Author: Alpha Daffae Senkpeni

Monrovia – US Ambassador Christine Elder has called for concerted efforts by all branches of the Liberian government to improve the country’s status on the Watch List ranking of the State Department’s annual Trafficking in Persons (TIPs) Report.

Monrovia – The National Oil Company of Liberia is seeking both commercial and regulatory powers in the 2019 Amendment to the New Petroleum Law, a source close to the process has told FrontPageAfrica.

Monrovia – Liberia faces “significant risks” of being delisted as a member of the International Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (IEITI) if “significant corrective measures” are not implemented in a timely manner, two officials of international transparency body have warned.

Monrovia – Mr. Gabriel Nyenkan, the head of the secretariat of Liberia Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (LEITI), is expected to face more pressure as a team of experts from EITI international concludes a two-day visit to the country on Wednesday, September 4.

Monrovia – At least 21 people have died from Lassa fever in Liberia this year as the Ministry of Health declared an outbreak of the disease on Friday, August 30 in Monrovia. One health worker, who was a laboratory technician, is amongst the dead.

Monrovia – Liberia’s Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor has broken silence on the ongoing debate about the harmonization of government employees’ salaries, calling for “special preference” to be given the health and educational sectors.

Monrovia – Liberia’s Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor has praised the conduct of the second annual Emmet Dennis National Scientific Conference, saying that it is being held “to lift up the profile of Liberia” and “allow various scientific works that have taken place over the years to be discussed and recommendations made.”

Sen. Oscar Cooper is used to receiving criticisms from political opponents for his ties to rebel forces loyal to former president Charles Taylor during the Liberian Civil War The future of a war crimes court lies in the hands of lawmakers. In Part II of this two-part series, Alpha Daffae Senkpeni speaks to two Margibi lawmakers who lived on two different sides of the frontline about their reasons for supporting a war crimes court. Monrovia – Oscar Cooper and Ivar Jones are lawmakers who are shaping the future of Margibi County. But they both played different roles in its bloody…

Monrovia – What seemingly looked like a redux of 2017 Presidential elections was averted Saturday, August 24, after a party in the Montserrado County’s District #15 by-election dispute pulled the plug on an appeal to the Supreme Court of Liberia. Abu Kamara’s decision to abandon his appeal to the high court has now set the stage for the National Elections Commission to decide the new date for the conduct of the re-run of 20 polling places. Earlier, it looked like Liberia’s most populous county was headed for a long haul after the NEC’s Board of Commissioners affirmed a previous decision…

Monrovia – Attempts to overtake the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) in Montserrado County over the last decade have been an elusive political venture until the table turned and the CDC mounted the ruling position.