Liberia: Information Freedom Struggle Continues - Carter Center & MICAT Plow New Frontiers

22 February 2013

Human rights and democracy advocates in September 2010 fractured if not broke backbone of despotism in Liberia when they succeeded in pushing Government to the final Legislation of the Freedom of Information Law. Liberia's ruling elites had thrived on bureaucratic secrecy or close governance practices—a way of entrenching the policy of exclusion, corruption and unaccountability. But it seems the fractured wounds of the Government were healing for a combination of reasons, including but not limited to lack of skills to track, monitor and report compliance and poor public awareness. These defects are now under attack in wake of a pact entered into by the international peace and democracy organization, Carter Center, and the Ministry of Information. The Analyst reports.

The Government of Liberia, represented by the Ministry of Information, Cultural Affairs and Tourism, and the United States-based Carter Center have signed a memorandum of understanding to reinforce the spirit and intent of the Freedom of Information Law signed in 2010.

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