| Witness Says, Foday Sankoh Wanted To Free Sierra Leoneans From Politicians |
| Sierra Leone’s top rebel leader waged a war on the West African country in 1991 to free the people from the misery of the country’s politicians, a Sierra Leonean witness testifying for Charles Taylor told Special Court for Sierra Leone judges today in The Hague. |
| Read More...(Source: AllAfrica News: Liberia - Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:11:03 GMT) |
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| Muslim Women On Civic Education |
| The United Muslim Women Advocacy and Empowerment Organization has concluded a one day Civic Education forum for local women in the Red Hill Community in Virginia, Monrovia. |
| Read More...(Source: AllAfrica News: Liberia - Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:44:49 GMT) |
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| JPC On GAC Back |
| In its Annual Situation Report on Liberia issued last week, the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission (JPC) casted doubt on the corruption picture of Liberia as presented by critics and adapted by some members of the international community in their dealings with Liberia. |
| Read More...(Source: AllAfrica News: Liberia - Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:44:47 GMT) |
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| NEC Assesses Rural Magistrate Offices |
| As part of pre-planning activities ahead of the 2011 Presidential and General elections, the National Elections Commission (NEC) and the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) have embarked on a joint week long assessment mission of NEC Elections Magistrate Offices in Central and South Eastern Liberia. |
| Read More...(Source: AllAfrica News: Liberia - Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:44:29 GMT) |
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| Fake Documents Surface At Fibank |
| Strange developments are said to be evolving at the First International Bank (FiBANK), management has said, in the form of a calculated counterfeiting of the bank's logo, vouchers and others by those said to be criminal-minded individuals, with the aim of tarnishing the bank's record. |
| Read More...(Source: AllAfrica News: Liberia - Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:35:34 GMT) |
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| Foreign Countries Prevented Taylor From Liberating Country |
| Foreign countries interfered in Charles Taylor's revolution in Liberia and prevented the former president from liberating his people, a witness in Mr. Taylor's defense told Special Court for Sierra Leone judges today. |
| Read More...(Source: AllAfrica News: Liberia - Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:58:48 GMT) |
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| Taylor Never Gave His Rebels Orders to Kill, Said Witness |
| A witness defending Charles Taylor today said he never heard of the former Liberian president giving orders to his own rebel forces to kill, rape, loot or burn people's houses, as alleged by prosecutors. |
| Read More...(Source: AllAfrica News: Liberia - Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:00:36 GMT) |
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| Taking Government to the People - an Eyewitness Account of State's South Eastern Experience |
| President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, along with members of her Cabinet, set out on Saturday, February 27, 2010, for a week-long visit to southeastern Liberia, an area which, like most parts of the country, is slowly recovering from its share of the 14-year civil conflict. |
| Read More...(Source: AllAfrica News: Liberia - Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:48:43 GMT) |
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| President Sirleaf Ends South Eastern Tour |
| President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf returned to the Liberian capital, Monrovia, on Saturday, March 6, following a weeklong visit to the southeastern counties of Maryland, River Gee and Grand Gedeh. The President also made stops in Nimba and Bong Counties. |
| Read More...(Source: AllAfrica News: Liberia - Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:23:52 GMT) |
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| Koina Salone Ex-Refugees' Houses Looted in Monrovia |
| Efforts by the governments of Sierra Leone and Liberia, the UNHCR and LRRRC towards the integration of former Sierra Leonean refugees who opted for a second home in Liberia have been dealt a serious blow by enemies of development. |
| Read More...(Source: AllAfrica News: Liberia - Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:42:36 GMT) |
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| Witness Says, Taylor Wanted Power To Empower Citizens |
| Charles Taylor wanted power to empower the Liberian people to develop their country, a defense witness told Special Court for Sierra Leone judges today. |
| Read More...(Source: AllAfrica News: Liberia - Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:20:37 GMT) |
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| Sirleaf Second Terms Gets Backing in Southeast |
| Tens of thousands of citizens in the southeastern counties of Maryland, River Gee and Grand Gedeh have pledged overwhelming support for the second term bid of incumbent President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, describing her as "the only messiah" to lead Liberia for now. |
| Read More...(Source: AllAfrica News: Liberia - Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:10:20 GMT) |
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| Calm Returns to Violence-Torn County |
| Latest report reaching the Informer Newspaper indicates that calm has returned to Lofa County following violence clashes last Friday which according to information resulted in the killing of five persons. |
| Read More...(Source: AllAfrica News: Liberia - Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:10:17 GMT) |
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| Peace Keepers are Not Bias, Says Mission Boss |
| The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General Madame Magrethe Ellen Loj has denied claims that Bangladeshi Contingent assigned in Lofa County were impartial during the riot that killed four persons leaving several wounded. |
| Read More...(Source: AllAfrica News: Liberia - Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:10:12 GMT) |
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| Witness Says Taylor Did Not Join 1999 Rebel Attack on Freetown |
| Neither Charles Taylor nor his security forces supported or participated in the Sierra Leonean rebel attack on the country's capital Freetown in 1999, the Special Court for Sierra Leone heard today as Mr. Taylor's first defense witness ended his testimony. |
| Read More...(Source: AllAfrica News: Liberia - Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:50:17 GMT) |
