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SUPPORT
RELIEF EFFORT FOR OUR PEOPLE
WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN
(THE POEM)
NVASEKIE KONNEH THANKS
THE COMMUNITY
LIMANY PREPARES FOR
ELECTION
By Issa Fofana
President Roberta Patricia Rashid And The ULAA Of Today!
Bedell Speaks!
Handing Over Taylor, "If Liberia Asks"
By Tarty
Teh
And Justice for All
By Ramses K.Nah
The Liberian Mandingoes Reconciliation
Conference Charter
Inaugural
Message from Vamba S. FOFANA
THE
EVIL THAT MEN DO LIVE AFTER THEM: THE CASE OF TAYLOR’S NOMINEES
BY MAMBU JAMES KPARGOI, II
Bridging
Liberians into the 21st Century
By
Ramses
K.Nah
Watching the Time: A Message to
the Rising Generation (Part I)
By Alvin J. Teage
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BE WARE OF PARTIAL
DISARMAMENT
UNMIL has begun disarming combatants, over 18000 so far, and according to
information obtained, it is doing on well. This is good news! Will the
on-going disarmament, demobilization, encampment, rehabilitation and
integration program be different from the 1996 disarmament program?
The reason I am asking this question is that any partial disarmament in
Liberia just to have an "elected government" is a recipe for
future disaster.
WEST
AFRICA: Major Military Exercise To Boost ECOWAS forces
ACCRA, - Some 1,200 West African soldiers are scheduled
to hold a major military air, sea and land simulation exercise to enhance
the peacekeeping capabilities of the Economic Community of West African
States (ECOWAS) in Benin next November, military chiefs said in Ghana on
Thursday.
The exercise is expected to guide the handling of future crisis situations
in a sub-region, where there are currently four peacekeeping operations
underway, in Cote d’Ivoire, Western Sahara and the UN’s biggest
missions in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
LIBERIA:
Food assistance dispatched to hungry Lofa, WFP
MONROVIA, 28 May 2004 (IRIN) - Food packages have been dispatched to
war-weary villagers near the badly hit northern provincial headquarters of
Voinjama for the first time in five years, the UN World Food Programme (WFP)
said on Friday.
Liberian
police looks for Emmanuel Mulbah, a Taylor's loyalist in the killing of US
defense contractor
A nationwide manhunt is underway for prime suspect Emmanuel Mulbah, a
23-year-old escaped convict who is said to be a militant loyal to former
president Charles Taylor in connection with the hotel room killing of a US
civilian contractor who traveled to the west African state as part of a
military assessment mission, police sources said.
LIBERIA:
Member of top US military delegation stabbed to death
MONROVIA, 25 May 2004 (IRIN) - A member of the United States Government
34-man military delegation in Liberia to help set up a new national army
was stabbed to death in his hotel room in the capital Monrovia, Monday,
said the Liberian defence minister on Tuesday.
LIBERIA:
Government warns refugees against voluntary repatriation
MONROVIA, 25 May 2004 (IRIN) - Liberia’s government warned refugees
scattered across West Africa against returning home, saying they should
wait in their country of asylum until the official UN-backed repatriation
programme begins in October.
Liberia's
Capital Struggles For Water (BBC)
 Fourteen
years of civil war have left Liberians without regular electricity and
water.
Homes are without piped water and heavily-clogged sewer tanks have
started to burst on the streets of the capital, Monrovia, causing
pollution. Monrovia was built more than 200 years ago to house the elite
sectors of society.
Civilian
With U.S. Forces Dead in Liberia ...
An American civilian employee of the U.S. European Command was found dead
Monday, apparently a homicide victim, in a Liberian hotel room, the
military said.
Crafting
A New Citizenry Of Liberians Is The Answer-Winston Tubman
 Ambassador
Winston A. Tubman, a potential presidential candidate in 2005 presidential
and general elections in Liberia, has said that Liberians must not depend
on the international community for solutions to all of their problems.
Ambassador Tubman spoke to a group of Liberians, and Somali community
leaders in Minneapolis, Sunday at the St. Andrews Episcopal Church.
Liberia
- Sanctions violations and lack of reform hinder Liberias reconstruction,
as logging industry still p ...
A new report released today by Global Witness (1) concludes that sanctions
on Liberia, specifically the timber embargo, should not be lifted at a UN
Security Council review scheduled for 17 June 2004 (2). The report titled
‘Liberia: Back to the Future, What is the future of Liberia’s forests
and its effects on regional peace’ argues that lifting sanctions before
key reforms are implemented could jeopardise international efforts to
promote peace, as major factors that helped cause Liberia and the
region’s calamity remain a threat.
