Author: Mae Azango

Few days ago, the President of one of Africa’s prestigious higher learning institutions, Cuttington University (CU), granted this newspaper the opportunity to sit with her and lecture about activities at CU, her leadership style, education in Liberia and parents’ role in their child or children’s education and upbringing.

MONROVIA – Eleven-year-old Tracy, not her real name, never anticipated being kidnapped when she went out to sell along with other kids on September 15, 2022. The sounds of drums and sasa nearby increased the children’s curiosity to go and watch the Sande girls dancing, hence leading to their abduction.

MONROVIA – The Secretary General of the Civil Society Human Rights Advocacy Platform of Liberia Mr. Adama K. Dempster, has said the United States Ambassador-at-large for Global Criminal Justice, Madam Beth Van Schaack’s recent visit to Liberia has given hope to war victims, Human Rights community and the Liberians as a whole.

GBARNGA, Bong County – The Kpatawee Waterfalls, one of Liberia’s beautiful tourism sites located in Gbarnga Bong County, is gradually turning into a resort area to accommodate visitors.  Visiting Kpatawee over the weekend, little huts built with palm thatches and bamboo had beds in them. Some had double beds while others had single beds, and self-contained bathrooms with running water and showers. The concrete floors in the huts were designed with palm kernels.

MONROVIA – “Rice is sold at L$3,500 [US$23.00]. The businessman told me before I can buy a bag of rice, I must buy L$1000 (US$6.50) worth of other items that I do not need. Can you imagine that?” said Elder Dee Zoe Lake, via mobile phone.

Bong County – Cuttington University, Liberia’s second oldest institution of higher learning, will host a National Bicentennial Forum on the theme: “Historical, Cultural and Socio-Economic Perspectives of Liberia’s Bicentennial (1822-2022).” The forum will be held on the institution’s Suacoco Campus from November 16-19, 2022.

Isreal Samuel Roberts declaring that he is now clean after being hooked on drugs for eight years; and Roberts narrating how he and others used to be taking the harmful substances MONROVIA – Israel Samuel Roberts, a former drug addict, but now the class president of the New Life Recovery Center in Marshall, Margibi County, said he was hooked on narcotics for eight years, and used to smoke “coco” and heroin also known as “Italian White” or “Tai-girl”. But he has now been “clean” for 12 months without any narcotic substances in his system.

Liberia is along with Malawi and Haiti to benefit from a Partner in Health and the World Health Organization’s medical program, called the Pen-Plus Strategy. The aim of the Strategy is to ensure Africans living with severe non-communicable diseases (NCDs) like Type 1 Diabetes, Rheumatic Heart Disease, and Sickle Cell diseases will have access to lifesaving medicines and care.

Monrovia – If Liberia does not stop natural resources exploitation, all the country’s natural resources will soon be depleted, warned former Lands, Mines, and Energy Minister, Dr. Eugene H. Shannon. According to him, finance resources like iron ore, gold, hydrocarbon, and diamond are natural resources that have limits and can reach a point of no return.

MONROVIA – Hundreds of Liberian school-aged girls and young women stand the risks of being initiated into the Sande Society, also known as the bush school, because, traditional leaders of Margibi County pledged to continue their ancestors’ traditional heritage.