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Julie Weah, Executive Director of the Foundation for Community Initiatives (FCI) speaks at the launch of the P3CL in Monrovia Monrovia – A civil society organization, the Foundation for Community Initiatives (FCI), has begun a project to assist rural communities in Liberia to legalize their customary ownership of their lands. The Protection of Customary Collective Community Land Rights (P3CL) project, which began since January this year and will end in December next year, targets 24 communities in Bong, Grand Bassa, Lofa, River Cess, Nimba and Sinoe Counties. The project is valued at US$1,999,704.16 with funding from an international civil society…

A boy passes by a palaver hut erected at a mass grave in Foya, Lofa County where some 150 people killed by ULIMO were buried/James Harding Giahyue Foya, Lofa County – Mary Ndominin, now in her 50s, will never forget that day in September 1994 when a ULIMO commander aliased “Ugly Boy” killed her husband and ate his corpse. Rebels of the United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy seized Saah Ndominin, tied him up by passing a wire through a hole they drilled through the veins at the back of his thighs, took him at the center of Foya…

The five suspects the have charged and sent to court Monrovia – The Liberian National Police (LNP) has announced that five persons have been sent to court in relation to the murder of Liberian International footballer Theo Weeks’ mother, Mrs. Lydia Lewis Weeks.

On Wednesday, April 24, on the Renaissance Communications Truth FM nighttime radio talk show, Nimba County Senator Prince Y. Johnson was heard saying among many things that the leader of the Alternative National Congress (ANC), Mr. Alexander B. Cummings, surreptitiously met with a Nimba lawmaker in the bush to concoct plans against President George Manneh Weah. Senator Johnson, who prides himself to be the ‘godfather’ of the county further issued a warning to folks in the ANC, telling them to consult with him (Prince Johnson) before they and their political leader, Mr. Cummings, can organize their political events in the…

MONROVIA – The National Youth League of the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) on Wednesday, April 24, 2019 gathered in their thousands to memorialize the fallen of Hon. Adolph A. Lawrence of District #15 Montserrado County. Speaking at the program held in district #15 Montserrado, Emmanuel M. Johnson the Secretary General of the Youth League of CDC expressed the party deepest condolences to the bereaved family , the people of district #15 and the illustrious partisans of the mighty Congress for Democratic Change for the loss of a statesmen and partisans of the mighty Coalition for Democratic Change. “We have…

New Castle, Delaware -The Association of Liberian Journalists in the Americas (ALJA) has extolled President George Manneh Weah, for his recent construction and donation of a modern edifice to the Female Journalists Association of Liberia (FeJAL) as its headquarters. ALJA says the gesture is unprecedented in the history of Liberia’s journalism. The Association thanked the President for the magnanimity. In a press release issued on April 24, 2019, ALJA also, commended Mr. Weah for the 10 seaters bus donated to FeJAL for operational purposes; and all those including Vice President Jewel Howard Taylor, who attended and contributed generously to the…

Monrovia – Celebrating its fifth year of existence, CelebrateLAB West Africa Conference ended Wednesday, April 24, with call for more commitment and budgetary allocation.

MONROVIA – The National Youth League of the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) on Wednesday, April 24, 2019 gathered in their thousands to memorialize the fallen of Hon. Adolph A. Lawrence of District #15 Montserrado County. Speaking at the program held in district #15 Montserrado, Emmanuel M. Johnson the Secretary General of the Youth League of CDC expressed the party deepest condolences to the bereaved family , the people of district #15 and the illustrious partisans of the mighty Congress for Democratic Change for the loss of a statesmen and partisans of the mighty Coalition for Democratic Change. “We have…

NEW YORK – Liberia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, His Excellency Ambassador Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah, Sr., says the Government of Liberia remains resolute in its ownership and leadership of the security and welfare of the State and its people; including women. Addressing the United Nations Security Council High-level Open Debate on “Women, Peace and Security: sexual violence in conflict” on Tuesday, April 23, 2019, Ambassador Kemayah said the Government through its new development framework, the Pro-Poor Agenda for Prosperity and Development (PAPD), aims to sustain peace and promote social cohesion, through increased participation of women in every field; an…

Bernard’s Farm – Liberia’s forestry authority has destroyed over 1,000 pieces of bushmeat it confiscated from marketers and hunters.