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  1. Liberia: Govt Urged to Address Findings in Landmark Resource Audit

    [Global Witness]Publication of a full audit of how Liberia awarded its resource concessions between 2009 and 2011 is a global first, said campaigning watchdog Global Witness today.

    AllAfrica.com May 22 05:29AM UTC

  2. Liberia: What A Friend We Have in Jesus!

    [Analyst]"WHAT A FRIEND We Have in Jesus," is the title of an old Christian spiritual. It goes to say that all who toiled, and are heavily laden, should take their burdens, pains, and sorrows "to the Lord in prayers" because He knows "our every weakness". This is a song found in many old Christian hymnals; it might not match contemporary spirituals in the recognition God as the Creator before ...

    AllAfrica.com May 22 11:14AM UTC

  3. Liberia: Officials Declared False Assets

    [New Dawn]The Liberia Anti Corruption Commission or LACC has released the names of several government officials who lied about their wealth when they declared their assets.

    AllAfrica.com 17 minutes ago

  5. Liberia: Press Union Lifts News Blackout on Presidency

    [FrontPageAfrica]The Press Union of Liberia has lifted the blackout it imposed on the Liberian Presidency on May 9, 2013. The PUL reached the decision on Tuesday following a meeting of its members at the union's headquarters.

    AllAfrica.com May 22 09:15AM UTC

  6. Liberia: Grand Gedeans Plan Mass Demonstration - to Demand Trial of Detained Kinsmen

    [New Republic]Several bullets disgorged from the nozzles of rustic guns near an Ivorian border town close to Liberia and the casualties were seven peace-keepers of the Nigerien Contingent of the United Nations Observatory Mission in Ivory Coast along with four Ivorian citizens, thus igniting a terrifying pugilistic-like cataclysm between Ivory Coast and Liberia, which took mature diplomatic ...

    AllAfrica.com May 22 10:14AM UTC

  7. Liberia: Liberia Seeks U.S. Protective Gear in Mali

    [New Dawn]Liberia has requested the United States' (US') support in the form of protective gear, to enable the deployment of the Liberian platoon that will participate in the peacekeeping operation in Mali. A dispatch from Washington, the United States of America says President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf also sought U.S. support in tackling drug trafficking in the West African Region.

    AllAfrica.com May 20 12:03PM UTC

  8. Liberia: The Changing Face of Land Disputes

    [IRIN]Monrovia -The Liberia Land Commission, which was set up in 2009 to help settle land disputes between returning refugees and their neighbours, is making significant headway, say land experts, but non-conflict related land disputes are increasing, most of them as a result of weak land laws.

    AllAfrica.com May 21 03:48AM UTC

  9. Liberia: Liberia's Foreign Minister Ngafuan Lights African Union's 50th Anniversary Torch

    [FrontPageAfrica]Liberia's version marking the Official Lighting of Torch of the 50th Anniversary of the Organization of African Unity/African Union (OAU/AU) has taken place in Monrovia as Foreign Minister Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan performed the ceremony.

    AllAfrica.com May 15 13:48PM UTC

  10. Liberia: Dual Citizenship Bill Faces Opposition

    [New Dawn]Maryland County Senator and Senate Chairman on Foreign Affairs H. Dahn Morias, has announced that the Liberian Senate will oppose the dual citizenship bill.

    AllAfrica.com May 13 13:03PM UTC

  11. Liberia journalists protest with black front pages

    Newspapers in Liberia have printed black front pages after a government official was accused of threatening journalists. The director of the presidential security service reportedly told a journalist: ...

    Associated Press via Yahoo! News May 10 14:34PM UTC

  12. Liberia: Liberia Pledges U..S.$100,000

    [NEWS]The Government of Liberia has announced a contribution of US$100,000.00 to recovery efforts in the West African State of Mali.

    AllAfrica.com May 17 13:03PM UTC

  13. Liberia: Bad for Liberia - LEITI Endorses Moore Stephens Audit, Call for Implementation

    [FrontPageAfrica]The Multi-Stakeholders steering Group of the Liberia Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (LEITI) says it fully endorsed the fourth EITI Reconciliation findings for Liberia and the post Award process Audit Report.

    AllAfrica.com May 17 13:48PM UTC

  14. Liberia: Opposition Party to Resist 'Exploitation of Resources'

    [New Dawn]The Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) has threatened to resist in any manner to stop the Government of Liberia from embarking on any process of exploiting the Mount Wologizi in Lofa County.

    AllAfrica.com May 20 13:33PM UTC

  15. Liberia: 'Important to Liberia's Economy' - EU Envoy to Source Investors for Liberia's Ports

    [FrontPageAfrica]The investment needs of Liberia are so overwhelming to the extent that the country's economy relies heavily on foreign direct investment.

    AllAfrica.com May 13 12:48PM UTC

  16. Ex-warlord Johnson in Liberia quits his own party

    Prince Johnson, a former warlord-turned-politician who is best known for having videotaped himself overseeing the torture of Liberia's ex-president, announced Friday he is quitting the political party he founded.

    Fox News May 17 20:26PM UTC

  17. Liberia's Johnson-Sirleaf defends governance record

    By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf on Friday defended her government's record on good governance and transparency, following an independent audit that cast doubt on her anti-corruption efforts. She said a recent audit of resource contracts by accounting firm Moore Stephens contracts had been commissioned to fix, and not hide, problems in the West ...

    Reuters via Yahoo! News May 17 23:07PM UTC

  18. Liberia: Liberia Suspends Building Permits, Works Minister Clamps Down On Zoning Violations

    [FrontPageAfrica]Liberia's Minister of Public Works Atty. Samuel Kofi Woods has with immediate effect suspended all building permits indefinitely to adhere to the zonal laws of Liberia.

    AllAfrica.com May 16 13:33PM UTC

  19. Liberia: Liberia Pledges U.S. $ 100k to Mali Recovery

    [FrontPageAfrica]The Government of Liberia has announced a contribution of US$100,000.00(One Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) to recovery efforts in the West African State of Mali. The Government of Liberia made the commitment at a one day International Donor Conference for the Development of Mali under the theme: "Together For A New Mali", on Wednesday, May 15, 2013 in Brussels, Belgium.

    AllAfrica.com May 17 13:18PM UTC

  20. Liberia: Our Tribute to Bishop Michael K. Francis

    [NEWS]The Most Outspoken personality in contemporary Liberia has been silenced permanently by the power of death. Catholic Archbishop Michael K. Francis has finally given up the ghost following a prolonged illness.

    AllAfrica.com May 20 11:48AM UTC

  21. Liberia: 500,000 Liberians Alienated

    [New Democrat]The battle for dual citizenship has intensified with a high-level delegation from the diaspora charging that over 500,000 Liberians residing in the Diaspora are being denied the Alien and Nationality Law.

    AllAfrica.com May 10 04:18AM UTC