Liberia: ‘Tamba, The Mayonnaise’ Latest from Ruling CDC to Declare Montserrado Senate Run
Now he says, he setting his sights on a shot at the Senate, adding to a rising number of potential contenders looking to challenge the incumbent, Abraham Darius Dillon(Liberty Party, Montserrado County). Last month, some of the party’s youths urged Sheriff to consider contesting the forthcoming mid-term Senatorial Election for Montserrado County. Sheriff told FrontPageAfrica Wednesday that he is preparing and galvanizing youths within the party for a strong run. My Tamba is a Mayonnaise, not a butter, but then understand that, Mayonnaise is sour more than butter. With so many members of the ruling party eyeing the Senate, political watchers say, the party risk splitting votes in its attempt to regain control of Montserrado County.
Source:Front Page Africa
June 25, 2020 07:07 UTC
Liberia: Samaritan’s Purse Donates US$45K Assorted Anti-Covid-19 Materials to Health Ministry
Above: Ms. Joni Byker, Samaritan’s Purse Country Director hands over list of 92 items to Health Minister Dr. Wilhelmina Jallah as Deputy Health Minister Francis Kateh looks on; Below: A view of the 92 items donated by Samaritan’s Purse to Liberia government’s Covid-19 fightMonrovia – The international NGO, Samaritan’s Purse (SP), has donated to the Ministry of Health, an assortment of anti-Coronavirus materials, which are valued over US$45,000. Ms. Byker disclosed that their efforts are mainly concentrated in the nation’s Southeast region, including Maryland, River Gee and Grand Kru Counties, where they provide airlifting services of samples that are brought down to Monrovia for testing when it is necessary. We are donating these materials to be an encouragement to them and their response in this country,” Ms. Byker stated. There are two religious leaders who passed by this man, they don’t helped him; they actually avoided him and continued moving on. She urged everyone to do all to fight the spread of Covid-19 in Liberia.
Source:Front Page Africa
June 25, 2020 07:07 UTC
Liberia: 67-Year-Old Survivor of Life-threatening Injury Narrates Ordeal, Begs for Financial Assistance To Pay Medical Bills
Grand Bassa County – A 67-year-old man, James Droglen is calling for help following a near-death injury he sustained when he fell from a palm tree few days ago. The incident occurred on Saturday, June 2020 in Gorbhah Town, Wee Statutory District located in Electora District #4, Grand Bassa County. He survived following hours of surgeries performed by Doctors at the Liberia Agriculture Company (LAC) Hospital. Explaining his ordeal to a team of reporters following the surgeries, Droglen said he was recused by two ‘Good Samaritans’- Dorris Weeks and Esther Davis who heard him screamed following the incident. Reports says he had earlier worked for Grand Bassa County’s Senator Jonathan Kaipay.
Source:Front Page Africa
June 25, 2020 06:56 UTC
Govt Presents L$40M to Liberia National Tailors Union to Produce Million Face Masks
According to the COVID-19 National Response and Incidence Management System, the production of the face masks will be completed in 10 days. Like the stimulus package; the face masks when completed will be distributed to the affected areas and vulnerable citizens within the 15 counties. Montserrado County which is the most affected county is poised of carrying about half of a million face masks when the production is completed. Minister Sirleaf added that wearing of face masks, social distancing will help reduce the cases of Coronavirus in the country. Also speaking, Mr. Ediso Carlor, the president of Liberia National Tailors, Textile, Garment, and Allied Workers Union praised President George Weah for awarding them the contract.
Source:Front Page Africa
June 25, 2020 06:55 UTC
US-Based Organization Calls For Improved Orphanage Facilities in Liberia
MONROVIA – A secular nonpolitical organization, “The Old Skool Family” has frowned on the debilitated state of orphanage facilities in the country that pretend to be giving orphans a better living condition. The organization said orphans are part of the society and should be shown all the care and love that every child needs to be happy. An official of the organization, Mr. Bedell Sandi called on the government of Liberia to take immediate action to remedy the situation orphans are enduring. He called on the government and other well-meaning organizations to follow the good examples of the Old Skool Family by helping poor people. The donation by the organization is part of its charity outreach program which is one of the objectives of the organization.
