Month: November 2023

Liberia: Presidential Bodyguards’ Head Tries to Clean Hands from Service Personnel Development Fund Cookies’ Jar

-As “30% of Fund” Allegedly Stolen from Account    IPNEWS – As President George Manneh Weah’s Administration draws closer to its end in January 2024, some members of the President’s ‘kitchen’ cabinet have become to lately do what they think they can, aimed at having a ‘safe face’ before the public. While a very small …

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Liberia: Newly/re-elected Lawmakers Promise to Place Women’s Issues on the Front Burner 

Newly and re-elected members of Liberia’s Legislature have pledged their commitment to place issues impacting the growth and development of women, girls and children at the front burner of discussions at the legislature.  This was one of the highlights of commitments made by the incoming and re-elected lawmakers of the House of Representatives and the …

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Liberia – States Lawyers Claim Former C/J’s Brother Is Secretly Entering Crime Scene

IPNEWS – Lawyers representing the Government of Liberia, in the trial involving former Chief Justice Gloria Musu Scott along with three of her relatives, have informed the Court that the brother of Defendant Scott, Mr. Anthony Musu, has been secretly entering the crime scene, which is the home of the former Chief Justice. On Monday, …

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United States (U.S.) and African Development Bank Collaborate to Accelerate Africa’s Digital Transformation

IPNEWS: The U.S. Commercial Service and the African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) have announced a new strategic collaboration in a move to drive digital transformation across Africa. Unveiled on the sidelines of the Africa Tech Festival held in Cape Town, South Africa, this collaboration paves the way for a series of dialogues on how U.S. digital innovation …

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NUCFDCs Head of Secretariat to Lobby for Liberia’s Forest Communities at COP28

IPNEWS: Forest communities in Liberia will have direct representation at 2023 Conference of Parties (COP28) of the United Nations. The 28th United Nations Climate Change conference will take place from November 30, 2023 to December 12, 2023, at the Expo City in Dubai. The Head of Secretariat and National Facilitator of the National Union of Community …

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Integrity Matters for Electoral Legitimacy – Team Kanubah–Sieh on Elections and PUL

IPNEWS: The National Campaign Management Team of Julius Kanubah and Beatrice Sieh for the Leadership of the Press Union of Liberia says the 2023 presidential and legislative elections have shown that integrity matters for the legitimacy of electoral outcomes. Team Kanubah–Sieh believes without electoral integrity it would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible, for …

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ArcelorMittal’s Phase II Expansion A partnership rooted in contribution and shared impact

IPNEWS: In the Nimba landscape of northern Liberia, the rhythmic hum of progress echoed through the collaboration between ArcelorMittal Liberia (AML) and the local communities that host its mining and logistics operations. As normal live continues in towns and villages around iron ore rich mountains, the Phase II Expansion Project seen as a signature project …

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Liberia: Ruling Party’s ‘Militant Brigade’ Placed Behind Bar for Murder

IPNEWS – The Liberian National Police on Monday, November 27, 2023, charged and forwarded a supporter, who is a member of the Militant Brigade of the ruling Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC), to the Monrovia City Court for the alleged death of three persons. Defendant Lawrence Williams’ action also left 24 others both males and …

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Liberia: Former President Ernest Bai Koroma’s Bodyguard Reportedly Killed in Sierra Leone’s Madness

IPNEWS – Former Sierra Leonean President Ernest Bai Koroma has condemned his country’s security personnel for the alleged killing of one of his bodyguards during the reported coup attempt on Sunday, November 26, 2023 in that West Africa nation’s capital, Freetown. The country’s incumbent President, Mr. Julius Maada Bio stated that “In the early hours …

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Liberia: President Weah Issues Proclamation Declaring Wednesday, November 29th, the 128th Birth Anniversary of President Tubman

President George Manneh Weah has by Proclamation declared Wednesday, November 29, 2023 as the 128th Birth Anniversary of the late William V.S. Tubman, the 18TH President of the Republic of Liberia, and is to be observed throughout the Republic as a National Holiday. The Proclamation ordered and directed all Government ministries and agencies, business houses …

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