June 19, 2013
- LIBERIA: 300 Sierra Leonean Refugees to be ‘naturalized’
- Liberia: Committee wants Lawmaker Expelled
- Liberia: UNHCR launches birth registration for Ivorian refugee kids
- Garbage Problem Affects Many in Liberia’s Leading Commercial District
- Liberia Gov't Refutes Report of Rampant Corruption in Public Sector
Liberia News
Liberia Police Flog Journalist, Third in One Week
December 20, 2011A Liberian Journalist has been flogged by police officers in the capital Monrovia.
Liberia Opposition CDC Poised to Negotiate with Gov’t
December 19, 2011The Lead Opposition Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) says it still in negotiations with the Unity Party of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on finding a political solution to problems arising from the just ended Legislative and Presidential Elections.
Armed Robbery Accounts for Bulk of Violence in Liberia - Report
December 16, 2011The Liberia Armed Violence Observatory Group (LAVO) has released its first report on armed violence, indicating that armed robbery accounts for the bulk of violence in the country.
Liberia: Sirleaf appeals for peace, joint food project yields success
December 15, 2011Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has returned home with her Nobel Peace Prize, describing it as an appeal to the Liberian people to see the future based on peace and reconciliation.
At the same time, amidst concerns of a looming food crisis in West and Central Africa, the Liberian government and United Nations agencies have announced a success story of a joint agricultural project, which has benefitted tens of thousands of people.
Protestors burn Norway flag, Liberians split over Sirleaf’s Nobel Peace Prize
December 12, 2011Liberian police have arrested and detained three persons, after they burnt Norway’s flag and stormed the European Union headquarters in Monrovia, protesting against the awardiing of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf.
Liberia:Johnson-Sirleaf dedicates Nobel Prize to women of Africa
December 10, 2011Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is today, Saturday receiving the Nobel Peace Prize along with Liberian woman peace activist Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen.
On the eve of the award ceremony, Johnson-Sirleaf said she was dedicating the prize to women of Liberia and Africa.
Liberia, Senegal To Let Women Pass On Citizenship
December 9, 2011Liberia and Senegal have pledged to reform their laws so that women can confer citizenship on their children.
The West African nations made the pledge Thursday at a ministerial meeting in Geneva marking the 50th anniversary of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.
Hundreds of Ivorian refugees returning home from Liberia
December 6, 2011At the start of this year, there was an influx of tens of thousands of Ivorian refugees crossing over the border into neighbouring Liberia, in the wake of the post election violence in the Ivory Coast.
But as this year draws to a close and the fighting has stopped in that country, some of the refugees are voluntarily returning home.
Liberia disabled proving they're down but not out
December 5, 2011People with disabilities may be down or challenged but they are no way out.So it was over the weekend, when the disabled community in Liberia joined their colleagues around...
"I think there has to be some responsibility,"--Nun on Liberia police action
November 28, 2011“I think there has to be some responsibility taken,” says Liberian Catholic Nun, Sister Mary Laurene Browne, the head of the independent panel that investigated the November 7 violent clashes between the national police and supporters of the main opposition party, CDC.
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