Liberia
Thu, 13 May 2021 08:57:29 GMTTeacher Jailed for Raping Student in Pleebo
[New Dawn] A thirty-year-old classroom teacher identified as Joseph chea has been incarcerated for allegedly raping a six-year-old student in Pleebo, Maryland County, southeast Liberia.On Saturday, May 8, 2021, parents of the victim alerted the Women...
Thu, 13 May 2021 08:57:27 GMTIsraeli Company Hooked
[New Dawn] -for US$2m unpaid taxes
Thu, 13 May 2021 08:57:26 GMTMin. Kemayah Underscores Women Empowerment As Matter of Urgency
[New Dawn] Liberian Foreign Minister Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah, Sr. has disclosed that Liberia's Feminist-In-Chief, His Excellency President George Manneh Weah is exerting frantic efforts to making gender mainstreaming a matter of urgency in the formu...
Thu, 13 May 2021 08:57:23 GMTArcelorMittal Liberia VTC Graduates 45 Trainees Saturday
[New Dawn] Yekepa, Nimba County comes alive this Saturday, May 15, 2021, when forty-five (45) young Liberian technicians graduate from the ArcelorMittal Liberia Vocational Training Center (now the ArcelorMittal Training Academy) after they completed ...
Thu, 13 May 2021 08:57:20 GMTCBL - TACC Has No Approval to Operate in Liberia
[New Dawn] The Central Bank of Liberia (CBL) says its attention has been drawn to a publication made in the May 6, 2021 edition of the FrontPage Africa newspaper, captioned "First Digital Asset Company to be Launched in Liberia", with particular refe...
Thu, 13 May 2021 08:57:19 GMTEbenezer United Methodist Church Celebrates Mother's Day
[New Dawn] Ebenezer United Methodist Church on Lynch Street in Monrovia has honored one of its female members, Mother Elizabeth Quaye, as Mother of the Year 2021-2022. Speaking at the occasion Sunday held in the church edifice, the Pastor of the Muso...
Thu, 13 May 2021 08:57:16 GMTFriday Is National Unification Day
[New Dawn] President George Manneh Weah has by Proclamation declared Friday, May 14, 2021 as National Unification Day to be observed throughout the territorial confines of the Republic of Liberia as a National Holiday.
Thu, 13 May 2021 08:57:13 GMTWeah Cautions Muslims Against Violence
[New Dawn] As Muslims observe the end of Ramadan across Liberia, President George Manneh Weah has urged them to eschew violence in their bid to resolve land disputes, because a violent approach to land disputes has the potential to derail and undermi...
Thu, 13 May 2021 08:57:12 GMTSeveral Nigerians Risk Arrest
[New Dawn] -As court places stay order
Thu, 13 May 2021 08:57:11 GMTUSAID, MFDP Sign 81k in-Kind Support Grant
[New Dawn] The United States Agency for International Development, represented by Nathan Associates and the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning; Department of Economic Management have signed a grant in the amount of US$81,000. The grant is i...
Thu, 13 May 2021 08:14:22 GMTSenate Cites LEC, Regulatory Commission
[New Dawn] The Liberian Senate has cited the Liberia Electricity Corporation, the Liberia Electricity Regulatory Commission and the Ministry of Mines and Energy to appear before that body next Tuesday, May 18, 2021 to provide update on the electricit...
Thu, 13 May 2021 08:53:26 GMTFM Holds Talks With His Liberian Counterpart
[MAP] Rabat -- Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Abroad, Nasser Bourita, held talks, Wednesday by videoconference, with minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Liberia, Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah Sr., as part of the ...
Wed, 12 May 2021 10:48:04 GMTCouncil of Patriots Secretary-General, Mulbah Yorgbor, Crosses to Alternative National Congress
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The Secretary-General of the Council of Patriots, a political pressure group, Mulbah Yorgbor, has said only Alexander Cummings' Alternative National Congress (ANC) can salvage Liberia from the current economic meltdown a...
Wed, 12 May 2021 10:48:02 GMTAnother Liberia Revenue Authority Employee Brutally Attacked By Unknown Men - Police Launch Investigation
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- Police in Monrovia are investigating the gruesome attack and brutality meted against an employee of the Liberia Revenue Authority (LRA) by unknown persons around Nyanfor town, Patience Shop Community, in Gardnersville, o...
Wed, 12 May 2021 10:47:58 GMTAn Open Letter to H.E. Amb. George M. Weah, President of the Republic of Liberia
[FrontPageAfrica] Good day, Good afternoon/ Good evening Mr. President,
Wed, 12 May 2021 10:47:57 GMTU.S.$800K Nimba County Development Fund Unaccounted for in Nimba
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- A General Auditing Commission (GAC) findings have uncovered several discrepancies and unorthodox financial practices in the application of the Nimba County Development Fund in the tone of US$800,000.00. The audit report ...
