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Breaking News: Former VP Moniba is dead
Former vice president of Liberia
, Dr. Harry Fumba Moniba, is dead. Confirmed reports this evening
said Dr. Moniba died in a tragic motor accident in Detroit, Michigan.
Lawmaker,
Ellen want Bryant's government audited for corruption
A
member of the National Transitional Legislative Assembly (NTLA),
James Banney is calling for an "immediate independent audit of
the National Transitional Government of Liberia.
10,000
Ivorians Flee to Liberia
The U.N. refugee agency says that more than 10,000 Ivorians have
fled into neighboring Liberia, causing a new strain in the country
that is trying to recover from more than 14 years of civil war.
Liberian
tanker fire near Dardanelles under control
ANKARA (AFP) - Turkish firefighting tugs brought
a fire under control that erupted off western Turkey aboard a
Liberian tanker carrying 74,000 tonnes of Russian crude, a maritime
official told AFP. |
COTE
D IVOIRE-LIBERIA: By canoe or by foot, thousands of Ivorians arrive
in search of safety
BUTUO, 22 Nov 2004 (IRIN) - When 70-year-old Marie Mangou ran away
from her home in Cote d'Ivoire, she trekked for hours through dense
jungle and crammed into a creaking canoe to reach the safety of
neighbouring Liberia. Now the feisty grandmother cannot manage
another step.
The
missing iron ore in
Liberia
concerns us all!
 Who
authorized the sale of the iron ore in Buchanan? Who’s benefiting
from the proceeds of the sale? Of the total sale, how much went to
the citizens of Nimba and Grand Bassa counties? Were the former
employees paid? Will the local people in mineral rich counties in
Liberia EVER benefit directly from their natural
resources?
SCHOOL
EXPELS JEHOVAH WITNESS STUDENTS
As
religious tension continue to rock the country, a strange phenomenon
has developed in Monrovia, this time between the Christian
groups with decree beliefs.
Liberians
open homes to Ivory Coast refugees
Poor survivors of Liberia's 15 years of vicious civil wars -- which
only recently ended -- were amazed to find themselves opening their
homes to civilians fleeing what for decades was West Africa's most
peaceful and prosperous nation.
MUSLIM
CONGRESS HIGH GETS $28,000.00 FROM USIAD
The
United States Agency for International Development (USAID), through
the office of the Transitional Initiative has embarked on providing
funds for the renovations of two schools, the Muslim
Congress High and the H.A. Gessner Lutheran School. These schools
were among those damaged during recent Monrovia violence.
LIBERIA'S
DIAMOND SANCTIONS TO BE LIFTED, ESTABLISHES APPRAISING OFFICES
The
UN backed Diamond Sanctions imposed on Liberia is to
shortly be lifted following an invitation extended the Government
of Liberia by the Chairman of the Kimberley Diamond Certification
Scheme to attend the organization’s annual plenary in Quebec,
Canada, Liberia's Land, Lands, Mines and Energy Minister told
journalists Monday.
LIBERIA:
WFP Appeals for 18.7 million dollars to avert food shortfall
MONROVIA, 16 Nov 2004 (IRIN) - The World Food Programme (WFP) said
on Tuesday it needed an additional 18.7 million US dollars to avert
a food shortfall from now through the first quarter of next year in
Liberia as a result of an increasing demand for food aid.
George Weah
Finally Joins Race for the Presidency At last, football
legendary George Oppong Weah has announced his intention to contest
the Liberian presidency during the forthcoming general and
presidential elections slated for October, 2005.
"UN
Will Be Responsible For My Death"
-Speak Dweh
Writes Kofi Annan
The Speaker of the Liberia National
Transitional Legislative Assembly (NTLA), George Dweh has accused
United Nation, Special Representative, Jacques Klein of unfair
treatment and that there were plan to assassinate him in Monrovia.
DISUNITY
BREEDS CATASTROPHE
 The need for unity among people of the
Liberian Mandingoes community home and abroad has been stressed.
Liberian human right activist observed the recent outbreak of
violence in the Liberian capital that resulted into the loss of
lives and destruction of properties is a result of disunity among
Liberians.
Ivorian
exodus to Liberia tops 10,000, evokes concerns of food crisis
Ivorians are flooding into Liberia by the thousands to avoid
being caught between rebels and government troops, UN humanitarian
agencies said in an appeal to help shore up meagre resources in the
war-battered state.
