Author: Press Release

MONROVIA – As a high point of training workshop hosted by Center for Media Studies and Peacebuilding, CEMESP with support from UNESCO, Journalists and civil society actors from four counties Bong, Nimba, Lofa and Grand Bassa have come out with story ideas, being hypothesis to test in unearthing various issues bordering on fraud and malfeasance.

MONROVIA – The Girls for Change Organization (GFC) Liberia in collaboration with the Foundation for Community Initiative (FCI) has launched the “Community Engagement in Sexual and Gender Based Violence Response Project”.

MONROVIA – The National Leadership of the Council of Patriots (COP) wants to make it abundantly, emphatically and categorically clear that it did not authorize the pronouncement made on August 31, 2020 in Monrovia by some members of its Youth Wing withdrawing their support from the Collaborating Political Parties (CPP).

MONROVIA – Last week, concerned Liberian citizens peacefully and passionately called attention to sexual- and gender-based violence (SGBV), protesting the high incidence of rape cases in Liberia, the impunity of perpetrators and the lack of support for survivors.

GANTA – Representatives of line Government of Liberia Ministries and Agencies are currently attending a five-day technical training workshop on climate change impacts and vulnerability assessment and project appraisal for adaptation projects in Ganta, Nimba County.

WASHINGTON DC – Liberia’s Ambassador to the United States of America, Canada and Mexico, His Excellency Ambassador George S.W. Patten Sr., was on Friday, August 21, 2020, discharged from the hospital and is recovering very well at home.

Atty. Kowo emphasized that the county treasury is an extension of the Ministry of Finance payment system, which is a successful model for decentralized budget execution. He also avowed that there is a need for extension to other counties, currently not part of the county treasury framework. MONROVIA – As the FY 2020/2021 commences, Liberia’s Comptroller and Accountant General (CAG) Janga A. Kowo and his technical team have concluded county treasuries visit to Grand Bassa, Nimba, Bong and Margibi counties, as part of efforts to inspect the county treasuries for budget execution.

The decision by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry was announced recently during a meeting with businesses that are involved in the Liberian used clothes industry. MONROVIA – The Liberian Government, through the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MOCI), has issued a 30-day ultimatum to non-Liberian owners of used clothes businesses across the country to regularize such business establishments or face the full weight of the law.

Monrovia – Following a vigorous evaluation of Liberian companies who applied to be prequalified for the country’s ongoing Offshore License Round for the Harper Basin, The Liberia Petroleum Regulatory Authority (LPRA) has pre-qualified seven Liberian Companies.

Since 2009, Rodney’s newspaper FrontPageAfrica has been heavily involved with Journalists for Human Rights, which trains journalists so they can use traditional reporting skills to cover human rights and other important issues in their communities. Toronto – Journalists for Human Rights is delighted to announce that journalist and author, Rodney D. Sieh, is our newest Ambassador.