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Comprehensive News Feed for Liberia.
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UN hails first female winner of Liberian music contest
New York, Dec 22 : United Nations officials in Liberia have congratulated 19-year-old Vivian Akoto on becoming the first female to win A Star is Born, a youth competition which since 2006 has used music as an instrument for social change, national unity, and an agent to promote peace and development in the West African country. Comment?
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Cash for Liberia whistle-blowers
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Liberia's President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has issued a decree to pay and protect whistle-blowers as part of her campaign to tackle corruption. Comment?
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Liberia: New Technology, Ideology Require in Rebuilding Damaged Infrastructures
Liberia's Minister of Public Works, Samuel Kofi Woods, II says the rehabilitation and reconstruction of damaged infrastructures require intensive exploration of new technology and ideology. Comment?
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Chicago man killed in Afghanistan
... Musu. Also surviving are his mother, Anna; father, Thomas, and a sister, Ciatta. Albert Ware was born in Monrovia, Liberia. He immigrated to the U.S. at the age of 12, and took up residence in Chicago. He graduated in 2002 from Corliss High School ... Comment?
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Newspaper Publisher Goes to Court for Libeling President Sirleaf
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In Liberia, the publisher of the Plain Truth newspaper and the general manager of the Seamarco Printing press will appear in court Tuesday to answer charges of sedition, criminal libel and malevolence. Comment?
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Liberia: Major Corporations Accepting Social Responsibilities - a...
... of workers at the plantation, insisted that the world's rubber processing giant had an obligation to the people of Liberia, particularly those who labor to produce its raw material. She insisted that Firestone put in place mechanisms to improve ... Comment?
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Liberia: Fight Against Corruption Intensifies - Whistleblowers Get Presidential Greenlight
... commits an offense punishable by a maximum penalty of two years, in the category as defined by the Penal Law of Liberia. Executive Order #22, further states that a whistleblower who has suffered retaliation under provisions of the Order, can seek ... Comment?
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Winner Of National Youth Music Contest In Liberia
Tuesday, 22 December 2009, 10:24 am Press Release: United Nations New York, Dec 21 2009 4:10PM United Nations officials in Liberia have congratulated 19-year-old Vivian Akoto on becoming the first female to win A Star is Born, a youth competition which since 2006 has used music as an instrument for social change, national unity, and an agent to ... Comment?
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UN hails first female winner of national youth music contest in Liberia
United Nations officials in Liberia have congratulated 19-year-old Vivian Akoto on becoming the first female to win A Star is Born, a youth competition which since 2006 has used music as an instrument for social change, national unity, and an agent to promote peace and development in the West African country. Comment?
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Celebrating Christmas across Africa
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... experiences of Yuletide festivities on the continent. Here we hear about drumming in Ghana, Uganda's local beer and Liberia's famous rice. SAMUEL ASANTE, ACCRA, GHANA My Christmas starts on Christmas Eve. I attend midnight mass at St Charles Lwanga ... Comment?
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Copenhagen Climate Conference: Finland promises to support women in poor countries
Laughter and the murmur of conversation filled the meeting room of the Bella Center in Copenhagen on Thursday when President Tarja Halonen met with women from developing countries. Comment?
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Rights activists challenge "window dressing" quotas in African politics
... by women's rights activists and human rights organizations. There have been recent breakthroughs - the election of Liberia's first female president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and Mozambique's first female prime minister, Luisa Diogo and Nigeria's ... Comment?
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Liberia: Journalist Finally Charged for Story on Guinea's Junta
There is no gainsaying that the Sirleaf Administration honors freedom of speech and of the press as guaranteed by the Constitution of Liberia. Comment?
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Liiberia Welcomes Lifting of U.N. Arms Embargo
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The U.N. security council has lifted an arms embargo on Liberia's government, saying it has made progress in rebuilding the country. Comment?
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[ELD] Presiding Bishop set to visit Liberia
At the invitation of Episcopal Church of Liberia Bishop Jonathan B.B. Hart, Jefferts Schori will witness the work of the church, celebrate Mass at Trinity Cathedral in the capital Monrovia and visit Episcopal-affiliated Cuttington University, among other stops both inside and outside the nation's capital. Comment?
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... to close this avenue to their people will be left behind - they will miss the MESSAGE. How sorrowful! So, where is Liberia in all this? That's the main concern. Liberia has come a long way from the destructions of civil war, and the brisk rebuilding ... Comment?
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New DSRSG Impressed with GAC Work
... received the new Deputy Special Representative for Recovery and Governance(DSRSG) of the United Nations Mission in Liberia(UNMIL), Mr. Moustapah Soumare who came on a get acquaintance visit. The DSRSG who was recently appointed by UN Secretary ... Comment?
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Liberian publisher faces criminal charges
... to take into account the "fragility of the situation in Guinea". "Everything that happens there affects us here in Liberia," the source said. Thousands of Liberians fled to neighbouring Guinea during 14 years of civil war from 1979-2003 and the ... Comment?
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Liberia: Chinese Mining Investment Stillborn
The US$2.68 billion China Union plan to revitalise Liberia's Bong Mines has not taken off, almost a year after it was first signed. Comment?
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Liberia: Pres. Sirleaf Dedicates U.S.$100,000 Project
... children in the Christian Community in the Barnesville area. According to the chief financier of the project, the Liberia Shipping Corporate and Registry (LISCR) the cost of the renovation exercise is placed at US$100, 000. The Deaf and Dumb home ... Comment?
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