Liberian
refugees end horror trip
A nightmarish three-week ferry journey has finally
ended for over 300 Liberian refugees, who have been allowed to disembark
at an Ivory Coast port. | The vessel broke down on Tuesday, prompting a
rescue mission...
FIJI
police officers came under attack in Liberia
THIRTY Fiji police officers serving with the United Nations in Liberia
came under attack from rebel forces on Tuesday morning. The officers,
accompanied by by 15,000 UN soldiers and 1500 police officers, managed to
fight off the rebels and in the process killed three of them.
Why
Not Credible Elections in 2005?
Free and fair elections are
about giving all candidates equal access and opportunity to campaign
before the voters. Free and fair elections do not mean everybody should be
happy or every condition in a country must be perfect. We do not live in a
perfect world and everything will never be perfect in the truest sense of
the word. The only perfect environment for elections is the environment in
which all concerned parties agreed to a specific set of rules for the
elections, and everyone agreed to abide by those rules doing the elections
and counting of the ballots.
Elections
in Liberia without Census Would Be Unconstitutional
 Recently
the National Elections Commission (NEC) announced that the pending
Liberian elections would be held without a census. According to an article
captioned: "No Census For 2005 Elections....Says Elections
Commission, But..." published in The Inquirer newspaper and
distributed by The Perspective website on May 7, 2004, "The
National Elections Commission (NEC) through its Chairman Cllr. Frances
Johnson-Morris, says there will be no census in the country before the
conduct of the 2005 General and presidential elections."
Liberian
refugees stranded at sea
An operation has been launched to rescue some 430 Liberian refugees on
board a ferry drifting without working engines off the West African coast.
The Nigerian-flagged Dona Elvire ferry has been at sea for more than
two weeks since it left Lagos bound for Liberia carrying mostly women and
children
“VIOLENCE
IS NECESSARY” …Says Kieh
 The
head of the New Deal Party (NDP), one of many Liberia's political parties
registered to contest the seat of the presidency says revolutionary
violence is an ultimate reason to accomplish a political goal in the
interest of the people. Dr. George Kieh said though violence is not a
good option to institute a political change, "but if all legal
and constitutional protocols are exhausted, violence becomes necessary.”
LIBERIA:
WFP warns it is running out of cash to feed needy Liberians
DAKAR, 18 May 2004 (IRIN) - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) warned on
Tuesday that it was running out of cash to feed hundreds of thousands of
displaced people within Liberia and Liberian refugees in neighbouring
Sierra Leone and Guinea and that rations may be cut in July.
LIBERIA:
One person killed in riot by former combatants, UN
DAKAR, 18 May 2004 (IRIN) - One person was killed and three or four others
were injured during a riot by 500 former combatants in the Liberian
capital Monrovia on Monday, according to Mark Kroeker, the head of the UN
international police force in Liberia.
Fighters
riot in Liberia's capital over cash
MONROVIA, May 17 (Reuters) - Hundreds of fighters who backed former
Liberian President Charles Taylor rampaged through a bustling district of
the capital on Monday armed with sticks and knives, looting stores and
smashing car windows.
Liberia:
Rehabilitation of 21,000 child soldiers in danger of failing
As the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child opens its annual meeting
today (17 May) Amnesty International has published a new report saying the
process of demobilisation and rehabilitation of thousands of child
soldiers is in danger of failing unless more resources and political will
are injected to help the estimated 21,000 children.
ULAA
BOARD FAILS TO HOLD SESSION IN DC, MAY TURN TO TELECONFERENCE
The Special Session of the
ULAA National Board of Directors, which was to be held this weekend
in Washington, DC, fell slightly short of obtaining a quorum. The session
therefore did not take place. Eleven Board members, along with one new
Board member who was to be seated, showed up for the meeting.
Pandora
Hynneh To Be Buried May 29, As Dad Arrives May 19, 2004
 The
remains of Pandora Hyneh is expected to be finally buried soon.
The
Liberian Community and the
Minnesota
Council of Churches have been working together to ensure that
Pandora is buried, and that her mother, who is currently in
Liberia
, attends the funeral.
Liberian
Rebels Suspend Cooperation With Government
MONROVIA (Reuters) -- Liberia's
biggest rebel faction said late on Friday it would stop cooperating with
the government because of a spat over a key ministerial position, casting
a pall over the country's revamped disarmament process.
Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD) said they had
given interim leader Gyude Bryant 24 hours to sack the country's finance
minister, whom they accuse of sidelining them in political decisions, but
he had failed to do so.
Saleeby
Booted Out of CBL The
Analyst (Monrovia)
 Ellie
Saleeby, the man who presided over the Central Bank of Liberia (CBL), the
nation's highest monetary institution amidst controversies and allegations
of impropriety has finally been hurried through the back door on the
insistence of a visiting IMF delegation to Liberia.
