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Monrovia – Following the 2017 general elections and a lessons learnt exercise held by the National Elections Commission (NEC) in February 2018 partners today signed off on a workplan for 2018 that will continue to strengthen the institutional capacity of Liberia’s electoral management body and engage in wider reform in the policy and legislative areas. During the next year international partners will support reform of the NEC’s asset management system and rehabilitation of warehousing facilities to ensure existing and new equipment purchased in advance of the 2017 elections is catalogued and managed securely. The plan is to renovate all 19…

Monrovia – Catholic Relief Services (CRS) in collaboration with Monrovia City Corporation (MCC), West Point Community Empowerment and Sanitation Services Inc., and community members of West Point participated in a community cleaning day in West Point as part of the national “Clean Cities” Initiative on Saturday May 6, 2018. The event marked the first global CRS Community Day, where CRS staff around the world work in service and solidarity with people they serve on community projects. As part of the event, Honorable Mayor Jefferson T. Koijee officially handed over three public latrines rehabilitated by CRS to the West Point township.…

Bong County – Over the years, Liberians, especially those in the rural areas have complained of not been fully aware or are totally excluded from the planning and implementation of development projects undertaken either by their lawmakers or national government in their respective communities. Some citizens have even termed as self-imposed projects with no positive impacts on the lives of the greater majority as the result of the lack of citizens’ consultations and inputs on priority projects and needs. These missteps have led to entrenched poverty, massive corruption, deprivation, under development, projects abandonment and disunity amongst a larger portion of…

Monrovia – Dr. Amos C. Sawyer, former Interim President of Liberia and the immediate past Chairman of the Governance Commission was on Saturday May 5, 2018 one of few distinguished personalities awarded honorary doctorate degrees by Indiana University (IU), a leading public research university in the United States. In his address to a mammoth crowd including the chairperson and members of the University’s Trustees, past and current US and state congressional members, professors and professor emeriti, family members and friends of graduates at the 189th Commencement Convocations in Bloomington, Indiana, IU’s President Dr. Michael A. McRobbie said that the Honorary…

Report by Augustine T. Tweh, [email protected] Suakoko, Bong County – Hundreds of Cocoa farmers from Bong, Nimba and Lofa counties over the weekend witnessed the official launch of Liberia Cocoa Sector improvement program (LICSIP) at the Cuttington University in Suakoko, Bong County. The program was launched by Solidaridad West Africa (SWA) in collaboration with the European Union (EU) to provide support, strengthen and boost the cocoa sector by training farmers. Giving the overview of the launch, Solidaridad agribusiness specialist, Eric Agyare said the project will revitalize the country’s cocoa sector by creating a vibrant, competitive and profitable cocoa economy driven…

Report by Christopher C. [email protected] Monrovia – The Gambia has been crowned champion of the 2018 West African Football Union (WAFU) under 20 Zone A Nations Cup that was held in Liberia. The “Junior Scorpions,” as The Gambian junior football national team is called, on Saturday, May 5, secured a hard fought 2-1 victory over host Liberia in front of their home fans in Monrovia.  The National U-20 team of Liberia went into the match prepared to win the country’s first major trophy in 39 years against an undefeated Gambia in the grand final of the inaugural edition of the…

By Lennart Dodoo, [email protected] Monrovia – The House of Representatives is yet to commence hearing on the Draft Budget for Fiscal Year 2018-19 but analysts are raising contentions, citing some contradiction bout government’s priorities. The Draft Budget which is in the tone of US$562.2 million and was submitted to the Legislature through the office of the House Speaker by Finance Minister Samuel Tweah last Wednesday. The Draft Budget, Minister Tweah said, was crafted under “extreme difficulty”. “The President has managed to rationalize the fiscal space. We have to be able to move a good share of resources to pro-poor activities.…

Saclepea, Nimba County – Police in Nimba County have launched a search for a 35-year-old man who allegedly used acid to kill his Wife. Fugitive Marcus Ben, a resident of Lesonnoh Burtian Town in District Number eight, Nimba County, is on the run after allegedly killing his 32-year-old wife, Yar Blemie for refusing to have sex with him. The couple had four children and lived together for several years, community members said. Saye Zeah, younger brother of the deceased, said the suspect had threatened to kill his wife on several occasions. She had informed her in-laws, who reside in Flumpa…

Report by Kennedy L. Yangian, [email protected] Monrovia – A 90-year-old woman is planning to resist any attempt by the Supreme Court to evict her from a parcel of land located in the Saye Town Community in Sinkor – a suburb of Monrovia. Annie Constance claims she was not accorded justice by the high court. “I will not leave from on this land except they bring bulldozer to remove me from my own property that I and my late husband bought in 1965,” said Constance after losing the case over the disputed land. The mother of five lost the case at…

Monrovia – Defense for Children International (DCI-Liberia) says her advocacy against child marriage, sexual violence and economic exclusion of girls and young women in the country is yielding positive results in the targeted communities. According to the organization’s Advocacy and Communication Officer Love S. Kolenky, several communities in rural Montserrdo and Bomi Counties now have by-laws and regulations tackling traditional practices that have been impeding the rights of vulnerable women and girls in these areas. “Our campaign has awaken communities in rural Bomi and Montserrado Counties to take action realizing that violence against women and young girls strains the development …