Liberia: Journalist Jonathan Paye-Layleh Urges Cordial Relationship Between Joint Security and the Press Media
He said it is because of this long-standing cordiality that journalists have always been there for security people — taking interest in highlighting their plight when working conditions appear unfavorable for them. Mr. Paye-Layleh, one of those on the frontline in the media battle against attempts at muzzling the press in Liberia, was speaking when he interacted with a group of checkpoint security personnel in Monrovia after the Press Union of Liberia’s meeting on May 8. He told them to respect the authorities of government but they should also remember that discretional and rational decision-making is key to all security operations globally. The journalist further reminded checkpoint security that only media people will always be available and accessible to listen to their concerns when, for ethical reasons, they are unable to make their own case publicly. The journalist appealed to religious leaders in the country to take interest in and mediate to end the current standoff between the government and the media community over the issuance of press passes to media workers.
Source:Front Page Africa
May 11, 2020 09:56 UTC
Life for African Mothers Donates Consignment of Drugs to Liberia’s Health Ministry
MONROVIA – A United Kingdom-based non-governmental organization, Life for African Mothers (LFAM), has aided Liberia’s health ministry’s fight against the coronavirus by donating a consignment of medications worth 75,000 British Pounds. Speaking earlier, Life for African Mothers’ Country Director Abdul Fayiah Bah said he is overwhelmed by his organization’s continued contributions to his country. He applauded the British Government and the international health partners for promptly coming to the aid of Liberians through LFAM. Through its maternal mortality programme in hospitals and health centres across Africa, it dispenses medicines to prevent post-partum haemorrhage. Life for African Mothers has trained over 400 Liberian midwives and nurses in eight counties in order to avoid death at childbirth.
Source:Front Page Africa
May 11, 2020 02:20 UTC
Covid-Organics-Coronavirus: A Cure or A Fake
The trials will determine the safety or efficacy of the drink to ensure that they are safe for human consumption. An African president using his office to claim a cure for a pandemic is nothing new. Some of us watched in horror in 2007 when the Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh claimed to the world that he had found the cure for HIV/AIDS. How did President Jammeh come across a cure when the international community of scientists had been working feverishly for decades and could not find a cure? Raejolina’s claims about the potency of Covid-Organics is an entrepreneurial move by an entrepreneur who wants to profit off of the global panic buying of anything that resembles a cure for Covid-19.
Source:Front Page Africa
May 11, 2020 02:15 UTC
Liberia: Four Feared Dead in Jackson Village Gold Mine Collapse in Bong County
Report by Selma Lomax, [email protected]The artisanal miners never came back outside Friday from the Jackson Village gold mine after entering the night before, police said. “We were working underground at around 10:00 p.m. when we heard a noise coming from the other side of the mining shaft,” the miner said. A miner who spoke to FrontPageAfrica from the scene described how the shaft collapsed. So, the main cause of the accident is the heavy rains we have experienced in Bong County in recent days,” the agent said. Jackson Village is a gold rich area in Jorquelleh District, and some men there enter such mines, despite the danger involved.
Source:Front Page Africa
May 11, 2020 01:52 UTC
Liberia: Health Worker Fears Her Life Is At Risk; As NSA Continues ‘Harassment, Intimidation’
Ms. Felicia Toe has worked with the Ministry of Health and assigned with the Montserrado County Health Team as a deputy County Surveillance Officer for the past five years. Upon the discovery of COVID-19 in Liberia, she served on the Montserrado County COVID-19 response team as a supervisor of the Case investigation Pillar. I am available for further inquiry.”Ms. Toe has worked with the Ministry of Health and assigned with the Montserrado County Health Team as a deputy County Surveillance Officer for the past five years. Upon the discovery of COVID-19 in Liberia, she served on the Montserrado County COVID-19 response team as a supervisor of the Case investigation Pillar. “Honorable commissioner, I am being tortured emotionally and I am undergoing intimidation and harassment without being told what crime I have committed.
