Day: January 2, 2021

Why Africa’s COVID-19 Outbreak Hasn’t Been as Bad as Everyone Feared

IPNews-Monrovia: When COVID-19 initially blazed through Asia, Europe and then the United States, global public health experts worried that it could be catastrophic for Africa, with its crowded cities, poorly funded health sector and lack of testing facilities. The U.N. Economic Commission for Africa in April predicted up to 300,000 deaths this year if the …

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Governance Must Be About The People, The People, and The People

By: Robert Moncio Kpadeh (Sage) There is and has always been a missing link in the governance of Liberia, which is ZERO EMPHASIS ON THE PEOPLE. It has been a marauding specter of brazen evil where the ruling governors and their cohorts get richer and gleefully live a garish lifestyle while the people on whose …

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Maritime Authority Terms Reported U.S. Renew Sanction “Misleading and Inaccurate”

IPNEws-MONROVIA: The Liberia Maritime Authority (“LiMA”) clarifies a recent publication alleging that the United States has recently imposed sanctions on several Liberian-registered shipping companies. LiMA rejects this information which is misleading and inaccurate. The vast majority of the entities referred to in the publication named were non-shipping corporations sanctioned back in 2013 and were immediately …

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