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WHEN A 16-YEAR-OLD 10th-grade student sustained noticeable bodily injuries at the Soltiamon Christian School as a result of the brutal beating she received from the Dean of Students Affairs, simply because she had reportedly left her class to borrow sanitary pad from a friend in a classroom next door, it marked the latest in a long list of stone-age practices turning heads in Liberia. WHAT IS EVEN MORE troubling is the lack of genuine remorse from the school administrators following the incident which has taken social media by storm with many still trying to decipher why the School’s Dean of…

BEIJING, China – For many young Liberians and some individuals across the world, particularly in Africa, earning a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) remains a challenging sought-after dream. But for Charles Gbollie, a young Liberian scholar, it is a well-accomplished dream with distinction. 

MONROVIA – The Liberia Coalition of Human Rights Defenders (LICHRD) has officially launched the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) project in Liberia. Funded by the Swedish Association for Sexuality Education (RFSU), the project seeks to increase respect for and access to sexual and reproductive health and rights which centers around fundamental right for all women and girls to have the right to decide over their own body. RFSU is a Swedish State Agency committed to the promotion of Sexual and Reproductive health rights in Sweden and abroad. LICHRD is a member of regional and international networks. It is…

MONROVIA – Several Liberians were honored on Thursday, June 27, 2019, for their contributions to Liberia’s development at the second Liberia Development Awards program, organized by the United States Agency for International Development and other development partners.

MONROVIA – American charity More Than Me, recently slapped with the exposure of major sex scandal and child molestation in Liberia, has announced the closure of its operations in country. A ProPublica investigation published about eight months ago, exposed how a senior faculty member, Macintosh Johnson, sexually abused several female students from the impoverished community of West Point in exchange for free education opportunities. More Than Me, under its education program, ran nine girls’ school since September 2013. Investigation into the matter established that the charity organization did little to prevent the rapes from happening; some of the girl tested…

KAKATA, Margibi – Community members, magistrates and law enforcement officers in Kakata, Margibi County have solidified by relationship in fighting crimes and reducing overcrowding at prison facilities in the County.

MONROVIA – There can be no discussion on women’s contribution to traditional indigenous music in Liberia without the mention of the Liberia National Cultural Troupe. Since its establishment in the 1960s the troupe has been a microcosm of Liberian national cultural heritage. It recruited young talents from every part of the nation through its talent hunt expeditions to be groomed for services to the nation. 

MONROVIA – Christine Elder, United States of America (USA) Ambassador accredited to Liberia on Thursday, June 27, 2019, reaffirmed the American government commitment to help Liberia achieve the goal outlined in President George M. Weah’s pro-poor Agenda.

Tubmanburg, Bomi County – It has become clear now to several employees at the Malaysian oil giant, Sime Darby Plantation, one of the huge investments in the country and are blaming the 11th Judicial Circuit Court located in Tubmanburg, Bomi County presided over by Judge His Honor William B. Sando of stalling the eviction exercise   of illegal occupants of the company housing units, a process which should have taken place many months ago.

MONROVIA – The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has approved a whopping amount of US$$22 million to scale up investment and technology need transfer in Liberia and ten other developing countries including the Angola, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Mauritania, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Uganda and Zambia.