Source:Front Page Africa
June 25, 2020 06:45 UTC
Liberia: Man Stripped Naked in Gbarnga By AFL Soldiers Seeks Over US$1.3M Damages From Defense, Justice Ministry
Monrovia – A man, who was stripped naked by two soldiers of the Armed Forces of Liberia and made to parade the main streets of Gbarnga in February this year, has filed a US$1.3 Million lawsuit against the Ministries of Defense and Justice. The lawsuit named the Ministry of Defense by and thru the Minister, Daniel Dee Zlankahn and Chief of Staff Prince C. Johnson as first Defendants and Justice Minister Cllr. Woods added in his complaint that on February 22, 2020, he appeared at the police station in Totota, Bong County as an executive member of the county’s motorcyclist to probe an alleged stolen motorcycle situation. He recalled that when he was taken to Gbarnga adjacent the Paulma Guest House, the two soldiers ordered him to undress himself threatening that he will be stabbed to death if he refuses. According to the victim, while parading naked he was intercepted by the Police Commander of Bong County who query the soldiers about their wrongful act against him.
Source:Front Page Africa
June 25, 2020 06:33 UTC
Covid-19 Crisis Threatening Democracy Around the Globe
“The current pandemic represents a formidable global challenge to democracy. Authoritarian leaders around the world see the COVID-19 crisis as a new political battleground in their fight to stigmatize democracy as feeble and reverse its dramatic gains of the past few decades,” the letter states. “Democracy is under threat, and people who care about it must summon the will, the discipline, and the solidarity to defend it. “This unprecedented demonstration of global solidarity is a sign that democracy, while threatened, is also resilient,” says Carl Gershman, President of the National Endowment for Democracy and one of the signatories. The pandemic and the global movement for racial equality have shown that democracy is more important than ever.
Source:Front Page Africa
June 25, 2020 05:03 UTC
President Weah Urges Dialogue to Resolve ECOWAS Single Currency Deadlock
President Weah believes negotiations and diplomacy can resolve the apparent misunderstandingMonrovia – President George Maneh Weah has called on West African leaders to continue to work in the spirit of African solidarity and unity in order to resolve differences over a new single currency program amongst member states of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The Liberian Leader was speaking on Tuesday, June 23, 2020, during a virtual conference of heads of state of the West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ). President Weah believes negotiations and diplomacy can resolve the apparent misunderstanding. He said it was a “matter of concern” that Francophone countries will go ahead with the adoption without consulting the rest of the union, but called for more engagement. Tuesday’s summit was attended by Anglophone West African countries, Liberia, Nigeria, Ghana, Gambia, and Sierra Leone joined by francophone Guinea.
Source:Front Page Africa
June 25, 2020 00:56 UTC
Africa: COVID-19 to Cost Billions in African Exports
Geneva — COVID-19 is having a profound impact on global trade and the businesses that drive it, says a new report by the International Trade Center (ITC). The report highlights the devastating effect the pandemic is having on the small and medium enterprises so important to Africa’s economies. By Peter Kenny, Contributing WriterThe SME (small and medium-sized enterprises) Competitiveness Outlook predicts that African exporters are set to lose more than $2.4 billion in global industrial supply-chain exports. The 2020 edition of the ITC’s 2020 Outlook reveals just how profoundly SMEs and global supply chains have been tested by the COVID-19 pandemic, leaving international trade in turmoil. Health and economic crisisTembo added: “The COVID-19 pandemic has been both a health and an economic crisis and has presented several challenges for SMEs and global supply chains.
Source:Front Page Africa
June 24, 2020 17:15 UTC
Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, LEC Customer Service Center Reconstruction Still on Schedule
Monrovia – The Millennium Challenge Account-Liberia’s reconstruction of the Liberia Electricity Corporation (LEC) Customer Service Center (CSC) remains on schedule. These deficiencies contributed to a lack of comfort and health issues for customers, many who are pregnant women or women with small children, and to LEC customer service agents. LEC will use the new vehicles to deliver a more effective customer service response in the field. In addition, before construction began, the MCA-L funded the relocation of the LEC customer service department to a temporary facility in Congo Town, off VP Road at Catholic Hospital Junction. They should also experience better tracking of service orders due to an improved link between customer service management and technical staff through a new integrated information management system to which the service center will connect.
