With 45 percent of Liberian children under age five chronically or acutely malnourished, experts say nutrition is a burning health problem, but NGOs feel the Ministry of Health is not as worried as it should be, and lacks the capacity to provide leadership in bringing about solutions.
Most communities have individuals or groups whose exceptional approaches to problems help them find better solutions than their peers, say behavior change experts, who call such individuals 'positive deviants'.
Special Court for Sierra Leone judges today ordered prosecutors to disclose to the defense all new documents that they intend to use in the cross-examination of former Liberian president Charles Taylor who is responding to charges that he was involved in a joint criminal enterprise with rebel forces who waged an 11-years rebel war in Sierra Leone.
More than 25 volunteers from a United States-based humanitarian group, Feed the Children medical team, on Wednesday, December 2, paid a courtesy call on President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf at the Foreign Ministry in Monrovia.
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on Thursday received the Letters of Credence of three Ambassadors accredited near Monrovia. They are: the Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of France, H.E. Gerard Larome; H.E. Attilio Pacifici of the European Union; and H.E. Gilberto Buta Lutucuta of the Republic of Angola. Ambassador Lutucuta is the first Angolan Ambassador to be ...
Hundreds of women representing diverse backgrounds and groups, including Ministers, have planned a massive campaign to protest against Senator Jewel Howard Taylor and Kadiaatu Diara Findley for their alleged insults thrown at the President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf during the just concluded Montserrado senatorial by- election, this paper have leant.
Prosecutors today questioned former Liberian president Charles Taylor on his decision to grant Liberian citizenship to Sierra Leonean rebel forces who relocated to Liberia in December 1999 after falling out with the Sierra Leonean rebel group's hierarchy.
Abel Massalley (Grand Cape Mount-NPP) has added another casualty for his failed and controversial US380,000 Haj by claiming that President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf contributed to the ongoing Hajj fraud because she refused to give the relevant diplomatic documents that would enable him to carry out the pilgrimage, a suggestion the President's Office has categorically denied.
President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has bemoaned the withering of the merit system in the country, while frowning on the endemic corruption prevailing and repeating her vow, "flush it out."
The scheduled 2011 presidential and general elections would be annulled if the legislature fails to act on the population threshold bill before, National Elections Commission officials have warned, implying grave political and stability consequences.
Health officials have conceded that they are losing the war on malaria, as it remains a major killer disease, citing for over 70 per cent of infant mortality cases here.
Leading global development and Africa advocacy groups reacted with outrage today to news that a London court recently awarded two Vulture Funds a $20 million judgment against Liberia. This amount of money represents the country’s entire education budget and 150% of their spending on health in 2008.
THE TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION OF LIBERIA (TRC) has announced the release and publication of its final reports after several weeks of editing and technical work leading to its publication. The report which is an edited version of the "TRC FINAL REPORT, VOLUME II, CONSOLIDATED REPORT(UNEDITED)" was released on June 30, 2009. Atleast 1,500 copies of the report is now in print, courtesy of ...
One of the leading Global Service Network (GSM) companies in , Cellcom, has announced a new number series.
Lebanese businessman Mr. Hafex M. Jawhary says he is seeking the intervention of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court in the Holiday Inn case.
The Program Manager of the National AIDS Control Program (NACP) Dr. Benjamin Vonhm says the provision of quality treatment to people living with HIV/AIDS is significant to improving their living conditions.
The Liberia National Police (LNP) has burned over 280 kilograms of narcotic and other dangerous drugs valued at least L$3 million.
In its bid to buttress the Government of Liberia's Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) initiative in the country, one of 's leading GSM Companies, the LoneStar Communications Company (LCC) has provided over 200 job opportunities for Liberian students to help facilitate their tuition payment.
Head coach of Liberia BYC, Robert Lamptey has warned host FC Johansen they will receive a shocker in today's opener in the Africa International Youth tournament.
Charles Taylor today told Special Court for Sierra Leone judges that he received money from both Taiwan and Libya as contributions to his campaign to become president of Liberia in 1997.
THE TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION OF LIBERIA (TRC) have announced the release and publication of its final reports after several weeks of editing and technical work leading to its publication. The report which is an edited version of the "TRC FINAL REPORT, VOLUME II, CONSOLIDATED REPORT(UNEDITED)" was released on June 30, 2009. Atleast 1,500 copies of the report is now in ...
The Minister of Finance, Augustine Nganfuan has announced in Monrovia that an international investment group, the Hamsah Investments Limited and Wall Capital Limited has sued the Liberian Government in a British High Court in London for a Summary Judgment to enforce a 2002 New York judgment for over US$ 20million.
With 45 percent of Liberians chronically or acutely malnourished, experts say nutrition is a burning health problem, but NGOs feel the Ministry of Health is not as worried as it should be, and lacks the capacity to provide leadership in bringing about solutions.
THE NATIONAL ELECTIONS Commission (NEC), last week, declared Madam Geraldine Doe-Sheriff the undisputable winner of the run-off of the Montserrado County Senatorial By-Election. The first round election, which paraded ten contenders, ended with an inevitable impasse. The run-off was therefore a constitutional requirement to break that impasse.
The Ministry of Commerce and Industry has announced the setting up of a National Standard Board to curb the proliferation of substandard goods including food, cosmetic, insecticide on the local market.
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