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  • Liberia Open Budget Extends to Rural Liberia

    The Open Budget Initiatives (OBI) launched by the Ministry of Finance is being taken to rural Liberia to educate citizens on government's financial programs. The Open Budget Initiative, launched by President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf early this year, is intended to explain to average Liberians the expenditure of the national budget. The OBI team over the week visited students of Harbel, ...

  • Liberia Liberia Seeks U.S. Protective Gear in Mali

    Liberia has requested the United States' (US') support in the form of protective gear, to enable the deployment of the Liberian platoon that will participate in the peacekeeping operation in Mali. A dispatch from Washington, the United States of America says President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf also sought U.S. support in tackling drug trafficking in the West African Region. President ...

  • Liberia Well Make Up - Liberian Prez Sirleaf Somersaults Over Spat With Liberia Media

    Barely a week after her now infamous declaration that she was "enjoying this benign neglect" and "I wish they will continue it for a long time," when asked to response to a much-publicized blackout by major newspapers and radio stations in Liberia, protesting anti-media statements attributed to the head of her Executive Protection Service, Liberian president Ellen ...

  • Liberia A Big Blow to Liberia - Death of Archbishop Francis Hits Nation Catholic Church

    Monrovia - Archbishop Michael Kpakala Francis, an outspoken clergy renowned for his fiery sermons and stance against brutal regimes of former presidents Samuel Doe and Charles Ghankay Taylor is dead. Archbishop Francis who never fully recovered since he suffered a stroke in 2004 has been ailing for quite some time. His death leaves a major vacuum in the Catholic Church of Liberia. Born ...

  • Liberia Ellen Defends Record

    Despite a recent independent audit, which cast doubt on good governance and transparency here, amidst a media rage, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf on Friday defended her government's record on good governance and transparency. The Reuters news agency quotes president Sirleaf as saying that audit of resource contracts by accounting firm Moore Stephens had been commissioned to fix, and not ...

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  • Liberia Our Tribute to Bishop Michael K. Francis

    The Most Outspoken personality in contemporary Liberia has been silenced permanently by the power of death. Catholic Archbishop Michael K. Francis has finally given up the ghost following a prolonged illness. His Demise Was announced on state radio Sunday, May 19, 2013 by the Archbishop of the Diocese of Monrovia Lewis Jerome Zeigler. According to Archbishop Zeigler, Bishop Francis died at ...

  • Corruption Stinks At ‘cottage’ Hospital

    The Public Accounts Committee in Parliament in collaboration with the Auditor General's Office has produced evidence indicating that funds allocated to the Princess Christian Maternity (PCMC) Hospital otherwise known as 'Cottage' Hospital were misappropriated two years ago and cannot now be accounted for by the hospital's management. Present in the Committee Room in ...

  • Magburaka Is Rising Again

    His Excellency Dr Ernest Bai Koroma has confidently told the people of Magburaka that their township is on the rise. "Magburaka is rising again with paved roads, solar-lit streets. Magburaka is rising again, with employment opportunities opening up for its inhabitants; Magburaka is rising again, with renewed zeal, faith and action. And with the rise of this town, our school, the Government ...

  • As Lantern Parade Kicks Off in Makeni

    President Ernest Bai Koroma has said that this year's lantern parade in Makeni is first of its kind as the Heritage Foundation has decided to replicate the event all across the country. The Chief Executive called on the youth to be law abiding and be disciplined as prosperity doesn't exist where there is indiscipline. "Yesterday, I was standing where you're standing today, ...

  • International Labor Rights ForumInstitute for Policy Studies Firestone Workers in Liberia Sign Historic Contract

    New Contract is a Major Victory for International Campaign Against Firestone WASHINGTON - August 6 - Workers on the ...

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