Author: Mae Azango

MONROVIA – For the first time, thirty-three young leaders from the Youth Climate Change Initiative of Liberia (YCCIL), West African Youth Network Liberia (WAYNL) and the Liberia National Student Union (LINSU) have organized a National Climate Youth Summit to showcase climate solutions and engage with national leaders in the country.

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Street vendors in central Monrovia gather every morning to fellowship, seek God’s intervention before beginning their business day Monrovia – Martha Roberts recalls an incident she says put her in her tracks. “One of my friends told me that one morning when she came out to put down her market, she saw a broken raw egg on the exact spot where she sells, claiming that it was a spiritual attack by the enemy to stop people from buying her market. So, for this reason, she they always have morning devotions before opening their markets.”

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Ms. Ayesha Jammeh, niece of former Gambian President Yaya Jammeh Banjul, The Gambia – Ayesha Jammeh was only 13-years-old when her uncle, the former Gambian president Yaya Jammeh, ordered the killing of her father who was also his very own brother. Ayesha never imagined she would have a front-row seat her father’s executioner’s public confession. Report by Mae Azango, Senior New Narratives Correspondent “I thought after all these years I was healed from the trauma of my father’s death, but when Omar A. Jallow, the Jungler who killed him, took the stand to explain, he had no remorse at all. …

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Monrovia – Gender Minister Piso Saydee Tarr has backed the removal of the aspect on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) from the Domestic Violence Bill. The controversial bill, which, according to the Gender Minister, was recently signed into law on August 13, 2019 by President George Manneh Weah, sparked argument in the country when the FGM component was removed from the Bill before it was passed into law by the legislature. 

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Left to right: Paul Sky Berry, Teddy Foday-Musa and Mohammad Sirhan Monrovia – The Faith Foundation, a Liberian-based charitable organization, is set to begin a three-day leadership seminar from September 2nd to the 4th, and it which will be addressed by international lecturers.  

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