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Guinea: Communication minister resigns
Guinea's Minister of Communication Justin Morel Junior has resigned from government and this brings the number to three civilian ministers to resign amidst growing international pressure. He said: he no longer had the "moral strength to deliver the word of the government." - From all indications, the lifespan of the military junta in Guinea is being leapfrogged amid the wave of international criticism and resignations of senior officials.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has commenced investigation into the September 28 brutal repression in the Guinean capital, leaving over 150 persons dead. This lands further trouble to the junta’s future.
The European Union is calling for…Cameroonian in Facebook dragnet
A young Cameroonian, Maxi Sopo, is currently languishing in a cell of Mexico City for allegedly defrauding USA banks of $200,000. Law enforcement agents grabbed him for inadvertently disclosing his hideouts on Facebook, a social network. - Cameroon-born Maxi, 26, is said to have, with the help of an associate, falsely obtained “more than $200,000 in credit from banks”.
Maxi has been on the run, wanted for fraud by US authorities, according to the BBC. However, Maxi revealed his where about through “series of extravagant Facebook updates”. According to the report, his Facebook messages indicated he was living a lavish life in the Mexican resort of Cancun. Maxi’…Liberian President receives world cup trophy
The FIFA world cup trophy has been received by Africa's first female elected president, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and is currently on display in the Liberian capital, Monrovia. The coveted 18-carat gold-plated trophy spent the night in Liberia having arrived Monday evening from neighboring Sierra Leone on tour of Africa. - Frenzy had been created for the cup by the constant texting of messages to mobile users in the country by a local mobile company, keeping track of the trophy’s location and destination for like a month before the Monday arrival. Disappointingly, local officials announced later that there would be restriction on the turnout for viewing.
Many had hoped the cup be displa…Liberia call for ECOWAS summit on Guinea
The government of Liberia wants an urgent meeting of ECOWAS countries and the ICG-G to discuss the growing wave of tension in neighboring Guinea. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the International Contact Group for Guinea (ICG-G) is working to bring peace to Guinea and the entire sub region. - Liberia is a perfect example of the peace initiatives of ECOWAS and International Contact Group.
In a dispatch from the Foreign Ministry, the Liberian government frowns on the recent killing of several unarmed civilians in the Guinean capitol of Conakry last week by the Guinea army. “The Liberian government has expressed grave concern over events unfolding in neighbor…Liberian president sues newspaper for libel
The Liberian leader president Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has filed a lawsuit against the New Broom newspaper for libel, amounting to $5 million in damages. The paper recently accused president Sirleaf of receiving US$2 million as kickback to favor a company for control of the Cavalla Robber Plantation in the south eastern region of Liberia. - Journalist Robert Worwee who is the Managing Editor of the paper said he stands by his story in spite of the court action.
Article 61 of the Liberian constitution immunes the presidency from “any suites, actions or proceedings, judicial or otherwise…..”
The president’s stance has sparked a huge debate in the country, some feel…Guinea releases Liberia ex-rebel leader
Erstwhile Liberian rebel leader Sekou Demate Conneh has been released from prison in Guinea. The man who led the defunct Liberia United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD) had his freedom restored by the military junta of Captain Moussa Dedis Camara and ordered to leave Guinea in 72 hours. - Sekou was arrested and detained months ago on allegations of subversion but he denied it. His force oversaw the premature departure of ex-president Chares Taylor from power in 2003.
Local media is quoting a publicist of Conneh - Mark Jabateh - that the former presidential candidate in the 2005 Liberian elections was released upon the intervention of the ECOWAS through Sierra Leonean president Earn…LFA leadership: Continuity or interruption?
Past Liberia Football Association (LFA) elections have been dominated by a catchphrase - "continuity". The cliché was even much overriding in the immediate past election of the football house. - The coined terminology means carrying forward incumbent LFA presidents (not the entire leadership) into renewed tenure of responsibility, at any length and span, disregarding precedence.
Mirroring the current presidency of the LFA, one is obliged to effort much begging quarries as to the need for continuity or interruption in leadership come the pending LFA elections. I opt for the latter!
Steadiness, permanence, stability, solidity, calmness and evenness, are but a few synonyms or similar con…US to provide $17m for Liberia election
US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton has called on lawmakers in Liberia to enact laws to fight against corruption. She said the fight against corruption cannot be won in the absence of regulatory framework that would hold people accountable and bring them to book. - Clinton also urged the Lawmakers to put into place an electoral system that will ensure free, fair and democratic elections in 2011. She said due to America’s interest in the pending elections of 2011, the US will provide US$17.5m.
Clinton is on a tour of Africa which commenced in east Africa. She is currently on the last leg of her tour to the island country of Cape verde having left Liberia Thursday night following a f…Liberia hosts Chinese Supreme Court lords
The Liberian leader, Johnson Sirleaf, has received justices of the Supreme Court of China at the temporary seat of government in Monrovia. - Madam Sirleaf recounted China’s quest to help rebuild war ravaged Liberia. She also reassured Liberia’s commitment to the one China policy. The president “lauded the government of China for its continuous support to Liberia’s reconstruction, stressing the need to further strengthen Sino-Liberia relations,” a release from the seat of government said.
