away corruption, bury its head and foot in the grave, stop corruption otherwise it will raise its ugly head very loud again, we are talking about corruption in high places, it will corruption in the heavens, stop it now, it is eating up [...]