Source:Front Page Africa
June 24, 2020 14:15 UTC
Liberia: Government Lawyers Drop Charges Against Three Indicted Former Ex-CBL Officials
Charges have been dropped against Richard Walker, Dorbor Hagba and Joseph Dennis through a Nolle Prosequi without prejudice to the State. Monrovia – State Lawyers have dropped charges against three indicted former officials of the Central Bank of Liberia(CBL). The charges were dropped against Richard Walker, Dorbor Hagba and Joseph Dennis through a Nolle Prosequi without prejudice to the State. In response to the State submission, the defendnats’ lawyers, Cllr. Johnny Momo interposed no objection to the State request to dropped charges against his clients.
Source:Front Page Africa
June 24, 2020 13:52 UTC
Liberia: Court Arrests, Detains Two Lawyers of NPA Over Contempt Charges
The two lawyers were arrested and detained for refusing to instruct their client (NPA) to turn over a 40ft container seized by the management of the port. However, following the arrest of the lawyers, the management of the NPA through the Ministry of Justice released the container to the court. The two lawyers were later released by the court after the container arrived on the grounds of the court. Meanwhile, the Managing Director of the NPA, Bill Twehway, his deputies and Assistant Managers have refused to turn themselves over to the court. But in disregard to the law, the management of the NPA refused to turn the container over to the company.
Source:Front Page Africa
June 24, 2020 11:03 UTC
Liberia: Police Power Won’t Curb COVID-19! Community Mobilization & Social Behavior Change Communications Will Do
IN SOME INCIDENTS, people driving alone in their private cars have been ordered to wear nose mask. HOW DO YOU expect a person driving alone to use a nose mask? IT MAKES NO SENSE to enforce the wearing of nose mask upon a person driving alone or along with his wife or children. We think the joint security must adopt a new approach from a social behavior change context. WE SUGGEST that community engagement and a meticulous social behavior change approach must be at the crux of all responses against the pandemic.
Source:Front Page Africa
June 24, 2020 07:18 UTC
Liberia: Civil Law Court Orders Justice Minister Dean, Others Arrested On Contempt Charges
On Monday, June 22, the Sixth Judicial Civil Law Court at the Temple of Justice, which is adjudicating the matter, issued an arrest order for Minister Dean and three other persons who are allegedly connected to the missing container including the Justice Minister. The other persons named in the writ of arrest are APM Terminal boss, George Adjei; Management of CMA CGM Shipping and Houssel Kaffel, Manager of Montserrado Group of Industries. Tit can be recalled that the container in question was loaded on February 28, 2020 and departed Istanbul, Turkey for Conakry. Unfortunately, according to report, the container was tracked in Madrid, Spain where the Guinean company representative Aboubacar Balde claimed Raze unlawfully changed the original owner to the Montserrado Group of Industries. Balde alleged that a formal complaint was written to the Ministry of Justice pertaining the diversion of the container, but the Ministry failed to respond.
Source:Front Page Africa
June 24, 2020 07:07 UTC
Liberia: New Georgia Residents Benefit Rice Donation from Community Help Initiative
Gardnerville – A group of young people of the New Georgia Community in Gardnerville under the umbrella “Community Help Initiative” has embarked on several community engagements, developments, and food distribution in the area. CHI is a non-Profit professional and ethical organization that engages in serving humanity and fostering unity and development in the New Georgia Community. The group, over the weekend, started distributing rice to households in the nine communities of New Georgia and carrying out sensitization about COVID-19 prevention. Apart from the donation to the clinic, the organization also donated bags of rice to households in New Georgia Golf, New Georgia Signboard, New Georgia Nigerian’s Shop, New Georgia U-Curve, New Georgia Oldfield Community and New Georgia Famous Island. He called on young people in and out of the New Georgia Estate to put their widow’s might together and help improve the community.
Source:Front Page Africa
June 24, 2020 07:07 UTC