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The Standard Bearer of the Collaborating Political Parties (CPP), Mr. Alexander Cummings, has pleaded with citizens of Nimba County to help him replace President George Weah comes October 10.

Monrovia, 4 April 2024, Tuesday: The National Elections Commission (NEC) on Thursday, 4 April 2024, declared the Political Campaign open for the Representative By-Elections in District #1 Grand Gedeh County and the Senatorial By-Election in Nimba County. Both By-elections will be held simultaneously on 23 April 2024. The Commission says the political campaign will end on 20 April 2024.

Monrovia, Liberia; April 4, 2024: The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has supported the conduct of an intensive data validation to address missing or truncated information from the local poverty index data collection process by the Liberia Institute for Statistics & Geo-Information Service (LISGIS).

Representee Thomas Ghousa of district number five Grand Bassa County told a team of reporters on Tuesday that part of the report does not send good image of the country to the outside world.

Capitol Hill, Liberia, April 3, 2024 – The first day sitting of the Special Session of the House of Representatives Tuesday, April 2, 2024 was abruptly adjourned over distribution of T-shirts among lawmakers, promoting the establishment of War and Economic Crimes Court for Liberia.

Ganta City, Liberia, April 2, 2024 – Local government appointees for Nimba County last Thursday, March 28, 2024, received a very poor reception from Nimbaians in Ganta City.

Liberia's agriculture minister, Dr. J. Alexander Nuetah, said the country increased domestic rice production by 53 percent last year.

The Elections Coordinating Committee of Liberia has advanced five-count recommendations aimed at curbing hate speech and electoral violence in order to conduct free, fair and transparent elections come October. 

Amb. Joseph Nyumah Boakai, flag-bearer of the Unity Party, a one-time defeated presidential candidate in the then 2017 general and presidential elections, a break-away from the CPP and has 40 years of public service under his belt.

Liberia seems to be heading on a path where a few handfuls of individuals who terrorized the entire population with arms, committing mayhem and killing thousands of civilians, including women and children, believe that they can still hold the country hostage with the barrel of the gun, against current calls for the establishment of war and economic crimes court to punish them for their deeds.