The delegation is in the country, according to our
sources, to help reconstruct Liberia's broken monetary links with the
outside world and establish conduits through which funds promised by
donors during the recent Conference on the Reconstruction of Liberia held
last February in New York.
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More "Presidents" Surface
The date for Liberia's presidential and general elections
remains uncertain, but the list of presidential hopefuls gets
longer and longer while, interestingly, the country remains
bankrupt for legislative candidates. The newest names in the
presidential theater are former deputy Information Minister J. Milton
Teahjay, former Foreign Minister Lewis G. Brown, and former National
Patriotic Party (NPP) Chairman Soko Brown.
Already, the three presidential hopefuls have reportedly
organized exploratory campaign committees and taken other actions to
enter the crowdy race to Liberia's Executive Mansion.
Freeze
assets of ex-Liberia president, banks told
THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has issued
regulations to banks in Singapore to freeze the assets, if any, of the
former president of Liberia, Charles Taylor, who went into exile in
Nigeria last year.
The new regulations, which came into force last Friday and apply to all
financial institutions, are in line with the United Nations Security
Council's Resolution 1532.
Liberia
seals oil exploration deals with two firms
MONROVIA, May 7 (Reuters) - Two international oil
firms became the first winners in a round of bidding to explore Liberia's
17 offshore blocks, the head of the National Oil Co. of Liberia said
Friday.
Spain's Repsol <REP.MC> and Oranto of
Nigeria were awarded the rights to conduct 3D exploration in the West
African country's blocks 17 and 12, respectively, said Musah Dean, the
company's president and chief executive.
Understanding
Johnson-Morris’ Election 2005 Edicts (Nat
Galarea Gbessagee)
Former Liberian chief justice Frances Johnson-Morris raised eyebrows
in Liberian social and political cycles late April 2004 when she publicly
advocated for reduction in the number of political parties in Liberia in
time for the 2005 Liberian general elections, even if achieving such
reductions meant contravening the 1986 Liberian constitution. Mrs.
Johnson-Morris, also a former head of the church-sponsored Liberian human
rights group, the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission, is the newly
appointed chairman of the National Elections Commission of Liberia (NEC),
the body charged with planning and supervising the 2005 Liberian general
elections
The
Soundness of Taylor’s Indictment
(By Alvin J. Teage)
 The
indictment against Charles M. Taylor (defendant) for crimes against
humanity has left an embarrassing mark on Liberia. This is the first time
a Liberian has been indicted for such heinous crimes, and the
defendant’s soon-to-come trial before the Special Court for Sierra Leone
is likely to generate more international attention. But does the
indictment violate Liberia’s Constitution as Mr. S.L. Lofen Keneah, Jr.
suggestion?
YOUNG LIBERIAN WRITER
SHARES HIS PAIN IN BOOK
 For Liberian writer, Nvasekie N. Konneh
(NNK), the September 11 terrorist attack on the United States was a profound
moment of deep soul searching. He shares the same religious faith with those who
masterminded this terrible act and at the same time serving in the United States
navy having taken an oath to “defend and protect America against its enemies,
foreign and domestics.”
As a way of registering his own feeling of disapproval of
this terrible crime committed in the name of a religion, NNK was inspired to
write a book entitled “ Going To War For America”, which he officially launched
Saturday (April 24) at a well-attended program at the ACANA Hall in
Philadelphia. The book is a collection of poetry.
ULAA
Leadership Invited To Sweden
 The Liberian Association of Sweden has extended an
invitation to ULAA's President, Madam Roberta Rashid to participate in the
planned All-Liberian Conference and Musical Concert in Stockholm, Sweden, 3rd
June to 5th June.
The President of LASWEDEN, Hon. James Sackor
Bartee: "We are of the opinion that this will be a time for Liberians to
recollect and reconcile with one another. The conference will provide Liberians
and friends of Liberia living in Sweden and abroad the opportunity to express
their views of the Liberian situation providing positive suggestions with
regards to the development of our human resources and infrastructure."
A
BIG THANK YOU TO ALL
The FOFANAS, including their spouses and immediate and distant relatives,
residing in Continental Africa (Liberia, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Sierra
Leone, Mali, etc.) and outside of Continental Africa, including the United
States, Europe, and Asia, would like to exploit this occasion to extend
their sincerest and heartfelt thanks and appreciation to all the good and
amicable people who have sympathized and continue to sympathize with them
on the deaths of their beloved ones, Mohammed A. FOFANA and Vamuyan FOFANA
(alias, Kanvee Muyan FOFANA), which sad events occurred about a
fortnight ago in Conakry and Macenta, Guinea, West Africa. May their souls
rest in perfect peace and light perpetual shine on them, Ameen!
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