President George Weah has sacked two officials of the Liberia Institute for Statistics and Geo-Information Services (LISGIS).
An press release issued from Paris, France names the dismissed officials as LISGIS Acting Director General Wilmot Smith, and his Deputy Director-General for Statistics and Data Processing, Alex Williams.
LISGIS, under the leadership of Smith and his deputies, has been in the public eye for numerous controversies which include repeated
Since October 10, former Liberian militiaman Kunti Kamara has been on trial in France for complicity in crimes against humanity. His trial mirrors the one held in Switzerland against a senior officer, Alieu Kosiah, convicted in June 2021 and invited to testify on October 21 at the Paris Court of Assizes.
The French court has convicted and sentenced Kamara to a life sentence for complicity in
The trial in France of Kunti K. for crimes against humanity in his alleged role as a Liberian former armed group commander is an important step toward justice for victims of Liberia's first civil war, Human Rights Watch and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) said.
Kunti K. is accused of crimes against humanity committed during the first Liberian civil war, which devasted the country from 1989 to 1996.
On Wednesday April 7, 2021, a Finnish court
Liberia's Moses Owen Browne, permanent representative to the International Maritime Organization and Daniel Tarr, the director of the Department of Marine Environmental Protection, are being held in South Korea on rape charges. The two have said they are being framed and are victims of racism.
In a statement, the Liberian Marine Authority said it received "with grave concern", reports of the arrest of the two officials. The Liberian government said it will fully
Justice Sie-A-Nyene Gyapay Yuoh is the third female Chief Justice in Liberia's 175 years of existence. The founding member of the Association of Female Lawyers of Liberia (AFELL) and former Associate Justice was one of two female judges in the current five-member Supreme Court.
Justice Yuoh succeeds Francis Korkpor, who retires in September, a year before the next presidential and general elections. She takes over a court mired in
President George Weah has accepted the resignation of Nathaniel McGill, Syrennius Cephus and Bill Twehway who resigned from their respective positions on Monday September 12, 2022. They were all sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury nearly a month ago. Local radio stations are also reporting that the third sanctioned official, Saymah Syrenius Cephus, also resigned.
The trio were suspended by
In 2017, the African Union (AU) proclaimed September of each year as "Africa Amnesty Month for the surrender and collection of illicit small arms and light weapons" (SALW), aimed at encouraging widespread support for efforts to stop the smuggling of SALW as well as advancing the AU's "Silence the Guns in Africa" by 2030 initiative.
This year, the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) plans to support amnesty activities in
Alternative National Congress (ANC) political leader and head of the relaunched Collaborating Political Parties (CPP), Mr. Alexander B. Cummings, has urged President George Manneh Weah to lead or get out of the way of Liberia's democratic progress.
Cummings' statement is in reaction to President Weah's alleged failure to act against Liberia Institute for Statistics and Geo-Information Services (LISGIS) officials who are allegedly "culpable for forgery and stealing
A day after the U.S Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned three top officials of the George Weah-led administration for involvement in ongoing public corruption, the presidency announced that President Weah suspended the officials with immediate effect, to face an investigation.
Reports have said that the president is being bombarded by calls from several institutions
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A U.S. Court has ordered Colonel Moses Thomas, a former Liberian soldier who supervised the massacre of unarmed civilians at St. Peter's Lutheran Church on July 29, 1990, to pay U.S.$84 Million to four unanimous survivors.
Thomas who headed the Special Anti-Terrorist Unit (SATU), was found guilty by a U.S. court of killing an estimated 600 worshippers- mainly of the Gio and Mano ethnicity - more than three decades ago. The court said he is liable for war crimes, crimes against
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