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WASHINGTON – The World Bank Board of Executive Directors has approved an International Development Association (IDA) credit of $25 million for the Smallholder Agriculture Transformation and Agribusiness Revitalization Project (STAR-P) of Liberia. This project will increase agricultural productivity and commercialization of smallholder farmers for selected value chains in Bomi, Grand Cape Mount, Lofa, Nimba and Margibi counties.

Abuja, Nigeria – Liberia’s Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Professor Al-Hassan Conteh on Tuesday, January 15, 2019 joined the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, His Excellency Muhammadu Buhari and other high-ranked Nigeria government officials in honoring the country’s fallen heroes. A release from the Liberian Embassy in Abuja says the Liberian Ambassador who represented the Diplomatic Community as its Acting Dean laid wreaths for the fallen heroes at a colourful outdoor ceremony. The event which held at the National Arcade in Abuja commemorated this year’s Armed Forces Remembrance Day Celebration (AFRDC). The AFRDC is an annual…

EPA Executive Director Dr. Nathaniel Blama flanked by Deputy Director Randal Dobayou MONROVIA – The Executive Director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of Liberia, Dr. Nathaniel T. Blama, Sr. has attributed repeated conflict at concessions across the country to the failure of companies to apply the ‘Free, Prior and Informed Consent’ (FPIC) process. FPIC is a specific right that pertains to indigenous peoples and is recognized in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). It allows local people to give or withhold consent to a project that may affect them or their territories. Several concessions…

Lora Stege Koppel, CSI board member and mission lead HARBEL, Margibi County – Firestone Liberia welcomed Children’s Surgery International (CSI) back to Duside for its eighth surgical mission and ninth mission to Liberia. The medical team arrived January 11, 2019, at the Roberts International Airport (RIA) in Margibi County and will be in the country for one week. CSI, along with members of the Firestone Liberia medical team, will perform the operations, including cranial facial, complex urological, and a variety of general surgeries on Liberia’s children completely free of charge. Upon arrival in Harbel, Lora Stege Koppel, CSI board…

Consecration of the local Offices of Living Water Int’l Liberia in Ganta, Nimba County NIMBA COUNTY – An American faith-based charity, Living Water International Liberia has launched a five year Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Project in Nimba County, Liberia. The WASH Project targets over One Hundred Seventy Thousand (170,000) persons in Garr Bain District, Nimba county. The program was held Wednesday as part of a One Day Stakeholders Workshop at the United Liberia Inland Central Church in Ganta city. Speaking to WASH Journalists during the ceremony, the Country Director of Living Water International Liberia, Austin Nyaplue said the project…

Oil Palm stakeholders at the SDI-RSPO project launch on Tuesday, January 15, 2019 at the Royal Hotel in Monrovia Monrovia – Roundtable on Sustainable Oil Palm (RSPO), the global oil palm certification scheme, and the Sustainable Development Institute, a local nongovernmental organization, are collaborating in a new project to improve the knowledge of actors in the oil palm sector on best practices and conflict resolution. 

No Liberian wants the world to forget about Liberia and no true Liberian wants Mr. Weah and his government to fail. The truth of the matter is, God only help those who help themselves. We must remove ourselves from the dependency syndrome by doing those things that will assure the world whose help we are seeking, that we mean business. Once we as a people, government and country do what we are supposed to do, there will be no need to put out an SOS call appealing for them, not to forget us – or come to our aid. PRESIDENT…

New Castle, Delaware – The Association of Liberian Journalists in the Americas (ALJA) says its attention has been drawn to media reports regarding the fast pace at which Liberia’s President, George Manneh Weah, is accumulating material wealth, mainly real estates in the country since his ascendency to the nation’s presidency nearly a year ago. 

Monrovia – Amid controversy over President George Weah’s giant multi-million dollar construction projects, his lieutenants including ministers and party’s stalwarts continue to jump to his defense.

MONROVIA – The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) is poised to release its investigative report on the ‘missing’ 16 billion Liberian dollars, FrontPageAfrica has gathered.