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| Police Officer Indicted for Stealing |
| Dennis W. Keleko, an officer of the Liberia National Police has been indicted for stealing a mini purse containing many valuables. |
| Read More...(Source: AllAfrica News: Liberia - Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:10:22 GMT) |
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| "Pres. Sirleaf Did Not Order Euro- ICC Contracts Aborted" |
| A clarification has been made on a Front Page Story published on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 Vol. 1 No. 15 of the New Dawn Newspaper, captioned; "Ellen Orders Euro Logging, ICC Contract aborted". Browsing through the story one would understand that the letter which the publisher refers to has been misinterpreted. |
| Read More...(Source: AllAfrica News: Liberia - Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:10:18 GMT) |
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| River Gee Gets First Immigration Office As Ellen Breaks Ground for Sports Complex |
| For the first time in its history, Liberia's newest, county, River Gee, now has a new immigration office. |
| Read More...(Source: AllAfrica News: Liberia - Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:10:16 GMT) |
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| Man 25 Indicted for Raping Seven Years Girl |
| A 25 year-old Timothy Sumo has been indicted for allegedly raping a 7-year old girl in the Peace Island Community in Congo Town. |
| Read More...(Source: AllAfrica News: Liberia - Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:10:14 GMT) |
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| Citizens Undergo Peace Building Training |
| The African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD) in collaboration with the Liberia Peace Building Office has launched a major peace building training workshop in Monrovia. The intensive training program which was launched Monday at the Cape Hotel in Mamba Point is expected to last up to Friday, March 5, 2010. The training is sponsored by ACCORD. |
| Read More...(Source: AllAfrica News: Liberia - Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:10:11 GMT) |
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| Firestone Launches Radio Station 89.5 FM |
| The Management of Firestone Liberia has officially opened its Radio station "Voice of Firestone Liberia." The official ceremony took place on Friday, February 26, 2010, on the compound of the Administration Building in Harbel, Margibi County. The new radio station was launched in a bid to disseminate unfolding events and developments within the concession area of the company and its surrounding communities. |
| Read More...(Source: AllAfrica News: Liberia - Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:10:09 GMT) |
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| Witness Claims Prosecutors Misrepresented His Statement |
| Charles Taylor's defense witness, Mr. Yanks Smythe has said that certain aspects of his written statement were misrepresented as prosecutors today pointed out inconsistencies in his written statement to defense lawyers and his oral testimony in court. |
| Read More...(Source: AllAfrica News: Liberia - Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:27:13 GMT) |
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| President Sirleaf Meets Market Women and Other Groups |
| In continuation of a southeastern marathon, President Ellen Johnson has been holding side consultations with the leadership of various social, ethnic, religious as well as professional associations everywhere she goes. |
| Read More...(Source: AllAfrica News: Liberia - Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:49:49 GMT) |
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| Witness says, "Nobody Is Lying" |
| A defense witness for Charles Taylor has dismissed prosecution assertions that his testimony is contradicting that of the former Liberian president, telling the court that neither him, nor Mr. Taylor, is lying to the judges. |
| Read More...(Source: AllAfrica News: Liberia - Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:58:01 GMT) |
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| President Sirleaf's South-Eastern Tour Kicks-Off |
| The President of the newly established William V. S. Tubman University in Harper, Maryland County, Dr. Elizabeth Davis-Russell, was on Saturday, February 27, inducted into office at a well-attended convocation ceremony attended by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and other senior Government officials. |
| Read More...(Source: AllAfrica News: Liberia - Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:11:18 GMT) |
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| Bar's Law and Order Conference Ends in Lawlessness |
| Several lawyers and judges who left Monrovia last weekend to attend their annual conference in Voinjama, Lofa County, under the theme: "law and order', found themselves caught in lawlessness with the conference cancelled. |
| Read More...(Source: AllAfrica News: Liberia - Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:20:11 GMT) |
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| Lofa Explodes - Religious and Tribal Tensions Burst in Flames and Death |
| Mobs of rival ethnic and religious gangs last week roamed the streets of Voinjama, Lofa County, killing, burning and looting as hundreds fled in scenes reminiscent of the war. |
| Read More...(Source: AllAfrica News: Liberia - Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:20:10 GMT) |
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| UNMIL's 'Bias' - Lofa Citizens Want Replacement |
| Lofa County political and social leaders have accused the Muslim Bangladeshi, Jordanian and Pakistani contingents of UNMIL stationed in Voinjama of backing Muslim gangs by protecting Islamic symbols while churches and other Christian symbols were destroyed. |
| Read More...(Source: AllAfrica News: Liberia - Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:20:09 GMT) |
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| Insults Result to One Burnt Alive, One Shot in the Head |
| An angry mob Saturday burnt to death a uniformed police officer believed to be a member of the Police Support Unit (PSU), after the officer shot one Preston Davis dead on the Capitol Bye-Pass. |
| Read More...(Source: AllAfrica News: Liberia - Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:20:08 GMT) |
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| Voinjama Exodus - Many Cross into Guinea Again |
| Hundreds of residents of this hilly town, Voinjama, with their earthly belongings on their heads in scenes reminiscent of the war, streamed out as uncontrolled gangs reined havoc into surrounding villages. |
| Read More...(Source: AllAfrica News: Liberia - Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:20:07 GMT) |
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