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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Liberia has finally concluded public hearings and submitted a report of its works with recommendations. (AllAfrica)

John Morlu came to the position of Auditor General of Liberia with clean records and credentials having won the admiration of the President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf with the backing from the international community. (AllAfrica)

After failing on two occasions to pass the much-talked about and somehow controversial Threshold Bill, the Liberian Senate yesterday concurred with the House of Representatives to pass the bill, but with modification and condition that no county get not less than two seats. (AllAfrica)

The Liberia National Police have been accused by a local church of being in cahoots with alleged robbers who reportedly robbed the church of over US14, 000.00 (AllAfrica)

Reacting to public outcries relative to the reticence of the Liberian Government on the detention of Sekou Conneh in Guinea, former leader of one of the warring factions in Liberia, Information Minister Dr. Laurence Bropleh has set the record straight, saying that the detained Conneh is being treated as Guinean national and not a Liberian citizen. (AllAfrica)

An executive of the New Deal Movement, Professor Alaric K. Tokpa is suggesting and appealing to the National Legislature, Liberia's lawmaking boy, to consider making 'Torture' a crime in Liberia. (AllAfrica)

This paper has reliably learned that the President of the LIVING Faith Church Worldwide, commonly known as the Winners Chapel International, Bishop David Oyedepo will make an apostolic visit to Liberia from July 20-22, 2009. (AllAfrica)

As The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has come to the end of its mandate and made its report to the National Legislature, the Chairman on Reconciliation at the House of Representative, Representative Wesseh Blamoh of Grand Kru County has said the country is still far from achieving total reconciliation. (AllAfrica)

The Liberian educational system is said to be suffering from the shock of the decade-long civil war, an official of the Ministry of Education has said in Monrovia. (AllAfrica)

Activities of group of learned Liberians who called themselves “the progressive” have once again come under the microscopic spotlight of a Liberian journalist, James S. King. (AllAfrica)

The Bomi County Branch of the Manson-craft in Liberia has been reopened with a commitment from the Corinthian Lodge Number 18 Ancient Freemasonry (A.F) and Ancient Modern Masonry (A.M) of Bomi County to embark on a surgical outreach in Tubmanburg free of charge (AllAfrica)

Though the nation of Liberia, the government of Liberia and the people of Liberia are touched and moved by the death of D. Musulegn Cooper, the National Patriotic (NPP) of which she was a staunch member is bearing the pangs of her demise. (AllAfrica)

The Charge d’Affaires en Pied at the Embassy of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Madam Nena Marie Helene Okitundu Ayaki has said that the people of Liberia and DR Congo have many things in common such as names of persons and places as well as their eating habits. (AllAfrica)

The Good Governance through Strengthened Media in Liberia operated by the Liberia Media Center and Journalists for Human Rights has hosted a human rights training for community radio stations in Gbarnga, completing a circuit involving all counties in the country. The workshop also brings to a conclusion the first phase of the LMC/jhr program in Liberia. (AllAfrica)

Massive preparations are being planned in Monrovia by certain elements within the Mandingo Community to stage a non-violent street demonstration in protest to the prolonged detention in Guinea of the former presidential candidate for the Progressive Democratic Party for Liberia (PROTEMP), Mr.Sekou Demante Conneh. (AllAfrica)

The Liberian public must have bowed recently in the pool of disbelief and shock when some information scavengers created the impression that President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s appointment of Marc A. Amblard as Inspector General of the Liberia National Police was ill-conceived. What the scavengers did to achieve their objective was to mutilate the Inspector General-Designate’s profile and vitae to make it appear that beyond his first college degree in Agriculture, he’s got no iota of further training and education, let alone security-related tutelage and experience and therefore unfit for the delicate national placement. Not too sure that President Sirleaf, a renowned international civil servant and reform-obsessed leader, would leave citizens’ security in the balance and at a mercy of unfit Police Director, The Analyst Staff Writer conducted a little bit of research which finds out the President is not in error and that the new LNP boss’ credential provides substantial assurance of the police force under his superintendence can be more vigilant, people-centered and productive. (AllAfrica)

MONROVIA Thursday, June 04, 2009 (IRIN) - People living next to Firestone Natural Rubber Company’s plantation in Harbel, 45km outside of Liberia’s capital Monrovia, say pollution from the concession is destroying their health, ruining their livelihoods and even killing residents. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG Wednesday, June 03, 2009 (IRIN) - Camel farming could be an option for some 20 million to 35 million people living on semi-arid land in Africa, who will soon be unable to grow crops because of climate change, says the co-author of a new study. (irinnews.org)

MONROVIA Friday, May 29, 2009 (IRIN) - The Liberian government says it has resumed registering births following a 19-year interruption due to the civil war. (irinnews.org)

ACCRA Wednesday, May 27, 2009 (IRIN) - The recent rape of an eight-month-old boy in an orphanage in the Ghanaian capital Accra revealed conditions that child rights advocates say are rampant across West African orphanages. When the authorities investigated the incident they discovered 27 of the 32 children living in the home were not orphans. (irinnews.org)

DAKAR Wednesday, May 27, 2009 (IRIN) - Up to 150 million people in Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana and Nigeria could be at risk of contracting yellow fever says the World Health Organization, as the International Coordinating Group (ICG) on Yellow Fever Vaccine says it has just a quarter of the US$186 million it needs to vaccinate people in 12 at-risk countries. (irinnews.org)

MONROVIA Tuesday, May 26, 2009 (IRIN) - Liberia – declared polio-free since 2006– will be among 11 West African countries covered in a vaccination campaign to be launched 29 May by the World Health Organization (WHO). (irinnews.org)

NAIROBI Wednesday, May 20, 2009 (IRIN) - Several large African cities are at risk from rising sea levels and intense storms, experts warn. (irinnews.org)

DAKAR Monday, May 18, 2009 (IRIN) - African Development Bank president Donald Kaberuka says medium-size farms are the engine for agricultural growth in Africa and given their position and potential they merit considerable investment. Agriculture campaigners say while they support such an approach, investors must not overlook small-scale farmers. (irinnews.org)

DAKAR Thursday, May 14, 2009 (IRIN) - Africa has taken a heavy blow with the global financial crisis and this week as the African Development Bank held its annual meetings in Dakar, Senegal, finance ministers, donors and academics gathered to examine ways to help the continent cope and mitigate setbacks. But coping is particularly difficult for post-conflict or “fragile” states, where institutions are tattered and donors wary. (irinnews.org)

NAIROBI Tuesday, May 12, 2009 (IRIN) - Better coordination between countries and aid agencies is necessary to improve preparedness and response to local and trans-boundary disasters, delegates at the second Africa meeting on Disaster Risk Reduction, held in Nairobi, said. (irinnews.org)

DAKAR Tuesday, May 12, 2009 (IRIN) - Each year in Africa the tsetse fly causes more than US$4 billion in agriculture income losses, kills three million livestock and infects up to 75,000 people with trypanosomiasis, according to the UN. Though sterilising the flies may help wipe out the offending parasite, it is a long, expensive process that is losing experts to other more well-funded health research, according to scientists. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG Monday, May 11, 2009 (IRIN) - Rich countries and firms are leasing or buying massive tracts of land in developing nations for the production of food or biofuel. (irinnews.org)

NAIROBI Wednesday, May 06, 2009 (IRIN) - Ineffective disaster management systems, poor funding and lack of relevant data for planning risk-reduction activities have taken their toll on sub-Saharan African countries, specialists said. (irinnews.org)

John Morlu came to the position of Auditor General of Liberia with clean records and credentials having won the admiration of the President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf with the backing from the international community.

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