Author: Mae Azango

Monrovia – The mother of a 15-year-old raped and impregnated by her stepfather is in police custody.

Monrovia – Senator Nyonblee Karnga-Lawrence(Liberty Party, Grand Bassa) has urged the Ministry of Justice, the Female Lawyers Association of Liberia, Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Protection and all institutions interested in the rights of children to treat the rape and impregnation of a 15-year-old girl in Lofa County with the utmost urgency in sending a powerful message to would-be rapists and abusers of children’s rights.

Caldwell – Not many people are lucky to reach 70, 80 or 90 years. But great-grandmother, Winnie Hodge Howe is blessed to have celebrated her 100 birth anniversary on May 14, 2020.

Monrovia – Three non-profit organizations have donated several assorted items to disadvantaged Liberians, including the blinds. Their donation comes at a time when Liberians have been told to stay home in order to keep safe and stop the transmission of the Covid-19.

Monrovia – While others are putting their talents to use by making masks to cover noses and mouths so as to prevent people from contracting the coronavirus, 94-year-old Bade Baker Harris Nance isn’t sitting idly, too.

Monrovia – Deputy Minister for Codification at the Ministry of Justice, Cllr. Nyenati Tuan, is being accused of using his position to thwart justice from three kids he allegedly injured when his vehicle ran into a motorbike carrying the children on March 1, 2020. Cllr. Tuan is also being accused of abandoning the kids, while their poor mother struggles to medicate them.

(UPDATE: April 20, 2020—Story is updated to reflect nine more coronavirus cases and adds an additional paragraph on the denial of the gold rush by the Ministry of Mines and Energy.) Monrovia – Artisanal miners are flocking to Belleh Yallah in Gbarpolu County amid a new gold rush there, with mining authorities fearing an outbreak of the novel coronavirus in the western mining hub.    

Tappita, Nimba County – Health authorities in Nimba County, mainly at the Jackson Fiah Doe Memorial Hospital, recently announced that a 42-year-old man died on April 3, 2020 in Tappita, Lower Nimba County was a result of the Covid-19. The passing of the man, put Nimba on the record for a case of the virus with other counties including Montserrado and Margibi.

Monrovia – As the fight to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease in Liberia intensifies, three teenagers, under the banner “Girls Ending Covid-19”, have voluntarily began carrying on awareness in seven communities within Du Port Road area in Paynesville. By Mae Azango, [email protected] Michelle Gwaikolo 17 (founder), Kate S. Faraj 15 (co-founder), and Kormassa Vankpannah 17 (co-founder), told FrontPageAfrica recently that they had spoken with Liberians residing in Cowfield Last Junction, Shara, Mickie Gray, Duport Road Market Communities, etc. According to them, they have reached over 40 homes, entertainment centers, intellectual centers, among others. “We are using the government-mandated…

Monrovia – The last thing 16-year-old Diana Kollie, not her name, expected was to be raped by a police officer, Robert Harrison of the Criminal Investigations Division at Zone 9, Depot 4, Jacob Town Rehab. She had been placed behind bars at the station on allegation of phone theft.