A tragic incident in the forest of Duogee Town, B’hai Administrative District, Grand Gedeh County, has claimed the lives of three Burkinabe. The deceased have been identified as Sawadog Mohammed Desire, 34, Yameogo Oliver, 25, and Tiono Ouibila, 25. A survivor of the incident has also been identified as Antoine Tapsoba, 34. This event occurred…
The Ministry of Gender, Children, and Social Protection has trained over fifty (50) Directors, Coordinators and Technical Staff of the Gender and Social Inclusion Unit (GSIU) from five (5) implementing government ministries of the Liberia Women Empowerment Project (LWEP) under Component 4 of the project. The Liberia Women Empowerment Project is a five (5) year…
Liberia’s prominent civil society and anti-impunity organization, the Solidarity and Trust for a New Day (STAND), condemns the August 22 police raid that spread into the headquarters of the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) in Congo Town, a suburb of Monrovia. STAND observed that the force used by the Police was brutal. STAND calls for…
The violent protest that erupted on Thursday, August 22, 2024 at the Headquarters of the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) did not take away any life as claimed by authorities of CDC, the Liberia National Police (LNP) has disclosed. LNP has termed as untrue and misleading information circulating on social media that the man who…
Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) Political Leader, George Weah has complained President Joseph N. Boakai to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) for what he called “unprovoked attack” on the headquarters of CDC. In his letter to ECOWAS, Weah said his political institution was attacked on Thursday, August 22, 2024 by Liberian security forces…
At least 14 rioters, who were arrested by the Liberia National Police during the August 22, 2024 violent protest at the headquarters of the opposition Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) have been charged and forwarded to court for prosecution. The suspects were charged with Criminal Attempt to Commit Murder, Criminal Facilitation, Criminal Solicitation, Criminal Conspiracy,…
A former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Liberia, Francis S. Korkpor has refuted report linking him to a ploy to obtain a warrant to search the home of former President George Weah. In its Thursday, August 22, 2024 edition of FrontPage Africa (FPA) Newspaper quoting reliable sources close to the Executive Mansion that…
President Joseph N. Boakai has disclosed that Liberia is the most forested country in West Africa, with approximately 69% of its land area, about 6.7 million hectares covered by forests. Speaking Friday, August 23, 2024 at the 124th National Black Business Conference held in Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, the President said Liberia’s forests constitute at…
The Managing Director of the Liberia Petroleum Refining Company (LPRC), Amos B. Tweh and his deputies, Jacob Julius Smith and Eric Ceekay Saryee conducted an inspection of the ongoing construction project at the Petroleum Storage Terminal (PST). During the visit on Friday, August 23, 2024, Tweh assessed the progress of the new tank under construction,…
Early Thursday morning August 22, 2024, the headquarters of the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) became a scene of chaos between the Liberia National Police (LNP) and a group of partisans of CDC. The situation was a result of an early morning raid conducted by the Liberia Drugs Enforcement Agency (LDEA) around the headquarters of…
