By Peterking Quaye – A two-day high level International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding takes place in Monrovia from Tuesday, June 14 to Friday, June 17, 2011 at the SKD Sports Complex. This dialogue is intended to better understand the problems of fragile states, including Liberia, Sierra Leone, Temor Leste, DRC, etc. A media advisory from the Ministry of Planning and Economic Affairs Communications office says the Monrovia Dialogue which is the Second International Dialogue on Peace-building and State-building will produce and an International Action Plan (or the Monrovia Action Plan on Peace-building and State-building) as the key output. The... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, June 13th 2011 |
…..Refugees, Host Communities Renew Appeals for Urgent Intervention – By: Augustine N. Myers – Nimba County, Liberia’s second largest populated County is still facing a seriously water and sanitation problem, despite efforts by the Liberian government and WASH partners to address the issues of safe drinking water, improved sanitation and hygiene. Nimba County with six political Districts, has a population of 462, 026 “according to a 2008/2009 report from the Liberia Institute of Statistics and Geo Information Services (LISGIS)”; a figure that has increased with the arrival of thousands of Ivorian refugees, most of whom are still residing in the... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, June 13th 2011 |
By: Augustine N. Myers – Hundreds of Ivorian refugees in Nimba County have benefited from a consignment of relief items, valued over 135 thousand United States dollars. The items were provided by the Lutheran Development Service in Liberia (LDS), a National Non Governmental Organization operating in the Country as the Development Arm of the Lutheran Church of Liberia. Speaking to this paper over the week-end shortly after the entire distribution exercise in Karmplay, Nimba County, the Program Officer of the Lutheran Development Service in Liberia (LDS), Mrs. Bernice K. Womba, said the exercise was in continuation of a project... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Tuesday, June 7th 2011 |
The “Lady from Wangara Hotel” says she is appalled by series of allegations detailed in the Chronicle Newspaper that she is a Taylor operative. By Own Correspondent with support from FPAOnline.com – The Chronicle, in its last four publications suggests that the Ghanaian businesswoman is in Monrovia to bankroll the candidacy of Dew Mayson and Jewel Howard Taylor and that she has been meeting high-ranking NPP executives during her business trip to Monrovia. The newspaper, in a series of reports, alleged that Nana Miezah-Hill known by many as ‘Aunty Nana’ is in constant contact with former Liberian President Charles Taylor,... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, June 1st 2011 |
(NEC, May 30, 2011/ Monrovia) The National Elections Commission (NEC) with support from the International IDEA held a two-day consultative dialogue forum with political parties so as to ensure that parties put women issues on their agenda by reflecting them in party’s manifestos, constitutions and other party documents. The forum was held from May 23 to 26, 2011 in the port city of Buchanan, Grand Bassa County. Officially opening the forum, the Chairman of the NEC, James M.Fromayan, urged political parties not to put women issues on the backburner, stressing that there are lots of barriers put in the way... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, May 30th 2011 |
