Day: January 4, 2024

ArcelorMittal Liberia’s Expansion Deal: A Lifeline for Liberia’s Development Agenda

IPNEWS: The outgoing George Weah Administration recently presented a proposed Fiscal Year 2024, Draft National Budget totaling $625.57 million to the 54th Legislature for review and passage into law. A staggering 95% of this budget, amounting to $594.5 million, is allocated to recurrent spending, primarily servicing government debts and paying civil servants’ salaries. Unfortunately, this …

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Ministry of Justice, Partners Brainstorm on Response to the UN Human Rights Commission’s Report on Liberia

The Human Rights Division of Liberia’s Ministry of Justice has held a two-day drafting meeting focused on responding to the UN Human Rights Commission’s report to Liberia on the  convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment (OPCAT). The meeting was held in concert with the Bureau of Corrections and Rehabilitation …

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Senate Staffers Disrupt Confirmation Hearing of Associate Justice-designate Musa Dean in Demand of Benefits 

IPNEWS: Staffers at the Senate on Thursday, January 4, protested in demand of two-month benefits for the Special Session requested by President George Manneh Weah. The Constitution of Liberia gives the President the right to recall the legislature from break to perform certain Legislative functions as may be deemed by the President. The law also …

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Samora P. Z. Wolokolie FITS THE JOB@LRA WITH PROFESSIONALISM

IPNEWS: The concept of generational change must not and cannot be cosmetic.  For more than a decade Liberia had sought to breed the best cream of young professionals setting the stage for national development and recovery. To date, and as compare with time past, young people are now leading the development agenda with Hon. Samora …

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