Author: Mae Azango

MONROVIA – The Jallah family is appealing for help to save the life of their fourteen-year-old son, Stanley Jallah, who has been afflicted by a tumor on his right heel. Due to this condition, Stanley has become an outcast in his community, facing rejection and isolation. Mr. James Jallah, the boy’s father, shared that the problem began as a small knot on Stanley’s foot when he was just a year old, but it has progressively grown over the years.

MONROVIA – The National Chairman of the National Muslim Council of Liberia, Mr. Abraham Fumbah Sherif, has condemned the marriage of a 12-year-old girl to a 57-year-old man two weeks ago in Logan town.

Washington D.C. – The US Ambassador on Global Criminal Justice recently met with Adama Dempster of the CSO Platform in collaboration with Human Rights Watch and the Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA) in Washington DC. The meeting was attended by civil society, the human rights community, victims, members of Congress, senior Democrat and Republican Congressional staffers, and US State Department staff. The purpose of the meeting was to present a recent Resolution for the establishment of a War and Economic Crimes Court in Liberia.

MONROVIA – The Biometric Voter Registration in rural Liberia is raising eyebrows on the credibility of the exercise as several children have reportedly successfully registered and obtained their voting cards.

MONROVIA – Liberia, an ECOWAS member state where importers mostly experience high tariffs on goods, which lead to inflation of prices on the local market, is yet to ratify the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).

MONROVIA – Eggs, a major source of protein for the Liberian population, are now scarce and expensive. A single egg is sold at the same price as a cup of rice, and for many Liberian families, it is not worth buying an egg when they can buy a cup of rice for the same price – the nation’s staple food.

MONROVIA – Residents in Montserrado County on the first day of the National Election Commission (NEC) voter registration have complained about a slow start in the registration process, something they said could discourage the voting populace.

The family of the late Atty. John P. Namayan, who died in a tragic motor accident in Salala on the Gbarnga highway, is blaming St. Margaret Funeral Service for injecting their family member without a death certificate from a medical center signed by the deceased’s wife.

MONROVIA — “I am carrying the bag that has Rape written on it because, as a father of four girls, rape is a serious issue. Men that are raping our girls are insane and need to be treated as such. They should not be among good men like us because good men don’t rape. Therefore, they need to be treated as common criminals and treated harshly in order to send a message to other men who are raping our girls,” says Emmanuel Taplah.

MONROVIA – Eleven-year-old Tracy, the female genital mutilation (FGM) victim who was kidnapped and forcibly circumcised last September, may never be able to live in Kakata Margibi where she was tortured, as Kakata Margibi and nine other counties remain a no-go zone for female genital mutilation (FGM). The practice was recently banned only in Montserrado County.