The victim, identified as one Moses Jallah, is a staff of Customs and works with the anti-smuggling unit of the LRA. Mr. Jallah was attacked around 8pm, on Monday, May 10. According to family sources, Mr. Jallah has been stabilized and is currently receiving treatment at a local health facility. The LRA further empathized with the family and wishes Mr. Moses Jallah speedy recovery. Fear has reportedly gripped employees of the LRA and other anti-graft institutions in Liberia following the latest incident involving Anti-Smuggling Officer Moses Jallah of the LRA.

Yorgbor said he has always viewed the ANC as an institution founded on the principles of providing genuine democratic and practical transformational leadership and accountability. “That institution is none other but the Alternative National Congress – the ANC. Describing Cummings as “a go-getter”, Yorgbor said Cummings is equally pragmatic, leadership result-oriented and accountable. We have to restore decency to national leadership. “We like to say Mr. Yorgbor, we wholeheartedly welcome you to the ANC where everybody is somebody, where we put Liberia first,” Cummings said.

According to him, the failure of the staff of the COVID Testing Center to give his daughter her COVID-19 Testing reference number has caused his family to incur more than US$800 extra expenses. Younger Fasuekoi, the daughter of the longtime Liberian journalist and owner and Manager of Fazee Restaurant in the U.S. came along with her father to Liberia on a vacation. After booking her ticket with Air France, Younger went to the testing center at Sophie in Congo Town to do her COVID-19 test as required before leaving Liberia. On May 5, Younger went back and did her COVID-19 test with the charged fee of US$75 – all of that was done stipulated time to avoid embarrassment, she said. After running her test, she was not given her covid-19 reference number by staff from the testing center.

David Korboi, Jr., reportedly the ringleader of the gang was arrested based on the cooperation of Lamie J.J. Dennis, one of the suspects initially arrested by the Liberia National Police. Dennis, 38, is the brother of the landlord of one of the men who was brutalized. The Liberia National Police continue to remain tightlipped on the status of the investigation. The country has not defined its stance on the protection of the rights of its LGBT population. With the election of President Joe Biden who promised protection of LGBT people worldwide, the Liberian gay community continues to remain hopeful.

MONROVIA – A General Auditing Commission (GAC) findings have uncovered several discrepancies and unorthodox financial practices in the application of the Nimba County Development Fund in the tone of US$800,000.00. The audit report covers fiscal years 2011 to 2013. In the GAC audit, it was discovered that during the fiscal period 2011/2012 and 2012/2013, the Nimba County Administration received the amount of US$800,000.00 development fund with an operating bank account balance of US$ 2,239,835.08. According to a summary report provided by the Legislature Public Account committee (PAC), the County received US$200,000.00 as County Development fund. The Audit report also states that the cash position was verified from the SDF bank statement for Nimba County social development fund’s account obtained from LBDI.

Gbartala, Bong County – Deborah Gonkpah, a fellow of SHE-CAN, a United States-based non-profit organization that is building women’s leadership in post-conflict countries, has constructed two pit latrines for residents of Gbartala in Bong County. Valued at over US$ 600, the latrines will will serve over five hundred residents. Gonkpah also said her decision to construct latrines for residents of Gbartala is to discourage the traditional and unhygienic practice of defecating in bushes or open fields. She encouraged residents of Gbartala to wash their hands with soap before meals and after using the toilets, inorder to prevent diarrhoea and cholera. SHE-CAN is a US-based non-profit that is building women’s leadership in post-conflict countries.

ADDIS ABABA – Thenewly-elected Commissioner of the Department of Political Affairs, Peace and Security of the African Union, Ambassador Bankole Adeoye, has assured the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) of participation in both Peace Support Operation and Military Support Operation of the African Union (AU) once the new structure comes into force, in July 2021. Commissioner Bankole Adeoye further stated that under his tenure as Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security, he will foster close and cordial working relations with Liberia. Colonel Forleh, following his presentation, used the occasion to request Liberia’s participation in both Peace Support Operations and Military Staff Support to the African Union Missions. He also informed the Commissioner that the AFL has gone under rigorous and professional training since its restructuring in 2006 to present. He further averred that Liberia also served as Member of the African Union Peace and Security Council in 2018, for a period of two years, as Chair of the Military Staff Committee.

