By Eugene K. Myers, Monrovia The Justice Ministry says it has launched background investigation into an alleged secret deal entered into by the vice standard bearer of the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC), Ambassador George M. Weah and Alan White, a former Chief of Investigations who served the Special War Crimes Court in Sierra Leone in 2005.The Ministry says the the secret deal was arranged between the two in June…

Interview by Geraldine Coughlan for Radio Netherlands, Leidschendam The judgment in the high-profile trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor is expected within months.

Executive Mansion, Monrovia An enthusiastic crowd greeted President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Standard-bearer of the ruling Unity Party Monday night, Sept. 26, as she and executives of the party, entered the historic town of Buutuo in Nimba County, on the final stop of a three- day campaign tour of vote-rich Nimba County.

Monrovia,Liberia The visiting Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) delegation has called on the Liberian media to be objective in their reportage and also help maintain the peace in the country to prevent Liberia from going back to the fourteen years of civil war.

Monrovia,Liberia The Supreme Court of Liberia would on Tuesday, exactly two weeks before the election, take a decision on whether President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, and some five other leading candidates are qualified to take part in the October 11 election.

Executive Mansion, Monrovia Two former Presidents, H.E. General Abdusalami A. Abubakar of Nigeria and H.E. John A. Kufuor of Ghana, on Friday paid a courtesy call on Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf at the Foreign Ministry in Monrovia.

Executive Mansion, Monrovia Job creation for thousands of unemployed Liberians is at the center of plans that have been put in place by the Unity Party Government for the second term of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. The Liberian leader, speaking in Gbarnga, Bong County, on Thursday, September 22, when her Party unveiled its Platform, announced that the government would create no fewer than 20,000 jobs annually, on a short- and…

Toronto, Canada The Toronto-based International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX) congratulates Edetaen Ojo and Malcolm Joseph, the leaders of IFEX member groups in Nigeria and Liberia, for winning Africa’s first awards for activism on access to information. The awards were handed out at the inaugural Pan African Conference on Access to Information, held in Cape Town, South Africa, this week, which was attended by numerous IFEX members involved in campaigning…

Pointe Noire, Republic of the Congo The governments of the Republic of Congo and Benin have signed a land mark agreement to protect children from child trafficking, which in recent years has become a major problem in the Congo.

Accra, Ghana The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), at a mini-summit held Saturday has decided to call on the United Nations to extend its security operations to the border between Liberia and La Cote d’Ivoire.