Author: Press Release

MONROVIA – Internal Audit Agency has begun a month-long training for heads and deputy heads of Internal Audit Functions assigned at Government Ministries and Agencies. The objective of the training is to enhance the skills and expertise of internal auditors to effectively and efficiently evaluate and recommend improvements to the effectiveness of governance, risk management, and control over public resources.

MONROVIA – Foreign Minister His Excellency Amb. Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah, Sr., on Tuesday, January 17, 2023 received in audience two Ambassadors-Designate to the Republic of Liberia, when the incoming Ambassadors paid Courtesy Call on him at his Foreign Ministry Office on the Capitol Hill, Monrovia.

MONROVIA – The First Lady of the Republic of Liberia Clar Marie Weah has donated a 30-seater bus to the Ministry of Transport in response to a request by the female employees of the Ministry. The white bus was handed over on Tuesday, January 17, 2023, during a brief program at the Transport Ministry Headquarters on Warren and Carey Streets in Central Monrovia. In a statement, Mrs. Weah disclosed that the gesture fulfilled her commitment to address the plight of the Transport Ministry women as they had passionately appealed during an engagement months ago. “During our discussions, you asked for…

KAKATA, Margibi County – Two weeks after he took a tour of Lofa County where he visited all nine districts to great reception, on Saturday, Dr. Moniba visited Kakata, Margibi, where he marched the principal streets with over a thousand people alongside him.

CAPITOL HILL, Monrovia – As the 54th Legislature embarks on its sixth and final sitting, House Speaker Bhofal Chambers has called for the members of both chambers to unite as they discharge their constitutional responsibilities.

Monrovia – The Lutheran Church in Liberia in collaboration with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Ministry of Labour have begun a Psychosocial Training Intervention for fifty women who returned from Oman.

It is with alarm that we – international NGOs with longstanding interests in Liberia – have learned of recent attempts by Liberia’s Courts to arrest key staff in the country’s Forestry Development Authority (FDA), who were carrying out their jobs verifying that timber exported from the country is legally sourced. This means it meets the requirements laid down in Liberia’s legal framework, ensuring that revenues are paid, and benefits shared with local communities. At 9.00am on Monday, 16 January one FDA employee is due to appear in court.

Monrovia – Monday, January 16, 2023, marks 17 years since H.E. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was sworn in as the first woman to be elected as president of an African country. In recognition of this momentous achievement, in 2016, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) designated January 16 as Human Rights Day, to be observed in the region annually in former President Sirleaf’s honor.

MONROVIA – Former Liberia international Jonathan ‘Boy Charles’ Sogbie, now Senator of River-Gee County, has distanced himself from the appointment of Ansu Keita as Lone Star coach. Boy Charles is a member of the famous George Weah 11. He was part of Lone Star squad that made Liberia’s first Nations Cup appearance in South Africa 1996.

ACCRA, Ghana – Liberia’s Fisheries Director General is recommending a regional approach to accelerating aquaculture development amongst member states of the Fisheries Committee for the West Central Gulf of Guinea (FCWC). “a regional approach would be more strategic in accelerating aquaculture development within FCWC member States”