Author: Press Release

Ganta – The Government of Liberia, with support from UNDP, has completed training-of-trainers (TOTs) capacity building for local government personnel from the 15 counties, who will spearhead gender mainstreaming and gender-responsive planning and budgeting in line with the full implementation of the Local Government Act.

MONROVIA — The City Government of Monrovia has condemned in the highest term an unprovoked and unjustified attack on Monrovia City Mayor Jefferson T. Koijee by contaminated and unscrupulous individuals who were seen wearing paraphernalia of different kinds on the Capitol Hill Campus of the University of Liberia.

Strabourg – Representative Acarous Moses Gray has reiterated Liberia’s strong stance against any form of unconstitutional change of power in Sub-saharan Africa. Speaking on April 1, 2022 at the 41st joint parliamentary meeting of the African Caribbean Pacific States and the European Union taking place in Strasbourg, France, the Liberian lawmaker called on the body to take an “uncompromising” position on the matter.

MONROVIA – The Government of Liberia has announced new adjustments in the market price of petroleum products on the Liberian market. The change is in keeping with the government’s promise to review the cost of the commodity in the country whenever the price changes on the international market. GoL, through the Ministry of Commerce and Industries and the Liberia Petroleum Refinery Company, announced on Friday, April 1, 2022, that the price of gasoline has been reduced by sixty-one U.S. cents, while diesel fuel is reduced by 53 U.S. cents. The new costs of the products are therefore as follows: Gasoline…

MONROVIA – The University of Liberia (UL) in collaboration with Associates, Friends and Comrades, has memorialized its fallen Professor and former Dean of the Liberia College, Prof. Dr. Amos Claudius Sawyer at a day – long program on the University’s Capitol Hill campus.

MONROVIA – The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Liberia, H.E. Amb. Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah, Sr. has received the Letters of Accreditation from the new ECOWAS Country Representative to Liberia, Madam Josephine Nkrumah and the new United Nations Women Country Director, Madam Comfort Lamptey.

SOUTHEAST LIBERIA – The Ambassador of the United States of America, Michael A. McCarthy, along with USAID Country Director Jim Wright, visited three Southeastern counties, Grand Gedeh, River Gee, and Maryland, from March 21-25, 2022. Ambassador McCarthy, speaking of the purpose of his visit, said: “I am the U.S. Ambassador to Liberia, not just Monrovia, and as all of you know quite well, to know a country you must travel it and see it firsthand and get out of the capital.”

MONROVIA – The Monrovia Branch of the National Association of University Women (NAUW) Celebrates its Founders’ Day by identifying with several public schools.   

ACCRA — The Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) have entered into a new partnership to establish a transnational democracy solidarity network, to be known as West Africa Democracy Solidarity Network (“WADEMOS”). 

Monrovia – Patience Kaifa, 12, took her first trip to a bookstore on Tuesday, March 29 when she and 13 other children from four elementary schools boarded Logos Hope, the world’s largest floating book fair at the National Port Authority. The ship docked in Monrovia on March 19, 2022 and is expected to depart April 5, 2022.