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Presidential Aspirants Begin Early Engagements in Rural Liberia for 2023 Votes Presidential Aspirants Begin Early Engagements in Rural Liberia for 2023 Votes Share Monrovia  – After a recent five-day visit to Nimba County. Alexander Cummings, the political leader of the Alternative National Congress and former chair of the Collaborating Political Parties(CPP) spoke of the importance of reaching out. Said Mr. Cummings: “We must reach every town and village with the ANC/CPP message of hope f...

Liberia: Senators Point Accusing Fingers At Mines And Energy Ministry For Facilitating Illicit Mining Around The Country Liberia: Senators Point Accusing Fingers At Mines And Energy Ministry For Facilitating Illicit Mining Around The Country Share MONROVIA – News about foreigners including Ghanaians and Ivorians doing illicit mining in several counties including Gbarpolu, Rivercess, Sinoe has have drawn the attention of the Senate. The Senate Invited Mines and Energy Minister, Gesler Murray. ...

Bomi County Senator Edwin M. Snowe, Jr. Bomi County Senator Edwin Melvin Snowe says the COVID-19 food distribution, as relates to his county, was marked with criminality, “and for the agent of the executive to come here and try to hide under the international NGO wouldn’t work here.” He continued: “If the international NGO stole our people’s food, they will be called to book; we need to constitute a committee here to investigate the food distribution. This Legislature t...

Liberia: Solidaridad Launches Support for 3,000 Cocoa Farmers in Grand Gedeh, River Gee Counties Liberia: Solidaridad Launches Support for 3,000 Cocoa Farmers in Grand Gedeh, River Gee Counties Share Zwedru, Grand Gedeh – In its quest to assist farmers with skills in Cocoa best management practice, Solidaridad has extended its Cocoa Value Chain Development Program (COVADEP) to farmers in Grand Gedeh and River Gee Counties. At the launch of the program in Zwerdru on Wednesday, the Country Repr...

GIEWS Country Brief: Liberia 04-May-2021 Format Average rice production harvested in 2020 Increasing prices of staple food due to inflation Continued assistance needed for most food insecure households Timely start of 2021 planting season Following a timely onset of seasonal rains in late March, planting operations for paddy rice, the only cereal grown in the country, are ongoing and the harvest is expected to start in September. The cumulative rainfall amounts have been average to above averag...

Education Minister Ansu D. Sonii As part of an effort to lay the foundation for the enhancement of quality education in the country, the Ministry of Education (MOE) with support from the World Bank, has launched what it terms as the ‘renovation and rehabilitation of all public senior high schools across Liberia. The launch is being made possible through a US$42 million World Bank grant for the improvement of the physical environment of Senior Secondary Schools in Liberia. During the official...

Liberia: UNFPA, Swedish Government Launch Sexual Reproductive Health Program in Sinoe County Liberia: UNFPA, Swedish Government Launch Sexual Reproductive Health Program in Sinoe County Share Giving the overview, Dr. Ndyanabangi said the program was launched in 2017 in Grand Gedeh, Grand Kru and River Gee counties due to statistics which show high teenage pregnancy rate in the southeastern region. Greenville, Sinoe County – The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) with funding from the Swed...

Participants during the launch at the program. The Swedish Government through the United Nation Population Fund (UNFPA) has extended its Youth Friendly Centre that provides education to both boys and girls on sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) to Sinoe County. The decision to extend the BRAC implemented program comes shortly after joint members of a high delegation that included Ingrid Wetterqvist, Swedish Ambassador to Liberia, UNFPA Country Representative, Dr. Bannet Ndyanabangi, a...

Share Ambassador Wetterqvist said her government’s support to sexual and reproductive health rights for all, especially women and girls, is tied to the Finish Government’s feminist foreign policy which promotes women representation in decision making, access to resources and the realization of their rights Fish Town- River Gee County – Health authorities in River Gee County have told a visiting delegation comprising Swedish Ambassador to Liberia, Ingrid Wetterqvist, UNFPA Country Represe...

LIBERIA: FDA, GIZ hold  Stakeholders’ Meeting With River Gee County Authority LIBERIA: FDA, GIZ hold  Stakeholders’ Meeting With River Gee County Authority Photos : Credit Augustine Young Jr – AY News CEO Maryland County The Forestry Development Authority in collaboration with GIZ have ended a daylong meeting with stakeholders of River Gee County in Fish Town City, Monday. Mr. Joseph N. Greene, head of the Forestry Development Authority (FDA) in his opening remarks, explained that ...