A Yellow Fever Risk Assessment conducted by the Liberian government through the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare in collaboration with its partners has shown that yellow fever outbreak is imminent in Liberia, but the government and its partners are not playing a wait and see attitude.
The United States government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), officially handed over the rehabilitated Harper City Hall/ Maryland County Administration Building to the government of Liberia, after completing five months of rehabilitation work. USAID provided a $450,000 grant to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to rehabilitate the building under its Liberia Community ...
Nineteen-year-old Beauty Phillips clutches her emaciated baby tightly to her chest. At seven months, Inga suffers from malnutrition.
Both President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and football star George Weah stormed several communities and brought traffic to a grinding halt in several parts of the city Friday in their last bid to woo voters for tomorrow's senatorial election in which their two parties are the finalists after 8 candidates were dropped in the first round.
President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf bulldozed her way to power using her background as political activist, advocate of social-economic justice, and trailblazer with proven local and international credentials.
The trial for former Liberian president Charles Taylor took an early adjournment today when immediately after the mid-morning break, one of the judges reportedly fell ill. Prior to the court's adjournment, the accused former Liberian president denied allegations that he sent his rebel fighters to attack neighbouring Guinea, saying that he gave approval to "hot pursuit missions" which entered into ...
When key National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) executives met recently to endorse Mrs. Geraldine Doe Sherif, what they did not announce at the press conference was that she is in fact one of them, an insider member.
It has been a long time since we last discuss issues of national concern that need your personal, direct intervention. The reason has been simply this: we thought to give you time to digest and take actions on those issues that we already threw at your feet. We thought you might have had your hands full and in a case of a spill, some issues may not get the kind of attention they deserve. Now we ...
In the Liberian capital Monrovia acute malnutrition is due not only to poverty and inadequate health and sanitation services but also to factors such as high teenage pregnancy and the war's damage to the social fabric, say nutritionists, who call the condition "a social problem".
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has again appealed to partisans of the Unity Party and the Congress for Democratic Change to demonstrate political maturity, through mutual respect and tolerance, as they go about casting their votes and tabulating the results.
Senior Associate Professor of the University of Liberia (UL) MASS Communication Department and former independent candidate in the Montserrado County By-election, Alhaji G. V. Kromah has averred that he lost the election in the first round but won the battle.
"Now, they are serious. We must ensure that this country does not go back to one-party rule.", remarked an elderly man, as the float carrying an array of top-notch political leaders from various opposition political parties, cruised through densely populated areas of Montserrado county on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009.
Liberians have been urged not to give up on the political process, because there is still hope. The call was made by the pastor of New Water in the Desert Assembly Apostolic Pentecostal Church, reverend Kortu K. Brown during multi-faceted activities to include the distribution of relief items to vulnerable people in Brewerville community, executed by the church on Friday.
The Montserrado County Senatorial By-Election came as the midterm process it is - to replace a deceased member of the Liberian Senate.
Montserrado County Peace Committee (MPC) has cautioned electorate to once more demonstrate high sense of political maturity and patriotism by actively participating in the Tuesday, November 24, 2009, by-election run-off for Montserrado County.
