President Joe Boakai’s government is gradually taking shape with four days in office with the nomination of 12 individuals to serve in cabinet amidst controversy over credentials and snubbing of the youthful generation.
The Ministry of Health of Liberia, in collaboration with Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, World Health Organization (WHO), and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), have announced the arrival of 112,000 doses of the RTS,S malaria vaccine- the first ever in Liberia. Studies have shown that children under five in Liberia experience high rates of malaria infection with a prevalence rate of 10%
Liberia’s two main political parties - the Unity Party and the Congress for Democratic are sharing a self-contradictory status despite fortune in the country’s post war political landscape.
“When I am given the chance to serve the people of Liberia, I will be prepared to defend my record and credentials before the Senate,” Sara Beysolow Nyanti
Former Foreign Minister Monie Captan may have played key role in the infamous removal of President Joseph Boakai as Managing Director of the state-own Liberia Petroleum Refining Company about 32 years ago in 1992.
Liberia’s new leader Joseph Boakai has pledged to revive the country’s economic fortunes and fight corruption as he delivered his first speech in the helm, which was curtailed by intense heat at the Capitol Building grounds, in Monrovia, the capital, where a swearing-in ceremony was being held for him.
Event planning and protocol management again sadly popup as a significant weak link in public service organization. Nearly every national event bears the identity of poor planning.
