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Wanted – Honorary Consuls For ‘Cash-Strapped’ African Nations

Wanted – Honorary Consuls For ‘Cash-Strapped’ African Nations

Honorary consuls occupy a little-known niche in the global elite. Many work to rigorous standards, but for others their avowed love for their adopted country is not always reflected in their tax filings. On an overcast afternoon in September 2009, Benin President Thomas Boni Yayi raised a pair of golden scissors above a ribbon at […]

West Africa is Losing Millions of Dollars

West Africa is Losing Millions of Dollars

West Africa is losing millions of dollars that could be spent tackling poverty and inequality because governments are bending the rules to favour the rich and powerful, said Oxfam today in the wake of #WestAfricaLeaks. #WestAfricaLeaks shows an elaborate collusion between some of the region’s most powerful politicians and business leaders. From Senegal and Nigeria […]

On Africa Day – Who Has Taken Up the Mantle of Pan-Africanism?

On Africa Day – Who Has Taken Up the Mantle of Pan-Africanism?

Pan-Africanism – the liberation of Africans through regional cohesion and solidarity – has played a crucial role in shaping the continent’s development. First championed by Kwame Nkrumah and Julius Nyerere in the 1960s, it was later advanced by Thabo Mbeki and Olusegun Obasanjo, whose presidencies in South Africa and Nigeria respectively saw the introduction of […]

Liberian Woman Sues Air Brussels for Over U.S.$1 Million in Damages

Liberian Woman Sues Air Brussels for Over U.S.$1 Million in Damages

Brussels Airlines one of the foreign-owned passengers’ airlines doing business in the country has been dragged to court for damages. The lawsuit now before the Civil Law Court awaiting hearing was filed by a woman, Winnifred George of the City of Monrovia. Ms. George stated in her complaint that she is a Liberian citizen who […]

More Liberians to Endorse Vice President Joseph Nyuma Boakai

More Liberians to Endorse Vice President Joseph Nyuma Boakai

A little over 90 days to the Representatives and Presidential elections, Vice President Joseph Nyuma Boakai continues to get citizens and organizations endorsement for the nation’s highest seat, the Presidency on October 10, 2017. The Liberian Vice President has received endorsements from 31 members of the House of Representatives, 19 Senators and number of local […]

Concession Conflict Management Meeting Gets Underway in Monrovia

Concession Conflict Management Meeting Gets Underway in Monrovia

As part of improving citizens’ engagement in concessions management and managing concession-related conflicts, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) is organizing a two-day national multi-stakeholders platform meeting in Monrovia, according to a press release yesterday. The meeting brings together four Multi-Stakeholders’ Platforms (MSPs) from affected communities in concession areas in Grand Cape Mount, Maryland, Nimba […]

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Declares Assets As Tenure Comes to An End

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Declares Assets As Tenure Comes to An End

When Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was sworn in as Liberia and Africa’s first woman head of state, some eleven years ago, she pledged to set an example for others in her government to follow, starting with the declaration of assets. “I further call on all Presidential aspirants, to consider in their own interest to do the same” […]

Liberia’s former leader’s ex-wife charged with torture

Liberia’s former leader’s ex-wife charged with torture

The ex-wife of Liberia’s former president has been charged with torture, the Metropolitan Police said. Agnes Reeves Taylor, who was married to Charles Taylor, is to appear in court in London on Saturday. Ms Reeves Taylor, 51, faces charges related to alleged crimes committed during the first Liberian civil war, between 1989 and 1991. Some […]

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Says All Candidates Will Run

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Says All Candidates Will Run

President Ellen Johnson – Sirleaf says all “political candidates” will participate in the October 2017 presidential and legislative elections, adding that the process will be successfully [conducted], though she did not make any further clarity whether or not those battling against a Code of Conduct here are inclusive. “… And that all Liberians will participate […]

‘Democracy Meaningless When the People Are Hungry’

‘Democracy Meaningless When the People Are Hungry’

The political leader of the Movement for Economic Empowerment (MOVEE), Dr. J. Mills Jones has said that democracy as a form of government does not have meaning when those who are governed are hungry. As a result he said Liberians must not choose their leaders out of fear in October elections because they now have […]

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