Liberian midfielder looks toward a bright future
Liberian footballer Dulee Johnson says he happy that the bad days are behind him and he is ready to move on with his career. The 30 year-old-midfielder, who plays for Romanian first division side CSMS Iasi, said ” I am a totally different person today. For me the most important thing is to stay away […]
Tanzania will not evict Massai from their land
The government of United Republic of Tanzania has never had any plan to evict the Maasai people from their ancestral land as falsely reported by the media in recent days. The information circulated through the media outlets globally was misleading, malicious and meant to tarnish the image of our country and her international standing. The […]
Why Robert Sirleaf will lose senatorial election
In most countries, the Ebola pandemic, which led to 3,016 Liberians dead, would prompt a time of national mourning. Leaders would cancel frivolous public appearances and political campaigning would be put on hold at least until the country is declare an Ebola free country. But this is Liberia, and the politicians’ election shows must go on. […]
Peak youth – seizing the moment
We have accepted the concept “peak oil” – the point where oil production goes into an irreversible decline. Now we are being asked to contemplate that we are also rapidly approaching “peak youth”, when there will be more young people than ever before in the history of the planet, and when young people as a […]
Why I support Marshall Dennis to become Grand Gedeh Senator
Unity Party refused to send a candidate in Grand Gedeh County even though Unity Party won the senatorial seat in 2011 in Grand Gedeh. A. Marshall Dennis has shown to be the Thomas Sankara model of politics in Grand Gedeh: serve your people and do for your people what government cannot do. Mr. Dennis of […]
Ebola pushes Liberian economy downward
Liberia’s Finance and Development Planning Minister Amara Konneh has disclosed that the country’s economic growth rate is experiencing a downward trend due to the overwhelming impact of the Ebola virus on the country. He said Liberia’s growth rate is subject to reduction as the projected rate at which the country’s economy was heading has […]
Children come first- in Sweden and around the world
Today we are in New York, attending the 25th anniversary celebrations of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. A quarter of a century has passed since the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Since then, almost every country in the world has signed the […]
Ebola orphans face stigma, stress
Of the hundreds of children in Sierra Leone who have lost parents to Ebola, the vast majority have lost both their mother and their father. Among them is eight-year-old Lamin Borbor, who sits alone beneath the shade of a large, tin-roofed gazebo, playing with a small toy car, outside the Ebola Interim Care Centre (ICC) […]
Terrorists killed 18,000 last year
The number of lives lost to terrorist attacks increased by 61% in a single year, according to the second edition of the Global Terrorism Index (GTI), rising from 11,133 in 2012 to 17,958 in 2013. The index also recorded a 44% increase in the number of terrorist incidents, rising from 6,825 in 2012 to 9,814 […]
President’s son threats appalling, says journalist
A Liberian journalist says he is appalled by recent remarks by the son of Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf posted on Facebook on November 13, in which he “threatened to deal” with anybody who protests his candidacy for a senatorial seat. Jackson T. S. Seton, formerly news editor of the Inquirer Newspaper, now a US resident, […]