Jerome Clarke, the president of the Liberian National Red Cross SocietyMonrovia – Jerome Clarke, the president of the Liberian National Red Cross Society (LNRCS) says the lack of financial support from the government is causing serious challenges for them to deliver help to those who need it desperately. The LNRCS was created by an act from the Legislature with the aim of helping vulnerable people in difficult circumstances at all times. Speaking to journalists on Tuesday at the head office in the preparedness of this year World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day 2021, the president of the LNRCS said having given birth to the Liberian Red Cross Society years back, it is the obligation of the government to support and provide pieces of advice to the institution. The president of the Liberian Red Cross added that there is a situation of Ivorian refugees coming into the coming and they are in dire need but there is no support to go such a distance to take care of the refugees. “But one the thing that has not changed over the past years is the support provided by the Liberian Red Cross Volunteers who are in communities every day helping with awareness-raising and promotion of hand washing, and encouraging community people on the use of facemask.

Mr. President, our healthcare delivery system is all we have and we must work together to keep it at it’s best. Mr. President, these Community Health Workers (Community Health Assistants and Community Health Services Supervisors) are currently without jobs as of March 30, 2021 because the partner in the Southeast has since pulled out their supports. Mr. President, these community health workers need your intervention to safe the NCHA program. Long live Community Health long live our beloved Liberia; shalom peace and love to all. Thanks for accepting my open letter to you Mr. President.

Monrovia – The Open Air Sports Commission on Broad Street will come alive with the much anticipated Mr. Montserrado Weightlifting competition on Friday, May 14, 2021. The competition is organized by Strength of Lion in collaboration with All Star Bodybuilders in Liberia. SOLIC said the objective of the competition is to provide training, recruit members and promote gym sports into the national county sports meet and national and regional peace building. Additionally, the program will derive a two-year action plan of the Bodybuilding Association and youth empowerment through gym sport. Meanwhile the grand prize for the competition has not been announced but the organizers say it will be encouraging for the winners.

“Massaquoi Could Not Have Been In Liberia In 2002 When He Feared For His Life”Gibril Massaquoi remains in Finland during the Sierra Leone hearings in his war crimes trial. The Finnish Court moved from Liberia to Sierra Leone after the hearings of over 60 witnesses there. In 2005, Massaquoi was granted immunity from prosecution for crimes in Sierra Leone in return for his testimony in the war crimes trials in Sierra Leone. I always thought of Massaquoi as a free man, because by then there was no war in Sierra Leone,” she said. “The Sierra Leone war was finished, in 2002 even the former President Kabba announced it in 2002, so how could RUF be present in Liberia or are you saying they were ex RUF rebels?

President Ouattara told the Liberian delegation that the bilateral relations enjoy by the two countries further be described as a model of Cote d’Ivoire-Liberia friendship. President Weah’s, in the Special Message to President Ouattara, indicated that both countries have enjoyed a historic and longstanding friendship. In the message, President Weah expressed deep regrets over the recent attacks on the Military Base in Abobo which allegedly involved some Liberian citizens living within neighboring Cote d’Ivoire. Briefing the Ivorian authorities on the security situation in the region, Minister Kemayah disclosed that two countries have agreed to create a joint technical surveillance team to patrol the borders of both countries. Minister Kemayah, extended profoundest appreciation to the Ivorian government for the high level of cordiality accorded to the special Presidential delegation dispatched by President Weah, to Cote d’Ivoire.

He added that the donation came at the right time and they will keep the Liberian footballer in their prayers at all times. Liberia’s Grand Mufti and Chief Imam Abubakar Sumaworo thanked the Liberian footballer for his kind gesture to Muslims during such an important period of the Islamic religion. The attacker helped PKNS FC retain its spot in Malaysian Super League by scoring 14 goals in 19 games. He went on to finish the 2019 season as the Super League Golden Boot winner. On 27 November 2019, Sherman joined Malaysia super league Club Kedah FA.

Daniel (name changed to protect his identity), 25, said they were halted by the men as they approached their community. “They started saying we are faggots and they are going to kill us one by one in Liberia. He furthered that every watch team is registered with the community section of the Liberia National Police. The conundrum Daniel, Richmond, and Joseph face is, the Police precinct in Gobachop does not have a record on the watch team which brutalized them, according to the outreach officer of LEGAL. LIPRIDE Condemns ViolenceThe coalition body which covers all human rights organizations in the country, LIPRIDE (Liberia’s initiative for the Promotion of Rights, Identity, Diversity, and Equality, has strongly condemned the violation against the three.

Liberia: Three of Five Indians Entering Liberia over the Weekend Reportedly Test Positive for COVID-19MONROVIA – FrontPageAfrica has gathered from reliable sources that three of five Indians who arrived in the country recently tested positive for covid-19. What is not clear is which variant of covid-19 the Indians arrived with. President George Manneh Weah is yet to sign off on a controversial new protocol that would reportedly quarantine travelers from India. Protocol in the airNevertheless, health authorities have reportedly adopted a protocol which will require travelers from India to be quarantined upon arrival. Dr Mukhtar Mohammed, a member of the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19, made the announcement while briefing reporters on Monday, May 10, in Abuja.