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  • Liberia Grand Gedeans in Claims Counter-Claims

    Grand Gedeh County Electoral District #3 Representative Alex Grant has accused the county's Superintendent Peter Solo of master-minding the arrest, detention and prosecution of 19 kinsmen charged with murder, rape and mercenarism, among others by the Government of Liberia. Representative Grant said Superintendent Solo has mobilized witnesses in Grand Gedeh to testify against the accused ...

  • Liberia The World Is Noticing Liberias Steady Progress Government Unveils Reconciliation Agenda

    About ten years ago, we agreed to start over. With the help of the international community, and the assistance of our sub-regional neighbors, from the safe surroundings of a neighboring Capital, Liberians hammered out a peace deal which impressed the world that we were ready to move ahead - ready to right the wrongs of the past; ready to lay firmer foundations for a brighter future; and ready to ...

  • Liberia Weah Speaks On TRC Report

    Liberia's Peace Ambassador George Weah says here that he will solicit views from Liberians on recommendations contained in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report to forward such views to the government, cleverly avoiding taking a definite stand on the controversial TRC findings and recommendations. The TRC, which ended its work in 2009, had recommended series of actions, including ...

  • Liberia Seeking Solution to Peace

    The search for peace and reconciliation is a continuous process in any postwar nation. In Liberia, the peace and reconciliation is on course, but largely stalled apparent due to lack of commitments on the part of certain political actors and stakeholders. Past initiatives intended to accelerate the process of restoring genuine peace and reconciliation crumbled because of apparent disagreement ...

  • Liberia Unusual Trial - Four Different Courts to Try 19 Grand Gedeans

    19 citizens of Grand Gedeh County indicted by the Liberian government on multiple criminal charges for their alleged roles in the Liberian-Ivorian cross border attack that left seven peace-keepers from Niger and four Ivorian citizens dead are to be tried in four different courts at the Temple of Justice. Legal experts say it is unusual in the legal profession for indictees to be tried in ...

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The Lovers (Les amants) [DVD]

The Lovers (Les amants) [DVD]

Regarded as both revolutionary and scandalous (are the two ever far apart?) when it was released in the late 1950s in both Europe and the United States, Louis Malles The Lovers (Les Amants) has not aged terribly well in the ensuing six decades, and its not because its tastefully ... ...

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  • Liberia Beyond the Reconciliation Rhetoric - Weahs Peace Drive Must Put Words Into Action

    FOOTBALL LEGEND GEORGE Manneh Weah finally embraced his role as Peace Ambassador Wednesday, displaying his FIFA Footballer of the Year Award to a roomful of journalists as he declared his intentions to work with all sides in the Liberian conflict in leading the charge to reconcile Liberia. WEAH IS undoubtedly the most popular Liberian on the face of the planet after spending 14 years of his ...

  • Liberia NIC to Sack 50 Employees

    With seven and half years into the presidency, the internationally acclaimed first democratically elected female president of Africa, Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, is yet to put permanent lid on her avowed promises of putting Liberians back to work, creating employment opportunities. The unemployment gap is widening, something the government has conceded. Yet, a key institution clothed with the ...

  • Top ally of ex-Liberian president found in Sierra Leone

    Former Liberian President Charles Taylor walks into a ceremony to hand over power to Moses Blah August 11, 2003 in Monrovia, Liberia. (Chris Hondros, Getty ...

  • Sierra Leone Le10m worth of food windfall for Blind School

    Assorted food items valued to the tune of Le10 million has been donated to the Milton Margai School for the Blind, by the Noble Sarjoski Conclave at the school’s premises yesterday evening. The presentation was done by erstwhile Chairman of the Conclave; Alimamy Petito Koroma to the Deputy Minister of Social Welfare, Mustapha Bai Atila and the Acting Principal, Didymous Kargbo amidst loud ...

  • Sierra Leone 45 CSOs trained on Public Accounts Transparency

    The Center for the Coordination of Youth Activities (CCYA) has ended a-one day capacity training for 45 Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) around the country to increase their capacities on how to engage in public finance accountability issues to enhance the economic and social development of Sierra Leoneans. According to CCYA’s Executive Director, Ngolo Katta, the training is to build ...

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