New Democrat (Monrovia)
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December 3
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Liberia: Police Confiscate 100 Firearms
Police in Monrovia have announced the confiscation of 100 firearms from people who have illegally possessed them. Read more »
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Liberia: Motorcyclists Held for Armed Robbery
Three motorcyclists were arrested Friday accused of complicity in armed robbery. Read more »
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Liberia: Fulanis Citizenship Struggle Gains Momentum
With the Fulanese tribe gaining rapid assimilation in the country, a leading member of the Mandingo tribe has vowed to lead an advocacy that will ensure that the Fula tribe becomes... Read more »
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Liberia: Nigerian Rearrested for Armed Robbery
Amos Joseph Chinedu, a Nigerian described by police as a "hard-core" armed robber who claimed to have been released on bail by Judge James W. Zotaa of Criminal Court 'D' Saturday... Read more »
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Liberia: Group Defends Chinese Credentials
The debate over the qualification of few medical practitioners who recently returned home from China after undergoing intensive medical training has intensified with a... Read more »
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Liberia: Let's Stop Violating the Constitution [column]
Liberians under their nascent democracy are bubbling up over what they believe could be a violation of some clauses in the constitution, but appear unsure or timid to step upstage... Read more »
November 30
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Liberia: Tubman Remembered
On the 117th birth anniversary of Liberia's 18th President, William VS Tubman, celebrated annually as a national holiday, President Ellen Johnson Sirealf yesterday urged Liberians... Read more »
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Liberia: 'Baby Shad' Rekindles National Unity
Since his exit from the limelight following his loss in the 2005 presidential elections, William VS Tubman, Jr., known as 'Baby Shad' by his contemporaries as patriarch of the... Read more »
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Liberia: Women's 30 Percent Role Doubted
Pushing for concerted efforts to increase women's participation in governance, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has expressed doubts about the achievement of 30% women... Read more »
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Liberia: Tackling Armed Robbers' Menace
The public fear and anxiety that greeted the sordid activities of armed robbers in and around Monrovia now appear to have receded with residents in many communities no longer... Read more »
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Liberia: Row Over Chinese-Trained Doctors
The debate over the qualification of Liberian medical doctors trained in China continued yesterday with callers condemning the two physicians who initially raised qualms about the... Read more »
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Liberia: U.S.$One Million Trial Gets Green Light
Supreme Court Chamber Justice Philip Banks has given the green light to Criminal Court 'C' presiding Judge Peter W. Gbeneweleh to resume hearing the case of the pastor and his wife... Read more »
November 29
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Liberia: 19 Burn Unmil Ambulance
Police have forwarded 19 persons to court after being charged with multiple offenses for allegedly burning an UNMIL ambulance on Schieflin- Roberts Field Highway last week. Read more »
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Liberia: Cellcom Reduces Internet Tariff
Cellcom GSM Company has announced a drop in its tariff for the GPRS/ Edge internet service as the provider of the lowest rate in the internet service compared to other telephone... Read more »
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Liberia: War On for Unscrupulous Tax Collectors
A newly designed Identification Card that will aptly identify revenue personnel (auditors, enforcers, analysts, collectors and agents) has been introduced by the Ministry of... Read more »
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Liberia: Debating National Holidays On Tubman's Anniversary [editorial]
Tomorrow, Nov. 29, Liberians are expected to celebrate the 117th birth anniversary of President William VS Tubman whose 27-year rule over Liberia spanned 1 January 1944 to 21 July... Read more »
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Liberia: Lonestar Suspension Shaky
The suspension of the LoneStar Phone Company by the Liberia Telecommunication Company (LTA) may not come to fruition following a "Notice of Arbitration" filed by the company... Read more »
November 27
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Liberia: 30 Protestors Arrested in Grand Gedeh
There was a rowdy scene in Toe Town, Grand Gedeh County at the weekend when police arrested about 30 persons in connection with the closure of Cellcom offices in the district. Read more »
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Liberia: France Wants Arcelor Mittal Out
Arcelor Mittal is no longer welcome in France, its minister for industrial recovery, has said, accusing the steelmaker of "lying" and "disrespecting" the country. Read more »
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Liberia: Homicide Horrors in Ganta
Police in the commercial city of Ganta, Nimba County are investigating at least three persons for their alleged involvement in the gruesome murder of two persons at separate... Read more »
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Liberia: Financial Misdeed At GAC
Aggrieved employees of the General Auditing Commission (GAC) have accused the Auditor General Robert Kilby of misuse of the agency's finances in violations of extent laws and... Read more »
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Liberia: NEC Reforms Ambiguous Laws
Expressing the need for reforms in some electoral laws, National Elections Commission acting chairman, Cllr. Elizabeth J. Nelson has affirmed that some of the existing electoral... Read more »
November 26
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Liberia: Britain Alarms Security Threat
Great Britain says its safety and security advisory to Europeans traveling to Liberia and while they move about in the country remained unchanged as updated on 29 October 2012. Read more »
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Liberia: Curfew On Motorcyclists Remains in Force
The US$1 million theft trial involving a pastor and his wife appears to be at stake with the judge hearing the case expected to appear before the Supreme Court today in response to... Read more »
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Liberia: Charles Taylor's Fatal Sierra Leone Dance [column]
Despite all the wrangling and denials, Liberia's role in Sierra Leone horrors is being established. And gradually, world political actors troubled by Sierra Leone's unending terror... Read more »
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