Liberia: Acute malnutrition a 'social problem'
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Date: 23 Nov 2009 Source: Integrated Regional Information Networks
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Liberia: UN Envoy Highlights Civil Societies' Importance
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
UN Envoy Ellen Margrethe Løj has praised civil society organizations in Liberia as the bridge builders between the government and the people.
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Liberia: Journalists Wins International Red Cross Competition
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Liberian Journalist D. Emmanuel Wheinyue was Thursday among three African journalists' recipients of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) "Good News for Africa Competition Award" for promoting positive news of the continent.
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Liberia: Memo to the President - This Requires Immediate Action
All Africa (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
It has been a long time since we last discuss issues of national concern that need your personal, direct intervention. The reason has been simply this: we thought to give you time to digest and take actions on those issues that we already threw at your feet. We thought you might have had your hands full and in a case of a spill, some issues may not get the kind of attention they deserve. Now we are...
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Children Services Bureau Proposed - As Report Card For Children Activities Expected Soon
All Africa (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
As the children of Liberia strive for education and better health delivery system, and vulnerability to danger among pressing national challenges, a group identified as the Children Protection Alliance of Liberia at the end of a two-day symposium has recommended to the Liberian Senate and the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf led administration for the establishment of a department for Children Services at the...
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U.S. Gov't Unveils Rehabilitated Harper City Hall, Administrative Building
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
The United States government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), officially handed over the rehabilitated Harper City Hall/ Maryland County Administration Building to the government of Liberia, after completing five months of rehabilitation work. USAID provided a $450,000 grant to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to rehabilitate the building under its Liberia Community Infrastructure...
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Two Senior Diplomats Present Credentials
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Her Excellency Olubanke King-Akerele has praised France's assistance to Liberia in Debt Relief, and Poverty Reduction Strategy, (PRS) and also extolled the European Union for its numerous assistance to Liberia.
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No Decision Yet
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
The National Democratic Party of Liberia (NDPL) has distanced itself from media reports that it has officially pledged or given its support to the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) for next Tuesday's Senatorial Election Runoff, saying that no decision at the level of the National Executive Committee, the highest decision-making body of the party, has yet been reached.
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President Sirleaf and George Weah on the Campaign Trail
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Both President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and football star George Weah stormed several communities and brought traffic to a grinding halt in several parts of the city Friday in their last bid to woo voters for tomorrow's senatorial election in which their two parties are the finalists after 8 candidates were dropped in the first round.
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'I Lost the Battle, but Won the War' - Says Prof. Kromah
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Senior Associate Professor of the University of Liberia (UL) MASS Communication Department and former independent candidate in the Montserrado County By-election, Alhaji G. V. Kromah has averred that he lost the election in the first round but won the battle.
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We Condemn Attack Against FPA
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THE PRINT EDITION of the online Liberian magazine, FrontPageAfrica, jolted our minds and sent shockwaves of chill down our spines when it reported that in the early hours of Monday this week, unknown individuals attempted burning its offices and printing facilities to the ground. The FPA constructed and began operating from the offices and printing facilities just recently. "According to an eyewitness,...
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Double Standard in Bribery Saga
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If anyone thinks the purging of two top officials from the Sirleaf administration in the aftermath of the notorious LPRC-Zakhem contract did effectively put the matter to rest, it must be a mistake. Several questions still linger: is former LPRC director Harry Greaves, who was in the center of the controversy and also held culpable in the bribery saga by the Ministry of Justice granted amnesty?
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Opposition Coalition Energizes Voters
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"Now, they are serious. We must ensure that this country does not go back to one-party rule.", remarked an elderly man, as the float carrying an array of top-notch political leaders from various opposition political parties, cruised through densely populated areas of Montserrado county on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009.
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It is Not Time to Give Up Hope
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Liberians have been urged not to give up on the political process, because there is still hope. The call was made by the pastor of New Water in the Desert Assembly Apostolic Pentecostal Church, reverend Kortu K. Brown during multi-faceted activities to include the distribution of relief items to vulnerable people in Brewerville community, executed by the church on Friday.
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Lack of Maintenance Impedes Road Rehab
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The Minister of Public Works Samuel Kofi Woods has acknowledged that the lack of maintenance is seriously hampering road rehabilitation activities in the country.
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Behavioural changes key to the prevention of abuse in Liberia’s schools
wellbeingnewseditor | 09/26/2009
Wellbeing Newsline: World > Edited by Nick Adams: The United Nations [UN] envoy to Liberia, Ellen Margrethe Løj, has stressed the need for greater awareness and behavioural changes to combat sexual exploitation and abuse within the country’s schools system; and she went on to reiterated the commitment that the UN made to help the West African nation in its efforts to meet these objectives... Wellbeing...