Liberian war crimes suspect re-arrested in France
A Liberian war crimes suspect was arrested again in France on Friday for violating the conditions placed on him after he was released from pre-trial detention. Kunti K., also a naturalized Dutch citizen, was arrested first in September 2018 and placed under pre-trial detention but was released one year later in September last year due […]
The Liberian Swedish Association in 2019
2019 was a successful year for the Liberian Swedish Association (LSA) says its president David Ford. Below, Mr. Ford reflects on the year in a conversation with Nordic Africa News. What were the goals of the administration in your first year? Upon taking over the leadership of the Liberian Swedish Association (LSA) on December 1, […]
Liberia needs a heart transplant
By Alexander Redd INTRODUCTION We are witnessing a unique fractured time in our nation’s history. It is not our worst, but far from our best. Only together in oneness of spirit and heart that we will rebuild the trust we seem to have lost in each other. Our affection for the rule of law conflates […]
ECOWAS happy with AfDB investments in region
The African Development Bank’s investments in West Africa are yielding remarkable results, the President of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Jean-Claude Kassi Brou, said in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, on Saturday. He was speaking at the bloc’s fifty-sixth ordinary session, attended by regional heads of state and government. Brou said the bank […]
Liberia can’t just run and print off scads of cash
By Seltue Karweaye In a communication dated December 15, 2019, Liberian President Weah stressed the increasing liquidity needs of the economy, informing the Senate that the current liquidity projection of the CBL, compared with a very low Liberian dollars vault cash position of both the CBL and commercial banks, makes it imperative to infuse additional […]
Top 100 arms producers made $420 billion in 2018
Sales of arms and military services by the sector’s largest 100 companies (excluding those in China) totaled $420 billion in 2018, marking an increase of 4.6 per cent compared with the previous year. This is according to new data released today by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) in the SIPRI Top 100 ranking. […]
2023 presidential election will bring change to Liberia
By: Mengistu Eddie Wolokolie Liberians home and abroad, I want to take this time to ask you to join me in 2023, as I seek the highest office in the land. I am as of today, making my intention known that I will run for the president of the Republic of Liberia. I am asking […]
More funds to education emergencies in Mali, Niger
Education Cannot Wait (ECW) announced on Friday a new US$3.7 million tranche of funding to support education in emergencies responses in the Sahelian nations of Mali and Niger. The new funding will expand support from ECW’s initial US$6 million First Emergency Response grant announced this July. In addressing the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the region, the expanded […]
Commonwealth, UN to work more closely together
Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland and United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed have formally committed their organisations to work more closely together. The two leaders signed a Memorandum of Understanding Friday at the Commonwealth’s headquarters in Marlborough House, London. The document outlines how the two organisations will work together on pressing global issues such as governance and peace, […]
Referendum: Liberians should vote against proposition 1
Article 28 is a DESUETUDE— forgotten, worn-out, and an unenforced law; while its proposed amendment, Proposition#1, presents the case of a ‘legal right to do wrong.’ I’m here today with the intent to neither speak for nor against Proposition #1 but rather to help explain not only its limitations but also its attempt to reawaken […]
