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Liberia: Koon Faces Lawmakers' Revolt, Then Draws 62 Members as House Resumes Business

Liberia, Oct. 14 -- Speaker Richard Nagbe Koon presided over a House of Representatives session attended by 62 lawmakers on Tuesday, October 13, as the chamber resumed legislative business days after ... Read More


Liberia: As Hypertension and Obesity Rise, Government Urges Citizens to Get Moving

Liberia, Oct. 14 -- Summary By Tetee Gebro, gender and health correspondent with New Narratives CATHOLIC JUNCTION, Monrovia - Rain was falling Saturday morning when Nadia S. Jolo joined a group of p... Read More


Liberia: Tappita Student Leader Urges UL to Resume Classes Amid Shutdown, Proposes Online Learning

Monrovia, Oct. 14 -- The President of the Tappita District University and College Students Association (TADUCSA), Effort N. Karr, has called on the University of Liberia administration to urgently res... Read More


Liberia: Unrealistic and Blanket Statement: Saar Insurance Describes Call From Aggrieved Teachers For Cancellation Of Health Services Contract With NTAL

Liberia, Oct. 14 -- The Management of Saar Insurance Company has raised serious concerns over what it described "unjustified" call from aggrieved members of the National Teachers Association of Liberi... Read More


Liberia: Agriculture Minister Holds High-Level Talks with FAO Director-General on Agricultural Investment

Liberia, Oct. 14 -- Agriculture Minister Dr. J. Alexander Nuetah has held high-level discussions with the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Dr. QU ... Read More


Liberia Is Not for Sale - Not to Miners, Not to Cartels

Liberia, Oct. 14 -- Senator Amara Konneh's warning in Washington that Liberia stands at its "most dangerous point since the war and Ebola" should alarm us at home as much as it alarmed his hosts abroa... Read More


Liberia: District 10 Aspirant Taylor Urges Residents to Shun Violence, Remain Patient Amid Representation Crisis

Monrovia, Oct. 14 -- A Representative hopeful of Montserrado County Electoral District #10 has called on residents of the district to remain patient and shun all forms of violence, including plans to ... Read More


Liberia: Gbeisay's Call to Abolish Jury Trials Sparks Constitutional Showdown, Raises Fears of Concentrating Justice in Judges' Hands

MONROVIA, Oct. 13 -- Liberia's top judge has declared that the country's trial jury system has been so badly compromised that it may no longer be worth keeping. That position has set the Judiciary aga... Read More


Liberian Senator Warns Washington: Mining Giants and Drug Cartels Are Pushing Liberia Toward 'State Capture'

WASHINGTON, DC, Oct. 13 -- A Liberian senator has told American democracy advocates that his country faces two threats at once: multinational mining companies working through legal deals, and drug car... Read More


Liberia: Saudi Rice Trial: Gbassay Rejects Guilty Verdict, Declares Innocence, Alleges Pressure to Become State Witness

MONROVIA, Oct. 13 -- Days after a jury at Criminal Court "C" adjudged her guilty in the Saudi Rice corruption case, former National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) official Rosetta L. Gbassay Bowah ... Read More