By Peterking Quaye, Monrovia,Liberia – History will serve us right, as this year’s African Football (CAF) 2011 Football of the Year has no Liberian nominated. Despite the efforts of local sports journalist to project and present the brilliant performance of Liberian footballers in Europe and cross the globe, CAF has still not recognized them yet. One of Liberia’s hopeful for nomination was Sekou Jabeth, from Russian side CSKM, the ultimate award winner, who will be unveiled on Friday, December 23, at the Banquet Hall, State House, Accra, will see Ayew contesting with four time winner, Samuel Eto’o Fills of Cameroon,... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Thursday, December 15th 2011 |
By: Augustine N. Myers – The Minister of Public Works, Attorney-at-Law Samuel Kofi Woods, II, has called for a comprehensive performance review of the Independent Human Rights Commission of Liberia. Public Works Minister, Samuel Kofi Woods Minister Woods who is also former Director of the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission, made the comments Saturday, December 10, 2011 when he spoke via telephone with some journalists from Brussels en route to Oslo, Norway for the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony. He said International Human Rights Day celebrations will have meaning when the legally mandated entity established to provide proper national guidance on human... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, December 12th 2011 |
By Peterking Quaye ,Monrovia, Liberia – The three women will share the 10 million kronor ($1.5 million) award, to be presented Saturday at Oslo’s City Hall. The Norwegian Nobel Committee honored women with the peace prize for the first time in seven years, and in selecting Karman it also recognized the Arab Spring movement championed by millions of often anonymous activists from Tunisia to Syria. It is on record that no woman or sub-Saharan African had won the prize since 2004, thereby making this award won by these Liberian worthy to celebrate and the whole Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Sunday, December 11th 2011 |
….AS Joint Monitoring Team Ends Visit To Nimba County – By: Augustine N. Myers – The Action by Churches Together (ACT Alliance) through its Appeal Project in Nimba County, the Republic of Liberia designed to assist thousands of Ivorian refugees and host communities, has ended a 5-day intensive visit to beneficiaries and others in Nimba. Participating members include the Church of Sweden, Finn Church Aid, Lutheran Development Service (LDS) in Liberia, and the Lutheran Church in Liberia Trauma Healing and Reconciliation Program. Others include the Rural Human Rights Activates Program and Equip-Liberia. The assessment which started on Monday, November 28 to... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, December 7th 2011 |
…As Participants Vow To Be True Ambassador – By: WASH R&E Network – An International Charity, the Cooperative Housing Foundation (CHF-International), has ended an eight-day workshop on Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) in Gbarnga, Bong County with for over thirty participants in attendance. The workshop organized by CHF-International Liberia in collaboration with the Government of Liberia with support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was intended to train County Level Facilitators (CLF) and Natural Leaders (NL) under its CLTS Project. CHF-International Liberia Coordinator on Community Mobilization and Empowerment, Elizabeth Geddeh, said the County Level Facilitators were drawn from various... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, December 5th 2011 |