Source:Front Page Africa
May 11, 2020 00:30 UTC
Liberia: Cummings Africa Foundation Kicks-Off Nationwide Food & Covid-19 Preventive Materials Distribution
Mr. Alexander Benedict Cummings says the distribution across Liberia is intended to enable the beneficiaries to have food on their tables during this Coronavirus pandemic and keep safe. The Cummings Africa Foundation is a philanthropic organization that provides educational and other supports to citizens in Africa, particularly Liberia. The beneficiaries include: visually impaired persons, physically challenged, less fortunate, old folks, orphans, deaf and dumb, marketers, among others. Some of the groups that benefitted from the humanitarian gesture include: Smell No Taste Old Folks Home, Faith Old Folks Home, Marshall Old Folks and Disabled Home, Children of Hope Orphanage, and Bishop Judith Craig Children Village in Margibi County. Some of the groups that benefitted from the humanitarian gesture include: Smell No Taste Old Folks Home, Faith Old Folks Home, Marshall Old Folks and Disabled Home, Children of Hope Orphanage, and Bishop Judith Craig Children Village in Margibi County.
Source:Front Page Africa
May 10, 2020 13:41 UTC
Grand Gedeh Man Flees After Wife Gives Birth to Triplets
Zwedru, Grand Gedeh County – A man, 40, has absconded from his family after his wife gave birth to three children at the government run hospital in Techien District, Grand Gedeh County. Report By Moses Geply in Grand Gedeh CountyDecontee Brown, 35, a resident of Bowien Quarter in Zwedru, and with her three children were then left stranded at Martha Tubman Memorial Hospital. According to nurses assigned at the neonatal ward, Decontee gave birth on Monday, May 4. “It is true that children are blessings from God, but I am deeply worrying about the care and support of my children and me”. She said the mother and the babies are in good health but they are being kept in an incubator.
Source:Front Page Africa
May 10, 2020 10:11 UTC
French Media Finds Videos Purportedly Showing Violence Against Africans In China are Old, Out of Context
As the news spread across the world, there were videos going viral in a bid to substantiate these claims. According to the article, these are old videos that captured incidents that happened long before the coronavirus pandemic. In one of the videos, a group is seen beating up a black man with an iron bar. When France 24 double checked the video through a search using InVid, they found that the same video was posted few years back. However, when France 24 ran the video through a search using InVid, they pulled up posts of the same video posted in early November 2018.
Source:Front Page Africa
May 10, 2020 09:56 UTC
Jeety Provides Cooked Meal for Over 10,000 Lock-down, Underprivileged Liberians
By Alaskai Moore Johnson, [email protected]This is a personal initiative of Mr. Sachdeva, a very popular Indian businessman, who is more famously known in Liberia as “Mr. He begins feeding these Liberians, who inarguably live on less than US$0.50 daily, by 15:00 hours when the curfew or lockdown goes into effect. “We just wait for Mr. Jeety to come give us something to eat everyday. So, we just wait for Mr. Jeety to bring us food. Mr. Jeety has over the last five years been feeding ordinary Liberians, who go to his Vai Town feeding center five days a week to get hot, ready-cooked Liberian dish.
Source:Front Page Africa
May 10, 2020 01:12 UTC
“Today We Celebrate Peace and Unity in Europe and Our Strong Partnership with Liberia”
By Ambassador Hélène Cavé, Head of the EU Delegation to LiberiaToday the European Union (EU) is a living project of peace, unity, common values and solidarity. We are working with partner countries and organizations around the world to protect and promote peace, security, human rights and sustainable development. The EU will mobilize around EUR 14.75 million, or US$ 15.9 million, from our Budget Support Programme and other projects. A disbursement of EUR 6.25 million, or US$ 6.7 million, is expected to be completed before the end of May. We need to protect ourselves to protect others, and protect others to protect ourselves.
