The Miracles and Riches of God: Autobiography of John Nimley Wulu, Sr. of Monrovia, Liberia, West Africa (Founder and Builder of Schools)
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In the Liberian capital Monrovia acute malnutrition is due not only to poverty and inadequate health and sanitation services but also to factors such as high teenage pregnancy and the war's damage to the social fabric, say nutritionists, who call the condition "a social problem".
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Hundreds of people jammed into a Monrovia church to mourn a Liberian United Nations worker killed in an October attack by Taliban gunmen in Afghanistan's capital.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Hundreds of people jammed into a Monrovia church to mourn a Liberian United Nations worker killed in an October attack by Taliban gunmen in Afghanistan's capital.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The five American Catholic nuns widely believed to have been abused and brutally killed as National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) rebels advanced on Monrovia in their 1992 Operation Octopus were killed in crossfire and not deliberately by his fighters, Mr. Charles Taylor, as commander of the NPFL at the time, has claimed.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Police in the Liberian capital, Monrovia, are detaining a man in his sixties for attempting to sell one of his six children for US$2,000 (Sh148,000) in a bid to "overcome hardship".
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Water and sanitation services in the Liberian capital, Monrovia, are getting worse as a growing urban population tries to squeeze more out of already skeletal services. On 19 November, World Toilet Day, NGOs are calling on the government to up its allocation, and on international donors to reprioritize funding to stamp out cholera and cut child mortality.
Unicef (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
MONROVIA, Liberia, 17 November 2009 – UNICEF and Liberia's Ministry of National Defense have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen their cooperation in ensuring that children's rights are fully respected in interactions between the military and the population – especially those involving children living in military barracks.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Students of the Matilda Newport Jr. High School in Monrovia last week resumed normal classes after they earlier left the school as a result of pollution.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
The first phase of a 3-day Child Reportage and Media Advocacy workshop for journalists in Monrovia has begun at the Don Bosco Homes in Congo Town with about 30 participants drawn from both the print and electronic media in attendance.
Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
The National Authorizing Office (NAO) of the European Commission (EC) has announced strategic assistance worth €165.9 million to the Liberian Government for its post-war reconstruction program. Media reports in Monrovia on Monday quoted the NAO deputy national officer at the Planning Ministry, Alvin Attah, as saying that the money will go towards improving the infrastructure and [...]
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Public Works Minister Samuel Kofi Woods has again called on the Chinese contracted company CICO to speed up and finish road rehabilitations in Monrovia before the current dry season slips away.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Dismissed Grand Cape Mount County Development Superintendent Erasmus Fambullah has failed to cooperate with Police to establish what led to the misapplication of US$62,000 of the Cape Mount development fund, Prosecution lawyers have told Criminal Court "A" in Monrovia.
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Ceasefire Liberia reports: “Police sources in Monrovia say it has made some arrests in the murder of the late Keith Jubah. Immediately after the incidence police arrested Abel Bondo and James Linka. Keith was Liberia's Public Procurement Chairman.”
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Urging Liberians and her government officials to go back to the soil and grow their own food-rice, the nation's staple-President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has cut the first panicles of rice in her backyard farm in Monrovia.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
The Secretary General of the Monrovia Consolidated School System (MCSS), Mr. Abraham Nyounway says the organization is concerned about crowding of students and pupils in government schools in the country.
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