Scared
Ivorians flee into Liberia
More than 10,000 Ivorians flee into Liberia as an immediate arms
embargo is imposed on Ivory Coast.
Quadu
Gboni Assoc. Denies News Report
The Quadu Gboni University Students Association of the University of
Liberia has strongly denied media report that the Muslim community
was planning to attack Christians at the end of Ramadan.
MANDINGOPHOBIA
The
2005 elections will have so many interesting highs; I don’t want
to speculate on the lows. One group continues to cause a stir in the
politics * the Mandingoes.’Oh, you don’t know the Mandingo
people, too, are citizens’’ some people often remarked as if
they are doing one a favor. Is either a play in sarcasm or a stark
ignorance or both?
UNHCR
helps Liberia respond to continued Ivorian influx
BUTUO, Liberia, Nov 15 (UNHCR) –
Over the past week, the small town of Butuo, located at the border
with Côte d'Ivoire in the north-east of Liberia, has become a
reception centre for thousands of Ivorian refugees fleeing the
unrest in their country. UNHCR estimates that, as of Sunday, some
10,000 Ivorians had crossed the border into Liberia, with new
arrivals still coming in every day.
Thousands
Of Ivorians Seek Shelter In Liberia
BUTUO, Liberia, Nov 12 (AFP) - Panicked Ivory Coast nationals from
its western border region are flooding into Liberia to escape
mounting tensions in a country which was once the anchor of
stability for troubled west Africa.
Influx
of Ivorian refugees puts strain on Liberia...
MONROVIA, 11 November (IRIN) - Around 5,000
frightened Ivorians have raced across the border into eastern Liberia
since the crisis in their homeland erupted
Yasser Arafat
(1929-2004)
 Whatever
personal judgment one has about the late President Yasser Arafat, he
was a huge figure in the Middle East and in other parts of the
world. LIMANY Editorial Board expresses condolences to President
Arafat's family and to the Palestinian people. It is hoped that the
Palestinian people will, in the near future, have an independent and
democratic state that will serve their hopes and aspirations. (By
The Editors)
LIBERIA:
Refugees head home from Guinea
DAKAR, 10 November (IRIN) - The first of around 150,000 Liberians
who are to be repatriated from Guinea, where some spent more than a
decade in camps, headed home on Wednesday, a UNHCR spokeswoman said.
NTGL
ASSURES MANDINGO CAUCUS
The
President of the National Mandingo Caucus of Liberia, Musa Bility
has announced that following a meeting between his organization and
the Chairman of the NTGL, Charles Gyude Bryant, his organization has
been assured by the Transitional Government that Mandingo will not
be witch-hunt by any government security agency in the aftermath of
the 4-day violence in Monrovia.
FRESH
DISARMAMENT TAKES PLACE IN MONROVIA
The United Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) over the weekend, disarmed
several former officers of the disbanded Special Operations Division
(SOD).
WITHOUT
FURTHER DELAY, HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP DEMANDS LEGISLATORS TO PASS REFORM
BILL
The
Catholic Justice and Peace Commission (JPC) publicly is demanding
the National Transitional Legislative Assembly to pass into law,
without delay, the electoral reform bill submitted to it by the
National Elections Commission (NEC).
Liberian
fighters enter Ivory Coast, refugees say
MONROVIA, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Former fighters from Liberia are
crossing into Ivory Coast to work as guns for hire after hostilities
resumed in their West African neighbour, civilians fleeing the
violence said on Tuesday.
Liberia
refugees start to return
Liberia and the UN refugee agency have begun the huge task of
returning an estimated 500,000 internally-displaced Liberians to
their home regions.
LIBERIA:
IDPs begin heading for home
MONROVIA, 8 Nov 2004 (IRIN) - Chanting “no more war” and praying
for peace, a first batch of 500 internally displaced Lpeople (IDPs)
headed home on Monday from a camp where they had lived for years, as
the UN and Liberia's government kicked off a scheme to resettle
300,000 IDPs.
Councilman
Dexter Tahyor Dies of Cancer
 Minneapolis,
11/04/04 (SIS) - A member of Liberia's first five-man Council of
State, the collective presidency that succeeded Amos Sawyer's
Interim Government of National Unity (IGNU), is dead.