Source:Front Page Africa
May 09, 2020 09:11 UTC
Liberia: Stay Home Order Extended by Two Weeks as Government Gets Flexible with Religious Activities
Liberia: Stay Home Order Extended by Two Weeks as Government Gets Flexible with Religious ActivitiesMONROVIA – President George Manneh Weah has extended the stay home order by an additional two weeks as part of a continued effort to curtail the spread of the coronavirus in the country. Last month President Weah announced a State of Emergency to be observed throughout the Country. 4) A directive to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to engage market leaders in order to make “satisfactory arrangements” for the operations of markets during the period. The security forces will be required to monitor these guidelines to make sure there is no violation. The Government of Liberia is also calling on Liberians, led by religious leaders, to use the upcoming Unification Day celebration to pray for the Country to be healed from the virus.
Source:Front Page Africa
May 08, 2020 21:00 UTC
Liberia to Lose German’s Development Cooperation Due to ‘Failure to Fight Corruption’, Implement Reforms
MONROVIA – Liberia’s failure to satisfactorily show commitment towards the fight against corruption and implement reforms under the George Weah-led administration is costing the country bilateral development cooperation from Germany as the biggest economy in the European Union is dropping Liberia from its aid’s list. Report by Lennart Dodoo, [email protected]In its new reform and bilateral cooperation development strategy, Germany now looks forward to divert its support to countries were its cooperation and more meaningful. What the Govt SaysInformation Minister Lenn Eugene Nagbe told FrontPageAfrica after an inquiry that the Liberian Government has not received any official notification regarding Germany’s intension to terminate bilateral development cooperation with Liberia. “These reforms have necessitated increased support to Liberia, including from the IMF, World Bank and the EU. GIZ is also carrying out capacity development in the transport sector in Liberia Commissioned by German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
Source:Front Page Africa
May 08, 2020 17:03 UTC
Liberia: Contractor Ordered Beaten by House Speaker Security, Says ‘I’m in Pain’
NO JUSTICE FOR THE POOR: “I don’t have money to take Speaker or a Representative to court. I know the President is a kind-hearted person; please tell the Speaker to pay my money. Mr. Guss WinnAsked if he intends to take legal actions against the Speaker and members of House of Representatives, Winn laments: “I don’t have money to take Speaker or a Representative to court. I know the President is a kind-hearted person; please tell the Speaker to pay my money. Winn says he feels disappointed yet again after the Speaker has once again fallen short on his promise to pay.
Source:Front Page Africa
May 08, 2020 15:11 UTC
Liberia: Ex-President Sirleaf Says Honesty, Credibility; Exemplary Leadership Key to Defeating Covid-19
Madam Sirleaf made these comments when she appeared on the ‘Faces on Africa’ program organized by the African Public Health Network (APHN) at the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the United States of America. Madam Sirleaf said citizens would not be adequately convinced if false information are provided by leaders and others reporting on Covid-19. Madam Sirleaf recalled that the outbreak of the disease in Liberia was characterized by confusion and missteps initially in the post-conflict nation. As a President, I formed a very strong technical team comprising public health officials; they became to organize meetings to inform our colleagues in other areas-our Legislature, Judicial system, civil society-holding meetings. Madam Sirleaf, however, named the lack of public confidence as one of the greatest challenges of her government’s efforts in combating Ebola in Liberia.
Source:Front Page Africa
May 08, 2020 11:15 UTC
U.S. Provides One Million Dollars In Assistance to Liberia to Respond to COVID-19
Provides One Million Dollars In Assistance to Liberia to Respond to COVID-19Emmanuel Sorsor has invented a foot propelled hand washing machine in an effort to stop the spread of COVID-19. Monrovia – The United States Government has committed $1,000,000 in health funds to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in Liberia. “This funding is supplemental to our already substantial assistance to strengthen Liberia’s health system. Investments in the health sector have been a major part of United States development assistance to Liberia. Since 2009, American taxpayers have generously funded more than $100 billion in health assistance and nearly $70 billion in humanitarian assistance.
Source:Front Page Africa
May 08, 2020 09:33 UTC