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 [...]

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 weekend [...]

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 intended to [...]

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 the government’s [...]

BY: Nathan Patio Charles
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The Chief Technical Adviser at the International Labor Organization (ILO), Magnus Berge, has pledged ILO support to the Liberia Labor Congress (LLC) to ensure the Congress meets international standards.
Mr. Berge said the organization’s support will range from partnerships, social dialogue, and collective [...]

By: Nathan Patio Charles
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The Liberia National Police have charged and sent to court 48-year old, Victor Kennedy, for statutory rape. According to Police Spokesman, George Bardu, defendant Kennedy, allegedly raped a 13-year old girl in central Monrovia.
The mother of the 13-year old victim told police investigators that the defendant allegedly committed the act [...]

By: Nat Bayjay, nbayjay2010@gmail.com
 Liberia’s Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is probably the most excited of all Liberians at the news that the country’s huge US$4.6 billion debt has been waived. She described the waiver as a ‘burden’ off the country’s shoulders and a happy day for the nation.
President Sirleaf, while addressing the nation last week, declared the milestone [...]

 
By: Nat Bayjay, nbayjay2010@gmail.com
Following Liberia’s 14 years of brutal civil war that ended in 2003, youth initiated violence continues to persist, a situation that continues to threaten the country’s fragile peace.
Youthful violent instances such as the burning down of police stations in Bong, Margibi, and Nimba Counties, the Lofa County’s religious-tribal violence that left three [...]

By: Nat Bayjay, nbayjay2010@gmail.com
As Americans in the United States of America (USA) and other parts of the world observed and celebrated their country’s 34th Independence Day Sunday, those in Liberia too had their share of the celebration in the capital Monrovia with a caution from the American Ambassador for Liberia to take cue from that [...]

By: Nat Bayjay, nbayjay2010@gmail.com
Pain, they say, goes along with development. In this particular case the pain is being felt by over 100 people who occupied the Center Street area of Monrovia that stretches from the College of West Africa (CWA) through the commercial Waterside District of Water Street and up to the waterfront of the [...]