Americo-Liberians: The 17th Tribe of Liberia – Part I

By Siahyonkron Nyanseor        “Americo-Liberians: The 17th Tribe of Liberia” is a two parts series. Part I will look at various sources such as the Bible, Greeks, Romans and Anglo-Saxon (English) cultures; and what Cultural Anthropologists say about tribe, before arriving at a working definition and all that encompasses tribe. One of my main reasons [...]

Liberia’s Finance Minister Sets Conditions For Disbursing County Development Funds

Monrovia - Finance minister Amara Konneh says County Council Resolutions on sound development projects and financial statements are conditions for disbursing county development funds.

‘Double Standard on Press Freedom’: Press Union Slams President Sirleaf, Lifts Blackout

Monrovia - The Press Union of Liberia has lifted the blackout it imposed on the Liberian Presidency on May 9, 2013. The PUL reached the decision on Tuesday following a meeting of its members at the union’s headquarters.

The Transformation Of The Sierra Leone ‘Public Sphere’

By Mohamed Sankoh (One Drop) : It is with great sadness, heavy heart and horrible honesty that I’m now informing my readers that the traditional or mainstream media in Sierra Leone—newspapers, radio and television—no longer have monopoly over how the news should be processed and interpreted because there is not only alternative media in the [...]

ACC empowers physically challenged persons in Tonkolili District

The Northern Regional Office of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has empowered physically challenged persons in Tonkolili District to stand against corrupt individuals and institutions.  This was done in a sensitization meeting with members of the Tonkolili District Disabled Association (TDDA) in Magburaka on Monday 20th May 2013. The Regional Manager ACC North, Mr. Patrick Sandi told [...]

Teenage Pregnancy And The Driving Forces

By Sydney Pratt -Publisher of The Trumpet Newspaper of Freetown : The recent establishment of National Strategic Plan for teenage pregnancy as spearheaded by President Koroma is a novelty that every Sierra Leonean should embrace for safeguarding the future of the girl child in this country. Teenage Pregnancy is a long time problem that led the [...]

Teenage Pregnancy And The Driving Forces

By Sydney Pratt -Publisher of The Trumpet Newspaper of Freetown : The recent establishment of National Strategic Plan for teenage pregnancy as spearheaded by President Koroma is a novelty that every Sierra Leonean should embrace for safeguarding the future of the girl child in this country. Teenage Pregnancy is a long time problem that led the [...]

Vice Chancellors Work to Connect Sierra Leone’s Universities With Diaspora Scholars and US Colleagues

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 20 May 2013.  Kalamazoo, Michigan. Vice Chancellors Professor Abu Sesay of Njala University and Professor Jonas Redwood-Sawyerr of University of Sierra Leone have been the focus of much academic attention in Kalamazoo, Michigan (USA) where they recently met with US and Diaspora colleagues to develop an action agenda for “Reconnecting the Academy [...]

Vice Chancellors Work to Connect Sierra Leone’s Universities With Diaspora Scholars and US Colleagues

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 20 May 2013.  Kalamazoo, Michigan. Vice Chancellors Professor Abu Sesay of Njala University and Professor Jonas Redwood-Sawyerr of University of Sierra Leone have been the focus of much academic attention in Kalamazoo, Michigan (USA) where they recently met with US and Diaspora colleagues to develop an action agenda for “Reconnecting the Academy [...]

Sierra Leone Nationals Association in the Emirates formed in Dubai

  By Alhaji Jalloh : Sierra Leoneans in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) last week held a one-day meeting of all their nationals in the commercial city of Dubai. At the end of the meeting, they officially formed what they called ‘The Sierra Leone Nationals’ Association in the Emirates,” (SLNAE) with Ibrahim Bah as their [...]

Sierra Leone Nationals Association in the Emirates formed in Dubai

  By Alhaji Jalloh : Sierra Leoneans in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) last week held a one-day meeting of all their nationals in the commercial city of Dubai. At the end of the meeting, they officially formed what they called ‘The Sierra Leone Nationals’ Association in the Emirates,” (SLNAE) with Ibrahim Bah as their [...]

