Day: June 17, 2020

IMF signals further economic contraction, warns of unprecedented crisis

IPNews-Monrovia: Even with lockdowns being partially eased, IMF warned that there could be an even worse decline. On Tuesday, International Monetary Fund noted that the world economy is heading towards a more significant contraction than what had previously been estimated in April. It did so, noting that the ongoing crisis is nothing like the world …

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WFP Provides Clarity on Controversy Surrounding Funding, Budget, and Implementation of Liberia’s COVID-19’s Food Support Program

Monrovia – The World Food Programme (WFP) Liberia remains committed to collaborating with the Government of Liberia (GOL) for the successful execution of the GOL COVID-19 Household Food Support Programme (COHFSP) as an important safety net for people affected by COVID-19 in Liberia. This programme is providing a month’s supply of food (50 kg of rice, …

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The Dilemma of the Liberian youth—balancing issues of survival and issues of the future of a Nation

By William G. Nyanue For the better part of two decades, several friends of mine and I have been engaged in a conversation about Liberia’s challenges. We often widened the conversation to include the whole continent. Why do we rank so low on the development ladder—infrastructural, educational, economic, technological, etcetera—and our people so poor despite …

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Controversy deepens over Gov’t Food Aid Distribution

By: S. Winston Blyden, Sr. IPNews-Monrovia: A member of the Liberian Senate has clarified that controversial US nine million dollars given to the World Food Program for food distributions across the country was given by the International Monetary Fund to the IMF and not the government of Liberia as being speculates. Recently, Montserrado county Senator …

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Over street demonstration by Beach cleaners, Gov’t agreed to Pay four months arrears

  By: S. Winston Blyden, Sr. IPNews-Monrovia: The Government of Liberia has agreed to pay four out of twenty one months it owed workers of the Beaches and Water Way Project. The disclosure was made by Youth and Sports Minister Zeogar Wilson on Monday when he addressed aggrieved workers in the Borough of New Kru …

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