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Asorted agricultural inputs delivered by the MOA STARP-P Project to local farmers. More than 8,000 smallholder farmers in seven counties including Grand Bassa, Bong, Nimba, Margibi, Bomi, Cape Mount and Gbarpolu counties have begun receiving basic farming implement from the Government of Liberia (GOL) through the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) in order to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on farming communities, a press release from the MOA has disclosed. According to the release, the exercise which began on Wednesday January 8 is expected to end on January 14. 2021. The items include Knap Spray...

Liberia: FIND Intensifies Support to SGBV Victims in Montserrado Liberia: FIND Intensifies Support to SGBV Victims in Montserrado FIND Executive Director, Mr. Aaron G.V. Juakollie GBARNGA – The Foundation for International Dignity (FIND), with support from United Nation Development Programme (UNDP), has launched a new project in Montserrado County. According to a press release issued by  FIND under the signature of its Executive Director, Mr. Aaron G.V. Juakollie,  the purpose of the project is to  strengthen the One -Stop Center in a bid to provide comprehensive integrated services to S...

Dear Friends of Papa (Kona), I was touched to hear through my Aunty Miata that you were thinking of my father’s memory and wanted written words about his life. My one request is that his memory serves as a testament to who he was and not what he possessed materially or professionally. He lived a life that was centered around family, loving relationships and making connections with others. Upon meeting anyone for the first time, he would immediately greet that person with a “hello” or “how are you” in their native tongue or language. He treated everyone with respect, no matter what p...

— Deputy Minister Eugene Fahngon warns Eugene L. Fahngon, Deputy Minister for Press and Public Affairs at the Ministry of Information, Cultural Affairs and Tourism (MICAT), has predicted that President George Weah’s second term bid might flop if corrective measures are not taken in the remaining years of his presidency.  In his usual podcast, Fahngon recently said the defeat of the ruling Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) during the December 8 Senatorial polls is “disgraceful, worrisome and has the propensity to cost Weah the Presidency come 2023, should difficult times in th...

Wrestling with world’s largest oil palm company: The tale of Mustapha Foboi, a grassroot frontline defender     There has been a recent uproar at an oil palm plantation outside the capital Monrovia. It was characterized by irate youths setting up of road blocks and grounding of work over ‘compromised local employment deal’ as a transferred problem from Sime Darby to Mano Manufacturing Company, MANCO that since last year bought out the Malaysian company.   Amidst the furore, one name has resurfaced to hopefully save the fluid situation-that is, if prejudice is cast aside to drink fro...