Liberia
name coach
Liberia Football Association has appointed Joseph Sayon as
caretaker coach for the national team until March 2005
Bush
meat trade threatens Liberia's biodiversity
The trade of bush meat has become a very big commercial business in Liberia
as it is posing serious threat to the country's biodiversity
UN
appeals for 58 million dollars in extra aid to help Liberian ex ...
Program (UNDP) on Thursday appealed to world governments to provide
58 million US dollars in extra aid to help 47,000 ex-fighters in
war-torn Liberia
Kromah
wants rioters investigated
Prof.
Alhaji G.V.Kroman, Former Member of the 6-Man Council of State has
added his voice by condemning Monrovia’s recent civil
disturbance, which took away several lives and the destructions
properties including churches and mosques.
SEARCHING
WITHIN OUR OWN SOULS
Once again, just this past week as the matter of
fact, senseless violence has reared its ugly head in our ‘poor’
country, Liberia, particularly the bullet-scarred seaside capital
city of Monrovia and its adjourning suburbs.
Liberia
officially disbands fighting factions in shadow of capital riots
Liberia dismantled its warring factions to
close the book on 14 years of war against the backdrop of new
violence in the capital and amid concerns that promises to
rehabilitate ex-combattants have yet to be fulfilled.
Liberia's
former warring factions disband
MONROVIA, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Liberia's rebel and
militia groups formally disbanded on Wednesday in line with a peace
deal signed last year, urging their fighters to turn in any
remaining weapons to United Nations troops
Ahamadiyya
Muslims Denounce Attacks On Churches, Mosques
Muslims of the Ahamadiyya Faith have condemned the
weekend destruction of lives and properties by rioters in Monrovia
and its eastern suburbs.
Mandingo
Caucus Calls for Co-Existence, Wants Perpetrators Prosecuted
The Chairman of a group calling itself "Mandingo
Caucus of Liberia" has described the recent riots in Monrovia
and its suburbs as unfortunate and has meanwhile called for
co-existence.
Cape
Mountianians abhor "religious violence" in Liberia
The National Association
of Cape Mountainians in the Americas, Inc. (NACA) has categorically
condemned the recent violence in Monrovia and its environs under the pretext
of a "religious" feud, and wants the perpetrators of
that carnage to bear the full weight of the law.
FOLLOWING
RECENT MONROVIA'S BLOODBATH;
UNMIL Round Up 398 Persons, Big Names Involved
Amid the recent madness
which engulfed Monrovia and its environ, the Chairman of the
Liberian Transitional Government, Charles Gyude Bryant disclosed
that the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) has so far,
arrested 398 persons in connection of last week Monrovia
bloodbath.
'I
WAS ATTACK FOR ENFORCING UNMIL MANDATE' -Says
Justice Minister, Points Fingers at Former GOL Officials
The Minister of Justice
and Attorney General of the Republic of Liberia, Cllr. Kabineh
Ja'neh said he narrowly escaped death from the hands of angry mob
last Friday, October 29, 2004.
Calm
returns to Liberia after factional violence and looting UN
Rivals within a former Liberian rebel group were
responsible for last week s flare-up in violence which was calmed
after United Nations forces deployed throughout the area, a
spokesman for the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) said today.
THE
SIGNS WERE EVERYWHERE, WE JUST IGNORED IT (LIMANY
EDITORIAL)
Every body is now expressing shock and disbelieve
over the ethnically and religiously motivated violence that has been
rocking Monrovia in recent days. But if we take into consideration
the developments since the beginning of this month, we should not be
surprised why mosques and churches have been burnt.
UN
confiscates weapons in riot-torn Liberia
The United Nations has opened a new phase in its
effort to return peace to Liberia with door-to-door searches for
weapons, criminal prosecutions of those still holding arms and
authorization to use force to subdue belligerents.
Taylor's
men 'not behind riots'
 A
member of former president Charles Taylor's government has denied
involvement in riots in Liberia's capital which left 16 dead.
The UN blames former combatants of being behind
the violence which has threatened the fragile peace process.
Muslim
Council Condemns Violence
Whatever the cause of this unhealthy episode, the
National Muslim Council of Liberia condemns it in its entirety in no
uncertain term, referring to it as barbaric and unacceptable.”
