Author: Rodney Sieh

Monrovia — The road to the certification and induction of Lofa County Senator-Elect Brownie J. Samukai, Jr., appears to be in limbo.

Monrovia – One hundred and fifty years after their patriarch, John Prince Porte, led his young family and joined 240 other citizens of Barbados, braving the cold and turbulent waters of the Atlantic, the story of the Porte emigration to Liberia has been recorded and published.

Bellinzona, Switzerland – Mr. Alieu Kosiah, former commander with the United Liberation Movement for Democracy in Liberia (ULIMO), faced questions Wednesday in his war crimes trial about allegations linking him to rape and the recruitment of a child soldier during his time with the rebel group.

“I’m not trying to be arrogant; I’m just suffering, I’ve been wounded. I’m speaking from that point of view that I did not capture Lofa.. . . It is difficult for me to understand what is happening to me. The case as I said, it is right in front of people. I believe that the prosecutor who spent a lot of time in this case, they know I was not involved in the capture of Foya, so why am I being kept in jail.” – Alieu Kosiah Bellinzona, Switzerland – Presenting himself as a wounded man, Alieu Kosiah vented his…

Bellinzona, Switzerland – Among the list of charges dogging Alieu Kosiah, is that at the height of the Liberian civil war, as a warlord with the United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy(ULIMO), he was involved in killing civilians, rape and the alleged eating pieces of a schoolteacher’s heart.

Bellinzona, Switzerland – Alieu Kosiah, a former commander with the United Liberation Movement of Liberia (ULIMO) on trial for war crimes during the Liberian civil war, fought back tears in court Friday as he admitted that he was a founding member of the organization accused of wreaking havoc on innocent Liberians.

Bellinzona, Switzerland – Alieu Kosiah let out a surprise outburst in his first day in court Thursday, proclaiming his innocence as his trial for war crimes got underway.

Bellinzona, Switzerland – History is being made in this Swiss town, the capital of the Canton of Ticino, where, thousands of miles away from the West African state of Liberia, a former warlord of the country’s brutal civil war will go on trial Thursday for war crimes committed during the height of the conflict.

Washington – Linda Thomas Greenfield will be President-elect Joe Biden’s point person at the United Nations. In nominating the former Ambassador to  Liberia Tuesday, Mr. Biden trumpeted her thirty-five years in the foreign service, particularly in Liberia where she was beloved as The People’s Ambassador”.

Monrovia – A FrontPageAfrica investigation supported by a damning communication from the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority, warning its Liberia counterpart about safety concerns regarding a new airline launched in Liberia by President George Manneh Weah last Friday, suggest that the recently-appointed head of the Liberia Civil Aviation Authority, Mr. Moses Kollie ignored serious red flags about the safety of the air carrier, Goldstar Air, which has now been transformed to Lone Star Air.