Author: Rodney Sieh

Next week, Michele Obama and her daughters, Malia and Sasha, will travel to Liberia to promote an issue close to the First Lady’s heart – providing educational access and opportunities to young women and girls in countries where such access is severely limited.

The World Bank Organization describes poverty in this way: “Poverty is hunger. Poverty is lack of shelter. Poverty is being sick and not being able to see a doctor. Poverty is not having access to school and not knowing how to read. Poverty is not having a job, is fear for the future, living one day at a time,” among others. Despite the many definitions, one thing is certain; poverty is a complex societal issue. No matter how poverty is defined, it can be agreed that it is an issue that requires everyone’s attention.  It is important that all members…

Monrovia- The 3rd Forum on China-Africa Media Cooperation has taken place in Beijing, China, with a declaration to strengthen media cooperation and exchanges between China and Africa to support plans of the China-Africa Cooperation.

Monrovia-The guest speaker at the sixteenth commencement convocation of the African Methodist Episcopal University (AMEU), the Rt. Rev. David R. Daniels, Jr., presiding Prelate 15th Episcopal District, AME Church has told graduates of the AME University that there is no limit to success and therefore as they walk from the walls of the University, they should not limit their expectations but rather continue the journey of success.

Monrovia- Armed Forces of Liberia  (AFL) personnel Melvin Tolbert who resigned from the army recently will spend his first night out of the Edward Binyah  Kesselly Barrack detention center Thursday, where he has been detained for the past  22-days.

Monrovia-FrontPageAfrica has reliably learned from well-placed Unity Party sources that Dr. Toga McIntosh has decided to abandon his quest to contest for the standard bearer ship of the Unity Party to eventually pursue his dream in another political institution.

Monrovia-In the wake of his continuous silence and lack of information on his whereabouts since the Liberian Government declared Mr. Simeon Freeman, the political leader of the Movement For Progressive Change, MPC, free and no longer a wanted man, the opposition party has broken silence.

Monrovia-Since the indictment against Speaker Alex J. Tyler by the Special Presidential Task Force for his alleged role in a bribery saga reported by Global Witness, there has been attempts to oust the Speaker spearheaded by some of his fellow lawmakers.

In continuation of efforts to support rural public schools, a shipment of 10 cartoons of donated textbooks and instructional materials, which recently arrived from the United States, has been presented to the Tokpaipolu Public Elementary School in Tokpaipolu, Salala District, Bong County.

Monrovia –  As part of preparations for the physical collection of small arms and light weapons within selected communities in the country, the National Commission on Small Arms (LiNCSA) in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has conducted a three-day refresher training for state security forces in Liberia.