Author: Press Release

Monrovia – The Government of Liberia (GOL) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) have today signed an agreement for a $3.872 million US dollar grant that will finance the upgrade of the payment infrastructure and system of the Central Bank of Liberia. The AfDB Board of Directors approved the financing on 17 March 2023, building on the 2016 payment development project the AfDB previously supported to upgrade the Automated Cheque Processing and Clearing House and Real Time Gross Settlement System. The support also strengthens the CBL`s primary data center and recovery sites. The effort goes to stand up the payment…

Voinjama City, Lofa County – The Fund Advisory Committee (FAC) of the Liberia Agribusiness Commercialization Fund (LACF) at the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA), in collaboration with the World Bank (WB) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), has embarked on a four-day maiden field assessment mission.

MONROVIA – The Economic Development Training Program (EDTP) organized a one-day workshop aimed at empowering Liberian businesswomen, who are engaged into small and medium-scale businesses. Ms. Louisa Walker, a representative of EDTP, said the economy depends on the women. “Women know how best to manage. They think ahead of their male counterparts. The men actually think about now, but the women think about the future. So, if we are going to develop as a country, we need the women to be empowered and we all need to put hands around each other.” The EDTP, which is being led and sponsored…

Bong County became the first County to elect a nine-member County Council to decide on development projects funded under the County and Social Development Fund (CSDF) in the County’s 13 electoral districts.

Reports from Yekepa, Nimba say workers of ArcelorMittal Liberia who shut down the company’s operations and seized its assets for over a week in an illegal strike, have now agreed to end the industrial action and return to work by Friday, May 19, 2023.

Monrovia – ActionAid Liberia (AAL), in partnership with Youth Alive Liberia (YAL), Liberian Women Empowerment Network (LIWEN) is launching a two-year project funded by the European Union titled ‘Strengthening the Resilience of Key Population and Human Rights Defenders in Liberia.’ The two-year project aims at advancing the protection of Human Rights Defenders as well as disadvantaged and vulnerable groups in Bong, Margibi, Grand Bassa, and Montserrado counties.

Zorzor, Lofa County – On May 11, 2023, the Alternative Youth Radio (AYR), Liberia’s first youth radio in Zorzor City, Lofa County officially dedicated its cutting-edge multimedia complex, which cost US$40,000.00

MONROVIA – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of Liberia, in collaboration with the Liberia National Police (LNP) and the Ministry of Mines and Energy, will today begin a three-week nationwide rigorous environmental compliance monitoring across the country.

The Board of Directors of the United Nations Capital Development Fund-Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility (UNCDF-LoCAL) has appointed Prof. Wilson K. Tarpeh, executive director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of Liberia as its ambassador.

MONROVIA – The new Collaborating Political Parties would be holding its convention in Ganta, Nimba County, where the standard bearer, Alexander B. Cummings, is likely to name his vice standard bearer for the October elections.