This statement by the Muslim Council on state radio over the weekend
contended that the National Muslim Council of Liberia sees the act
by the perpetrators to be inviting serious religious war between
peaceful Christians and Muslims, who have lived together in harmony
from time in memorial on national hope and aspiration, and enjoyed
equal rights and opportunity as guaranteed by the laws of the land.
UN
mission chief says robust peacekeeping patrols enforcing ...
The United Nations mission chief today said relative calm has
returned to Liberia after "robust" peacekeeping and local
police patrols responded to incidents and enforced the curfew
countering the violence that started last Thursday in the West
African country.
AU
condemns violence in Liberia ...
Africa News, BEIJING: -- The African Union has condemned violence
that has left at least eight people dead in Liberia since riots
broke out in the capital on Thursday.
Mass
arrests after Liberia riots
Mr Klein said there were several flash points which were used by
former combatants, especially those linked to Mr. Taylor, to try to
destabilize the country. "What we are seeing are the death
throes of the [old] regime," he told the BBC.
Christian-Moslem
Violence in Liberia
I am deeply
saddened by the latest reports of Christian-Moslem violence in
Liberia but I am not surprised. We've been sitting on this time bomb
for years and it was just a matter of time before it exploded.
One
killed in Liberia riots
MONROVIA, Liberia (Reuters) -- One person was killed on
Sunday when mobs of youths rioted on the streets of the Liberian
capital, carrying out apparent revenge attacks for killings during
religious sectarian violence on Friday, witnesses said.
Land
Dispute turned into deadly Ethnic-Religion Violence -
10
people dead, several houses and business burnt
Liberia government has
imposed a daylight curfew after ethnic violence spread across
Monrovia that killed at least 10 people and destroyed dozen of
religious centers and business.
Let
Liberians in the Diaspora act now!
We got a disheartening
news this morning of a religious disturbance in our already bleeding
nation Liberia.
While we await full
account on how and why such an ugly situation found it way between
people of our two major religion, we want to admonish every Liberian
, particularly those in the Diaspora to treat the situation with
caution.
ULAA
DENOUNCES RENEW ACTS OF VIOLENCE IN LIBERIA
Press
Release-Report
coming out of Monrovia this morning indicates that there is a
massive outbreak of violence in the City leading to the destruction
of lives and properties. The report further indicates that the
conflict may have religious undertone, with the burning of
churches and mosques in the Monrovia area.
Violence
Erupts In Liberia
AP) Mobs of angry youths brandishing machetes, sticks and
Kalashnikov rifles rampaged through Liberia's war-shattered
capital on Friday in a rare outbreak of Muslim-Christian violence,
prompting the country's leader to order an immediate round-the-clock
curfew
Riots
rock Monrovia before end to disarmament
Gunshots were heard until early on Friday as angry youths carrying
stones and sticks roamed the streets of the Liberian capital,
Monrovia, two days before the scheduled end of a United Nations
campaign to disarm fighters from the West African state's civil war.
Curfew
Ordered in Troubled Liberia
Interim head of state Gyude Bryant ordered an immediate daylight
curfew in Monrovia after violence and sporadic gunfire broke out
Friday in Liberia's war-shattered capital.
Liberia
slaps curfew on capital after riots
MONROVIA, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Liberia slapped an immediate
curfew on the capital Monrovia on Friday after stick-wielding youths
rampaged through the costal city, burning buildings, petrol stations
and vehicles.
UN
launches education program in Liberia
Monrovia, Liberia - The United Nations officially launched a
nationwide programme to help educate thousands of former combatants
in this war-battered West African nation.
Mr. Jonathan Salzinger Honored with President’s
Volunteer Service Award for Work in Support of Humanitarian Causes
in Liberia
Award is a Prestigious National Honor for Volunteer Service,
presented by the President George W. Bush and the President’s
Council on Service and Civic Participation.
Tolbert
appointed Liberian Ambassador to China
The
Chairman of the National Transitional Government of Liberia has
commissioned Mrs. Neh Dukuly Tolbert as
Liberia
Ambassador to the People's Republic of
China
"Nothing
will stop 2005 elections, even if we have to stop civil servants'
salary"
- NTGL Chairman vows
The
Chairman of the Liberian Transitional Government, Charles Gyude
Bryant has declared that his "primary priority" is the
holding of General and Presidential elections in 2005.
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