Wed, 12 May 2021 10:47:57 GMTWho Becomes Montserrado's Macho Man?
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The Open Air Sports Commission on Broad Street will come alive with the much anticipated Mr. Montserrado Weightlifting competition on Friday, May 14, 2021.
Wed, 12 May 2021 10:47:56 GMT'Massaquoi Could Not Have Been in Liberia in 2002 When He Feared for His Life'
[FrontPageAfrica] Freetown -- The hearings in the war crimes trial of Gibril Massaquoi got underway on Tuesday after a two week delay because of judges' illness. The court, held at a secret location, as it had been in Monrovia, heard from three witne...
Wed, 12 May 2021 10:47:54 GMTSHE-CAN Fellow Deborah Gonkpah Constructs Latrines for Gbartala Residents to Curtail Open Defecation
[FrontPageAfrica] Gbartala -- Deborah Gonkpah, a fellow of SHE-CAN, a United States-based non-profit organization that is building women's leadership in post-conflict countries, has constructed two pit latrines for residents of Gbartala in Bong Count...
Wed, 12 May 2021 10:47:53 GMTMayor Koijee Encourages U-15 Ahead WAFU Finals
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- Monrovia City Mayor, Jefferson Koijee has encouraged Liberia men under-15 team to be determined ahead of the West Africa Football Union(WAFU Zone 'A') Nations Cup in Guinea.
Wed, 12 May 2021 10:47:52 GMTAU Commissioner Assures Armed Forces of Liberia of More Support
[FrontPageAfrica] Addis Ababa -- Thenewly-elected Commissioner of the Department of Political Affairs, Peace and Security of the African Union, Ambassador Bankole Adeoye, has assured the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) of participation in both Peace Su...
Wed, 12 May 2021 10:47:49 GMTLiberian Striker Kpah Sherman Identifies With Muslims
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- In a move to identify with the Muslim community of Liberia during the holy month of Ramadan, Liberian international striker Kpah Sherman has donated 40 bags of rice, 35 gallons of vegetable oil and twenty thousand Liberi...
Wed, 12 May 2021 10:47:45 GMT'Lack of Support From Government Is Impeding Red Cross' Work' - LNRCS President
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- Jerome Clarke, the president of the Liberian National Red Cross Society (LNRCS) says the lack of financial support from the government is causing serious challenges for them to deliver help to those who need it desperate...
Wed, 12 May 2021 10:47:42 GMTLawmakers Disappointmented Over Speaker Chambers' 'Unilateral Decision' to Abruptly Adjourn Session Due to Power Outage At Capitol
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- Several members of the House of Representatives on Tuesday were left astounded by Speaker Bhofal Chambers' unilateral decision to abruptly adjourn the session due to power failure at the Capitol.
Wed, 12 May 2021 10:47:38 GMTFormer Liberian Journalist to Sue Liberia's Covid-19 Over Missing Flight Due to Delayed Covid-19 Test Result
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- A longtime Liberian journalist and author James Kokulo Fasuekoi says he is taking a lawsuit against the COVID-19 Testing Center in Liberia for not giving his daughter's COVID-19 result on time, something that caused her ...
Wed, 12 May 2021 10:47:32 GMTPolice Arrest Two Over Brutal Homophobic Attacks On Several Individuals in Paynesville
[FrontPageAfrica] Paynesville -- The case of the brutalization of two men and a teenager by a community watch team in the Gobachop community of Paynesville over unfounded allegations they were gays took a twist on Tuesday, May 11, when the Liberian N...
Wed, 12 May 2021 10:47:29 GMTPres. Weah Assures Cote d'Ivoire of Liberia's Commitment to Peace and Stability in the Region
[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- Liberia's Foreign Minister Dee Maxwell Saah Kemayah, Sr, says Liberia is a trusted friend and reliable partner to the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, adding Liberia will never allow an inch of its territory to be used to des...
Wed, 12 May 2021 09:38:05 GMTWeah Unites Sinoe
[New Dawn] -But will the peace hold
Wed, 12 May 2021 09:38:02 GMTAU Commissioner Assures AFL More Support
[New Dawn] The newly elected Commissioner of the Department of Political Affairs, Peace and Security of the African Union (AU), Ambassador Bankole Adeoye, has assured the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) of participation in both Peace Support Operation ...
Wed, 12 May 2021 09:38:00 GMTCOP Chief Scribe Joins ANC
[New Dawn] The secretary general of the Council of Patriot, Mulbah Yorgbor has declared his membership for the opposition Alternative National Congress, become the newest member of the ANC. The Council of Patriot is widely known here for peacefully s...