Author: Rodney Sieh

Monrovia – Information gathered by FrontPageAfrica indicates that Ghana is slated to be the venue for the hosting of Liberia’s long-awaited War and Economic Crimes Court. Perpetrators from the country’s 14-year brutal fratricidal conflict will be tried and if convicted serve their sentences in the Ghanaian seaport town of Winneba. Winneba is a fishing town and capital of the Effutu Municipal District in the Central Region of Southern Ghana and lies 140 kilometers East of Cape Coast.

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One month into the Boakai presidency, the Koung risk is becoming a major debacle for Boakai. Multiple aides to the Boakai inner circle tell FrontPageAfrica that the once unassuming businessman and political amateur is flexing his muscles in ways no one saw coming. Monrovia – Willie Tolbert stumbled upon the Presidency by accident. When then Speaker of the House of Representatives, B.G. Freeman was selected by the True Whig Party to replace Vice President Clarence Lorenzo Simpson, heading into the election of 1951, Freeman died suddenly, and was replaced by Representative William R. Tolbert, Jr. Freeman’s death gave rise to…

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Monrovia – In April 2011, two former humanitarian aid workers were each sentenced to 142 months in prison for defrauding the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) of roughly $1.9 million that was meant to assist impoverished people and towns in Liberia. Efforts to have a third man, Daniel Johnson, the recently nominated Secretary General of the Roberts Flight Information Region, did not materialize after Judge Boima Kontoe denied a request by the United States government to have Johnson extradited to the US to face trial.

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Defense Minister Prince Johnson is out. Monrovia – President Joseph Boakai has accepted with immediate effect the resignation of the recently confirmed Minister of National Defense, Prince C. Johnson. In a statement issued in Monrovia Monday, the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Liberia, said he has received and accepted a letter of resignation from Johnson. In his letter, the Minister of National Defense outlined his reasons for his action, noting that due to the current political and civil disturbances occasioned by the protest of women believed to be wives of servicemen, he has made the decision to…

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Monrovia – President Joseph Boakai’s decision to alter the setup of the Armed Forces of Liberia and the Ministry of National Defense has reportedly been dealt a setback with the resignation of the recently confirmed Minister of National Defense Prince Charles Johnson, FrontPageAfrica has learned. Johnson’s resignation come just days after wives of soldiers of the Armed Forces of Liberia staged road blockades and protests in the capital Monrovia and various parts of the country. Johnson, in a statement viewed by FrontPageAfrica says he is stepping down for the common good of the country and the institution he has served…

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Vice President Jeremiah Koung acknowledged to FrontPageAfrica Sunday that he run into Ghanaian billionaire businessman Ibrahim Mahama at a local hotel and mentioned that he was on his way to Nigeria and the Ghanaian millionaire offered him a ride to Accra, from where he will depart for Nigeria on Monday. Monrovia – Vice President Jeremiah Koung has categorically denied reports Sunday that he flew out of Monrovia Saturday afternoon on a private plane. The Vice President’s office posted photographs with the seal of his office boarding an Accra-Bound private plane. The VP explained that he was on his way to…

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FrontPageAfrica has been reliably informed that the Vice President Jeremiah Koung prevailed on the President late Wednesday to appoint Mr. Daniel Johnson, an accountant and former staffer at the International Republican Institute, who was once pursued by a United States District Court on charges of wire fraud and Theft of Property, as the new Secretary General of the Roberts Flight Information Region. Monrovia – Vice President Jeremiah Koung has reportedly misled President Joseph Boakai into making a rather controversial appointment, that is likely to bring international embarrassment to the Boakai-led government, particularly in regard to the government of the United…

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