The release said the People’s Republic of China Supreme Court Justices were accompanied by the Chief Justice of the Liberia Supreme Court, Johnnie Lewis, along with his…Liberia: Death hits national legislature again
Liberia's national legislature has been hit by yet another death under the President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf administration. The death of Senator Hannah Brent of the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) brings the death toll to seven since 2006. It has brought panic among members and general public. - Senator Brent was among five females of the male dominated Senate and once chairperson of the committee on gender and development. Brent is said to have lived with a swollen leg before succumbing to death Monday evening at the SD Copper Hospital in Sinkor in Monrovia.
Hannah is the third senator, after Samuel Timottie and Isaac Johnson, to give up the ghost. While the lower House or the House …Defense lawyer of Taylor falls ill
The lead defense lawyer of Charles Taylor has fallen ill to food poison, causing a brief adjournment of the trial taking place in The Hague. - The former Liberian leader, Taylor, is being tried by the hybrid court for Sierra Leone sitting in The Hague for his alleged involvement in the country’s 11-year civil war. Mr. Taylor, who is currently taking the witness stance, has denied all 11 charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes levied against him, terming them as lies.
Courtenay Griffiths’ ailment was announced Tuesday by a colleague of the defense counsel who pleaded with judges for adjournment. The request was granted by the court with the case expected to resume mid…Liberia honours Namibian president
The government of Liberia has conferred its highest honor on the president of Namibia, Hifikepunye Pohamba. The distinction, the Grand Cordon in the Most Venerable Order of Knighthood of the Pioneers of Liberia, was conferred on the Namibian leader by President Ellen Sirleaf last Wednesday in Monrovia. - The Liberian leader recounted the outstanding and sacrificial services of president Pohamba in the liberation struggle for independence of his country. In her citation conferring the distinction, the Liberian leader further recalled, among others, the Namibian leader’s role dating back to 1974 and 1978 when he travelled to Tanzania and Zambia for military training and his leadership ro…Hillary Clinton visits seven African nations
US Secretary of State, Hilary Rodham Clinton, next month embarks on a seven-nation tour of Africa to include the continent's oldest independent nation, Liberia. Clinton's trip begins 5 August in Nairobi, Kenya at the 8th Sub-Saharan Africa Trade and Economic Cooperation Forum, known as the AGOA Forum. - The Secretary of State also visits South Africa, Angola, DR Congo, Nigeria and Cape Verde. The trip of Africa highlights President Barack Obama administration’s commitment to making Africa a priority in US foreign policy.
Clinton’s trip comes a few weeks following president Obama’s visit to Ghana. A government source in Monrovia said the US iconic Secretary will visit the…Nigerian sentenced for life in Liberia
A Nigerian youth has been sentenced for life in prison in Liberia for murdering one Joshua Teajay Dennis, a young Liberian. Chukwudi IFejika, was found guilty by a 12-member empanelled jury at the Temple of Justice in Monrovia Tuesday. - He now spends the rest of life at the Monrovia Central Prison Compound or a place of convenience by the Liberian government as evoked by the court’s Presiding Judge, Emmanuel k. Ware, in his final judgment.
In March this year, Ifejika killed Dennis after stabbing him in the chest and left shoulder several times with a long kitchen knife during a fight that erupted between them at the Big Apple night Club in the Monrovia suburb of Paynesville over a…Liberia: UN troop on high alert
The United Nations Peace Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) has vowed to quell any attempts to hinder the existing peace in the country. The robust military mission said it is keen and alerted on growing developments in and out of the country, informing would-be trouble makers to retreat. - UNMIL’s caveat comes pointing at two unfolding issues - the allegations that the Junta government in neighboring Guinea is alleging military operations on its borders and the threats of violence by former warlords following the release of the country’s Truth Commission final report, recommending prosecution, among others.
Speaking at the UNMIL regular press briefing in Monrovia on Thursday, UNMIL f…Liberia: Government debunks Taylor claim
The Liberian government has distanced its president of allegation that she was a founding member and fundraiser of the Charles Taylor rebel movement. Liberia's Deputy Information Minister Clutus Sieh said claims by Taylor that president Sirleaf played a major role in the NPFL bloodbath is far fetched. - He said his boss president Sirleaf maintains she only contributed $10, 000 for “humanitarian services” in the early days of the war. Thus, Taylor’s assertion is a categorical “falsehood and a diabolical lie meant to implicate the sitting president of Liberia”.
He said this is a plot to besmear the president’s character so as to put her and others “…Taylor indicts Liberia president Sirleaf
Former warlord and Liberia president Charles Taylor indicted the sitting president of Liberia Sirleaf Johnson for fully supporting the uprising to unseat slain president Samuel Doe. Speaking at his trial in The Hague, he said Sirleaf was not only a financier but a founding member of his movement. - In his testimony as a self-witness, Taylor said: “Ah…Ellen raised most of the money that we needed for all of this movement in the early stage and even, doing combat.” He was responding to questions from his lead defense counsel Courtenay Griffith.
Taylor is facing 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity in neighboring Sierra Leone during that country’s noxio…