Charles Margai’s disrespect and bullying tactics towards First Lady unacceptable

  By: John Pa Baimba Sesay :   Charles Margai Esq., actually got the needed media hype;(against him), he had time with police officers, or yes, he was their guest for some 66 hours; he was all over the place and the international media was not spared of this political hoax by a controversial figure in Sierra [...]

Girl Child Network Embraced World’s Children’s Prize

Girl Child Network Embraced World’s Children’s Prize By Alhassan Spear Kamara Sierra Leone’s most renowned child right organization called Girl Child Network situated on Circular road in central Freetown,  headed by its erudite executive director Victor Renner, has joined other child welfare groups the world over to observe the World’s Children’s Prize for the rights [...]

Girl Child Network Embraced World’s Children’s Prize

Girl Child Network Embraced World’s Children’s Prize By Alhassan Spear Kamara Sierra Leone’s most renowned child right organization called Girl Child Network situated on Circular road in central Freetown,  headed by its erudite executive director Victor Renner, has joined other child welfare groups the world over to observe the World’s Children’s Prize for the rights [...]

Speech delivered by Hon. I.B. Kargbo – Special Adviser to the President – at the Opening of the Refurbished Government Printing Department

Speech delivered by Hon. I.B. Kargbo Special Adviser to the President (Representative of H.E. the President) Opening of the Refurbished Government Printing Department Tuesday 21st May, 2013 @ 10:00 a.m. Mr. Chairman, Ministers of Government, Members of Parliament, the Government Printer and staff, the Executive Chairman of Zoom Lion and the Excellent Printing Press of [...]

Speech delivered by Hon. I.B. Kargbo – Special Adviser to the President – at the Opening of the Refurbished Government Printing Department

Speech delivered by Hon. I.B. Kargbo Special Adviser to the President (Representative of H.E. the President) Opening of the Refurbished Government Printing Department Tuesday 21st May, 2013 @ 10:00 a.m. Mr. Chairman, Ministers of Government, Members of Parliament, the Government Printer and staff, the Executive Chairman of Zoom Lion and the Excellent Printing Press of [...]

Storm renders several homeless

Over ten persons have been made homeless when a storm unroofed their house in the slum community of Crab Hole on the Bushrod Island, outside Monrovia. Crab Hole is located in St. Paul Bridge Community, District # 16 Montserrado County. The heartbreaki...

Gov’t silent over reported sale of Japanese donated rice in Guinea

The Government of Liberia (GOL) through the Ministry of Commerce & Industry is yet to comment on the reported sale of a huge consignment Japanese donated rice to Liberia in neighboring Guinea. Last week, the Heritage, based on cogent reports obtain...

A Nation’s Agony: the Loss of a Fearless Patriot

Although Michael Francis is dead and gone, his legacy of social justice and moral values shall remain with us By Joe Teh Liberia went into a complete silence on Sunday. News of the death o  f Archbishop Michael Francis was unbelievable. Anyone who passed on the news to another person was cautious before it backfires. But this is what happens when great men of honor and high moral standing in society die. So the man who became the lone voice in the land of mischievous tyrants and military despots for 50 years, is no more. Archbishop Francis became ill following a stroke that paralyzed him in 2004. He has since been limited to personal activities related to his recovery process; although he never really recovered fully up to his death on Sunday. Messages of condolences immediately began pouring in from all over the world.  Many described his untimely passing as an irreparable loss to a nation still needing his advocacy and  moral counsel. “He was the conscience of Liberia in the last two decades,” writes one sympathizer on his blog. “Although he’s now dead,” the blogger wrote, “his legacy of social justice and moral values will remain with us.” Ordained [...]

‘Becoming Human Again’: Liberia’s Fistula Survivors Share Stories of Redemption

Monrovia - Victoria Kanu, 30, sits in front of her sewing machine turning the wheels as she puts the finishing lines to the dress of a waiting customer. She looks happy and alive as she tells FrontPageAfrica her ordeal that led her to contracting F...

Recalling a Great Life: Reactions Pouring in for Late Archbishop Michael Francis

Monrovia - The death of Roman Catholic Archbishop Michael Francis at 77 is drawing reactions from all quarters with many at home and abroad recalling the late clergyman’s fight against injustice. Archbishop Francis had been ill since 2004 after suffering a stroke.