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AFRICA’S OLDEST democratic nation – last week banned the practice, which involves removing part or all of a girl’s outer sexual organs. IN A GROUNDBREAKING declaration made on the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, Chief Zanzar Zanzan, head of the Traditional Council of Liberia, with the authorization of 15 paramount Chiefs across Liberia declared, “By the power vested in me by all the Paramount Chiefs of the 15 political divisions in Liberia and signed by myself… FGM is banned in Liberia.”

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LATE LAST MONTH, the National Elections Commission, the body tasked with conducting elections for all elective public offices, and administering and enforcing all elections laws throughout the Republic of Liberia, released a revised timetable for the upcoming Presidential and Legislative elections, emphatically declaring that Presidential and Legislative Campaign period will begin on August 5 and end on October 8.”

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TODAY, PRESIDENT George Weah will deliver his final Annual Message for the mandate given him by Liberians in the 2017 elections. His victory in that election was popular, as the people yearned and hoped for a better change. AS PRESIDENT WEAH delivers his last Annual Message for that mandate, he must be reminded of this mandate and the two major promises he made to the Liberian people – fighting corruption and Liberianizing the economy. He promised that Liberians would not be spectators in their own economy.

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LAST THURSDAY, the Liberia National Police made great strides in tracking down a cache of military-grade weapons loaded onto to container and shipped to Liberia. THE ARMS AND AMMUNITIONS, according to the Inspector General of Police, Col. Patrick Sudue, were quite sufficient to destabilize Monrovia. He disclosed at a press conference that their preliminary investigation enabled them to arrest the lady who was to receive the container, the custom broker and another man who was caught hiding in the ceiling of the consignee’s home, where additional weapons were found.

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LOSING A CHILD is every parent’s nightmare and even if one has had the awful experience, you can never adequately feel the pain that another grieving parent is going through. THIS IS WHY we at FrontPageAfrica extend our deepest sympathy to the family of Willvette Angel Nagbe, the 13-year-old Ricks Institute student who died while on a field trip on December 12.

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THE LIBERIA BANK for Development and Investment finds itself in a rather precarious position, just days after its Chief Executive Officer/President Deo Z. Delaney was forced to step down over alleged inaccuracies in his education credentials. PRIOR TO HIS RESIGNATION, Delaney was reportedly on to something, at least as far at the International Monetary Fund is concerned. THE WORLD monetary body, which supports economic policies that promote financial stability and cooperation amongst its 190 members, issued a word of caution late last week, in a letter to both the Governor of the Central Bank, Aloysious Tarlue and Minister of Finance,…

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COINCIDING WITH THE International Anti-Corruption Day last Friday, December 9th, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), announced sanctions on a diverse array of over 40 individuals and entities that are connected to corruption or human rights abuse across nine countries. IN THE BUILDUP TO Friday’s announcement of yet more sanctions from the US Treasury Department, anticipation was high in Liberia, the more sanctions were underway for the George Weah-led government.

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