Sweden arrests two Rwandan genocide suspects
A Swede of Rwandan origin and a Rwandan national were held in custody Wednesday in Sweden under suspicion of involvement in the African country’s 1994 genocide, prosecutors said. “Two men have been arrested and are being questioned. They are suspected of participating in the genocide,” Tora Holst, prosecutor in charge of the probe, told AFP. […]
Ebola: No health, no sustainable development and progress in Liberia
It is not an exaggeration to say that our country, Liberia is now in crisis – from the high levels of insecurity to the daily tales of the Ebola epidemic, fraud and corruption in government to health workers on strike recently at a major state-run Ebola treatment center (JFK) in Liberia over pay and poor […]
Belgium arrests former Liberian rebel commander
Belgium has arrested a high-ranking member of the rebel movement that plunged Liberia into conflict more than two decades ago and charged her with war crimes and crimes against humanity, a spokesman for federal prosecutors said Thursday. The charges against Martina Johnson, former head of the heavy artillery unit for the National Patriotic Front of […]
Police chief warns against use of ‘deadly force’
After hell broke loose Wednesday between Liberian security forces and residents of West Point, a slum community in the capital, Monrovia, that led to five persons getting injured as a result of gun fire, Police Inspector General Chris Massaquoi has warned police officers not to use deadly force in their mission to enforce the quarantine ordered by […]
Investment in Africa on the rise
Africa’s share of global foreign direct investment (FDI) projects has reached the highest level in a decade, according to Executing Growth, EY’s 2014 Africa Attractiveness Survey. The report combines an analysis of international investment into Africa since 2003, with a 2014 survey of over 500 global business leaders about their views on the potential of […]
East African officials discuss risks to public finances
The International Monetary Fund’s Regional Technical Assistance Center for East Africa (IMF- East AFRITAC) held a workshop on “Fiscal Risks: Identification, Reporting and Management” in Entebbe, Uganda during the period April 28 – May 1, 2014. The workshop, the first of its kind in the region, was attended by twenty officials from finance ministries and […]
IOM supports Displaced Families
The International Office of Migration (IOM), in close collaboration with the Government of Somaliland and in partnership with UN agencies, has opened a new Digaale permanent settlement in Hargeisa, Somaliland, for 500 displaced (IDP) families who in the past lived in destitute temporary settlements. IOM is providing durable solutions for the IDPs through voluntary relocation, […]
Cyberspace: New frontlines for Liberian “war criminals”
A decade and half old brutal war that left nearly 300,000 dead and ruined whatever infrastructures left of the economic-deprived West African nation of Liberia, no doubt created deep mistrust and hatred between key war-actors and their victims now living abroad, mainly, the United States. Even though the bloodbath ended more than a decade ago, […]
Liberian Government Must Fund Film Industry
The regional secretary of the Pan-African Federation of Filmmakers, Mariama Camara, has called on the Liberian Government to make an allotment in the national budget for the country’s film and movie industry because cinematography serves as a medium of education, reconciliation, cultural exposure as well as entertainment for citizens. She said a national fund for […]
