Author: Press Release

MONROVIA – Africa’s leading financial institution, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, has announced its audited half year financial results for the half year ended June 30, 2021, showing impressive growth across all major income lines and performance indicators.

MONROVIA – Over forty-two thousand 12th graders across Liberia are today, September 10, 2021, writing the West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE).

MONROVIA – Amid new cases of the coronavirus disease, the health NGO Refuge Place International (RPI) has stepped up its support aimed at buttressing the government’s effort in tackling the virus with the donation of 15 factory-made oxygen concentrators to treatment units.

MONROVIA — Despite his best efforts to halt and reverse the repeated violations of the Framework Agreement by Political Leaders of the Collaboration of Political Parties (CPP), the Political Leader of the Alternative National Congress (ANC), Mr. Alexander B. Cummings, was forced to walk out of a meeting of Political Leaders. In spite of Mr. Cummings’ request for one, today’s meeting was convened without an agenda.

The expansion project includes the construction of a new concentration plant and the substantial expansion of mining operations, with the first concentrate expected in late 2023, ramping up to 15 million tonnes per annum (‘mtpa’) MONROVIA — The Government of the Republic of Liberia and ArcelorMittal (‘the Company’), the world’s leading steel company, today signed an amendment to the Mineral Development Agreement (‘MDA’) which paves the way for the expansion of the Company’s mining and logistics operations in Liberia.

London – Maritime Commissioner Eugene Lenn Nagbe has called for reforms to the organizational and operational structures of International Maritime Organization (IMO) in order to reflect the significant roles played by Liberia and other major maritime nations at the IMO. 

New York – The Executive Director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Ms. Henrietta Fore, has hailed Liberia as a model for negotiating the acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccines through the COVID-19 Global Access (COVAX) facility. The COVAX facility is a global initiative for the procurement and supply of COVID-19 vaccines, with the goal of ensuring that every country, even the poorest, has equitable access to the vaccines. Executive Director Fore highlighted that the Government of Liberia showed great leadership in setting up and finishing negotiations and paperwork for the acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccines, as well as training…

MONROVIA – The Center for Media Studies and Peacebuilding (CEMESP) on Tuesday, September 7, 2021, conducted intensive training for female bloggers and journalists on ‘Women’s Rights Online Issues’ in Liberia.

Monrovia – Delegates at a gender stakeholders’ conference are reviewing and strengthening an existing Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on women’s political participation, signed between the National Elections Commission (NEC) and nineteen (19) political parties in 2017.

MONROVIA – Liberia’s premier democracy advancement institution, Naymote Partners for Democratic Development releases it seventh citizens’ perception report on the quality of governance in Liberia. https://tinyurl.com/uhec6kt link to full report.