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Last year ended on a rather low note for many Liberians with the wave of alleged ritualistic, serial killings which instilled fear across the country. Communities and residents were on the brink of paranoia. Thus is upsetting the way of life fo
Liberian Senate to Engage U.S. Embassy for Clarity on Statement Following Sen. Johnson’s Election as Chair on Defense and Security Committee Liberian Senate to Engage U.S. Embassy for Clarity on Statement Following Sen. Johnson’s Election as Chair on Defense and Security Committee Share MONROVIA – The Liberian Senate has acknowledged the U.S. Embassy’s concerns on the election of the Senator Prince Y. Johnson as the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Defense, Security, Intelligence and Veteran Affairs, but says it would engage the Embassy for further clarity on their concerns so as t...
By Maureen Sieh In its 40-year history, the Daily Observer has weathered many storms including five closures, imprisonment, and threats to its journalists and three fires for fulfilling its watchdog role of exposing corruption, widespread human rights abuses meted against the Liberian people by their government. One of the fires was in response to a story I wrote about the mysterious arrest and disappearance of Major General Kemeh, a son of Nimba County and former secretary general of the defunct People’s Redemption Council (PRC). Kemeh and his wife were spending the Christmas holiday in Ni...
Liberia: Kenneth Best on the Daily Observer Newspaper and Its 40-Year Journey Liberia: Kenneth Best on the Daily Observer Newspaper and Its 40-Year Journey Share The first thing I would like to do in this brief statement on the 40-year History of Liberia’s Daily ObserverNewspaper is to give thanks to Almighty God for giving Mae Gene and me, in January 1977, as we were coming to the close of our careers in Nairobi, Kenya, the idea of returning home to start Liberia’s first independent daily newspaper. I remember vividly when we first started dating in 1970 that we conceived the idea of pu...
Share MONROVIA – The Publisher of Liberia’s first independent newspaper, Mr. Kenneth Y. Best, has recounted the “costly pains and challenges” him and several of his staffs suffered and encountered for establishing a news organ and reporting critical and balance stories in keeping with their reportorial duties in the country. The Daily Observer newspaper was established in January 1981 during the brutal and cruel regime of military dictator Samuel K. Doe. Mr. Best recalled that the beginning of the paper second month in existence, the “erratic, powerful and tyrannical Justice Ministe...