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MONROVIA – Liberians would on February 15 have the opportunity to watch Netflix premiere of Larry Charles’ Dangerous World of Comedy, a four-part series from the creative mind behind comedic classics such as Borat and Brüno.

The global financial crisis should give government across Africa a new vigor to finding a sustainable way in funding its budget.

Monrovia – Leading Liberian human rights lawyer Cllr. Tiawon Saye Gongloe along with other newly elected officials of the Liberia National Bar Association (LNBA) are to be inducted into office today, January 25, 2019.

Paynesville – An agrobusiness firm in Liberia, Kawadah Farm, has reemphasized the need for Liberians to focus more on mechanized farming in order to make the country self-sufficient in food production. 

Monrovia – The Inclusive Development Initiative (IDI), a Non-For-Profit Human Rights organization is calling on the government of Liberia to allocate 20 percent of the national budget to the educational sector to improve the status of persons with disabilities in the country.

New Castle, Delaware – The Association of Liberian Journalists in the Americas (ALJA) has described as unfortunate the decision by the House of Representatives’ plenary to subject Montserrado County electoral District #-10 Representative, Yekeh Kolubah, to a Justice Ministry sanctioned investigation in connection with the recent riot involving the Lawmaker, his family and supporters, and alleged thugs of the ruling Coalition of Democratic Change (CDC) in the Smythe Road Community in Sinkor Old Road, a suburb of Monrovia.

Flashback:  Amb. Conteh being gowned after receiving the Honoris Causa Honor from the UL in late 2015 in Liberia Abuja, Nigeria – The University of California, Sacramento, has named Liberia’s Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Nigeria, His Excellency Professor Al-Hassan Conteh, as a member of the International Advisory Board of the Africa Peace Fellows (APF) of its Center for African Peace and Conflict Resolution (CAPCR).

Monrovia – Anti-FGM groups, Women Solidarity Incorporated (WOSI) and the National Working Group against Female Genital Mutilation (NAWOGA-FGM) have called on President George M. Weah and the Legislature to pass law abolishing Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Liberia.

MONROVIA – The Ministry of Health has announced the discovery of Zaire Ebola Virus in a caved bat in Sanniquellie, Mahn District, of Nimba County. Liberia and other West African countries were struck by Ebola Virus Disease in 2014, killing over 4,000 in Liberia alone – the highest in the region. Because the source of the deadly Ebola outbreak between 2014 to 2016 in the West African region was not definitive, a research has been going on by the Ministry of Health (MOH) and the National Institute of Public Health (NPHIL) to establish whether bats carry Ebola. “We have sampling…

Monrovia – Archbishop Isaac Winker of the Dominion Christian Fellowship Church would be mistaken if he thought that his message at the program marking the one-year anniversary of the Weah-led administration on Tuesday, January 22 resonated well with all Liberians. At the thanksgiving service in commemoration of the CDC-led government one-year at the helm of power, the Archbishop prayed that ‘God’ should rise up against anyone who will rise up against the leadership of Pres. Weah. The clergyman’s comments have been greeted with a storm of criticisms from diverse segments of the public including the opposition bloc, student groups and…