Implementation of a post war governance reform, which devotes considerable powers of the president and the legislature to local government authorities has started across the country.
The veteran politician has been holding talks with her deputy Joseph Boakai who now heads the former ruling party as they bid to retake state power, people with knowledge of the interaction have told the Oracle News Daily.
The National Elections Commission has overcome technical and operational glitches associated with its biometric system and is now registering over 100,000 people daily.
The House of Representatives has launched an inquest regarding the actual number of foreign personnel working with Firestone Liberia Inc. – a subsidiary of Bridgestone Americas.
An estimated $300,000 United States dollars appropriated for the functioning of Legislature’s research and information unit cannot be accounted for, rendering the entity useless.
University of Hawaiʻi has sent To a scientists to study insect-borne viruses in Liberia. Albert To will research ways to help the country determine where the viruses are present. The John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) postdoctoral researcher received the 2022 Robert E. Shope International Fellowship from the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
Liberia is among 11 countries along with Sierra Leone that are the most vulnerable in the world and have the fewest resources in terms of domestic fiscal space and international support to fight climate change, a new report published March 21 said.
Since the end of the Liberian civil war in 2003 and the return of democracy, Prince Yormie Johnson, the notorious warlord of the 1990s has used his dominance in vote rich Nimba County to cut political deals, playing a spoiler role to advantage a leading presidential candidate.
