PUL President  Kanubah Departs For Rwanda On Transitional Justice Study Tour

(Monrovia, 1 October 2026): The President of the Press Union of Liberia (PUL), Julius Kanubah, on Thursday, October 1 departed Liberia for Rwanda as part of a high-level study tour on transitional justice.

Kanubah joins a delegation of transitional justice actors undertaking engagements on Rwanda’s post-conflict reconciliation, justice, accountability, and social cohesion processes.

The visit is fully funded by the Office for the Establishment of War and Economic Crimes Court for Liberia (OWECC-L).

OWECC-L’s Executive Director, Cllr. Dr. Jallah Barbu, who traveled on 24 September, is already in Rwanda as part of the advance delegation.

While in Rwanda, the PUL President will collaborate with staff of OWECC-L, the Liberia National Police, and a Rwandan consultant in a series of meetings with government institutions, civil society, media, academia, international development partners, victims and survivors’ groups, as well as the Liberian community in Rwanda.

The mission seeks to draw lessons from Rwanda’s transitional justice experience and to explore avenues for Rwanda’s support in establishing and operationalizing Liberia’s War and Economic Crimes Court and National Anti-Corruption Court.

The study tour comes at a time when legislative efforts toward the creation of the War and Economic Crimes Court are intensifying.

As a public-interest institution, the PUL has consistently championed transitional justice mechanisms to ensure accountability for perpetrators of Liberia’s armed conflict, while advancing reconciliation, national healing, support for victims and survivors, and responsible journalism.

During Kanubah’s absence, PUL Vice President Beatrice Tetee Sieh will serve as Acting President, with full authority to preside over the Union in accordance with Article 7, Section 2 of the PUL Constitution.

Meanwhile, the PUL President will be away from 1–11 October 2026.