President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, will today commission 30 officials of Government in the C. Cecil Dennis, Jr. Auditorium at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Sekou Damate Conneh, the leader of the defunct Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD), has expressed remorse for his role in the Liberian conflict, saying his faction was a “resistant movement”.

UN Envoy Ellen Margrethe Løj has urged Liberians to encourage their children to go to school and to stay in school. She was speaking at a ceremony in Montserrado County where she commissioned Banjor Community School, newly rehabilitated by Nigerian Peacekeepers serving with the UN Mission in Liberia – UNMIL.

An Act to set the threshold to reapportion constituencies throughout Liberia has been crafted at the National Legislature following recent revelation emanated from a nationwide census that the country has over three million population growth.

A Swedish based concession company, Novel Commodities, which came to Liberia upon the request of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf sometime ago, has a Liberia branch seeking the National Legislature’s approval of a US$2.5 million investment.

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Former lethal rebel leader now Nimba County senior Senator, Prince Johnson Y. Johnson, has told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Monrovia that he and his men burnt former President Samuel Kayon Doe to ashes.

PUBLIC DEBATE OVER the appearance of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf at the ongoing “Thematic and Institutional Hearings” of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has drawn the attention of political actors and ordinary Liberians as major actors in the past civil crisis in the country continue to appear before the Commission to tell stories about the past.

A local Non- Government Organization based in Monrovia, From Hunger to Harvest (FHH), has disclosed its involvement in agriculture projects to enhance government’s ‘Back to the Soil’ project in country.

By: Roland Perry

A witness at the TRC Thematic and Institutional Hearings has accused former Police Director, Wilfred Clarke, of torturing her brother while in prison.

The Minister Counselor of Press and Cultural Affairs at the Liberian Embassy in Abuja, Federal Republic of Nigeria is reported dead.