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BFF President Augustine Arkoi, Madam Rita Arkoi & Rev. T Wleh Gaye, Board Chair of Saclepea Joint Christian Fellowship pose with Married Couples at the Saclepea Refuge Baptist Church Monrovia – The Better Future Foundation (BFF), in collaboration with Family Federation for World Peace, and with support of pastors and grassroots churches has conducted an Honoring of Marriage & Family Seminar in Saclepea, Nimba County.

BUCHANAN ─ The newly accredited British Ambassador to Liberia, His Excellency Neil Bradley, and a senior delegation from the United States Embassy in Monrovia led by US Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission Director Sara R. Walter, have concluded visits to the ArcelorMittal Liberia Concession and mining operations in Yekepa, Nimba and Buchanan Grand Bassa Counties. Ambassador Bradley and the U.S. delegation were received by ArcelorMittal Liberia’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Scott Lowe and senior executives of the company during the visits. British Ambassador’s visit to Tokadeh The British Ambassador’s field trip to Tokadeh also included an aerial view of…

MONROVIA – The Board of Governors of the Central Bank of Liberia (CBL), during its November 17, 2020 sitting, approved to retain the monetary policy rate of 25.0 percent in the previous quarter.

The Court ordered Conakry to pay 83,238 euros (or its equivalent in Guinea Francs) to beneficiaries of each of the six murdered persons, amounting to 2.6 million euros. The Court also mandated the Guinean government to compensate 15 other victims with about 3.6 billion Guinea Francs in total, an equivalent of 312,144 euros. Monrovia – The Mano River Union Civil Society Natural Resources Rights and Governance Platform (MRU CSO Platform), has described as a monumental victory against impunity, the November 10, 2020 guilty verdict against the Guinean Government at the ECOWAS Court over the massacre of villagers, in the Zogota community, Southeastern  Guinea…

MONROVIA – The Government of Liberia has been urged to ensure that public education is made inclusive, accessible, and affordable as well as gender sensitive and responsive in the best interest of the people of Liberia rather than privatization of the sector.

“This is the third time in a row that the hearing of the victims we represent is postponed, despite the fact that our clients had confirmed their desire to come to Switzerland and testify.” – Alain Werner The Swiss Federal Criminal Court announced that the Alieu Kosiah trial will be partially postponed until the beginning of 2021 – tentatively in February.

MONROVIA – Living without a toilet endangers the health and livelihoods of the world’s most vulnerable people – and the risk of living without proper sanitation increases as climate change bites.

Session with the lead facilitator, Jonathan Chapman, Media Specialist of WaterAid UK through a visual presentation MONROVIA – A One Day Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Journalists Training designed to enhance WASH reportage into mainstream Media, has successfully ended in Monrovia, Liberia.

Monrovia – The Government of Liberia (GoL) represented by members of the Inter-Ministerial Concession Committee (IMCC) namely, the Liberia Revenue Authority (LRA), National Investment Commission (NIC), Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MOCI), and Ministry of Finance and Development Planning (MFDP) have signed a Framework Agreement for the development, installation, and operations of an Electronic Fiscal Device System (EFDS) within Liberia. 

MONROVIA – National Civil Society Watch of Liberia (NACSWL) celebrates the president for the creation of the office of Islamic advisor to the president. Acknowledges that such creates balanced access to the presidency of Liberia for the two major religions of the Country; Islam and Christianity. Calls on the first occupant of the post, Sheik Usmane T. Jalloh to serve for the benefit of peace and a reconciled society.