Let’s selfishly safeguard our religious co-existence -President Jammeh urges Gambians
Courtesy: Gambian News
December 30, 2009
The Gambian leader, His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya AJJ Jammeh, has called on Gambians not to take it for granted that Christians and Muslims have ever lived together as a family that is characterized by mutual tolerance, love and respect, and must continue to make every effort to nurture and selfishly safeguard this co-existence as a nation with a common goal and future, despite the respective ethnic origin, social status, and more importantly, different religions. Read detail
Auditors Reportedly found Liberia's Information Minister Defrauded Government
But Thomas Nah, executive director of Transparency and Accountability in Liberia says the Sirleaf government has been too slow when it comes to prosecuting senior government officials accused of corruption
Courtesy: VOA
December 28, 2009

Reports out of Liberia say the country’s General Auditing Commission (GAC) has completed its audit of the Ministry of Information and found that suspended Minister Laurence Bropleh defrauded the government to the tune of $358,000. Read detail
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‘We Need Them,’ Says Ellen of Diaspora Liberians
Courtesy: Liberian Observer
December 27, 2009
MONROVIA – President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf fielded questions on two major issues on a local radio talk show Monday morning – corruption and her government’s employment of Liberians from the Diaspora.

The radio station, Truth FM 96.1, hosted the President on its Truth Breakfast Show yesterday morning.
In answer to questions about the prosecution of suspended Information Minister, Laurence K. Bropleh, who is alleged to be involved in acts of corruption at the Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism (MICAT), the president said she said she feels for him, but that added that her administration, nonetheless, stands ready to implement recommendations from the GAC audit. Read detail
‘If You Beat Your Wife, You Will Go to Court’
President Sirleaf Declares at Launching new National Gender Policy
Courtesy: Liberian Observer
December 26, 2009
MONROVIA – A National Gender Policy, aimed at ensuring that all Liberians, especially rural women, are given an equal chance to participate in the resources of the country and in national development, was formally launched on Thursday by the President of Liberia, Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.The ceremony took place at the S.K.D. Stadium, where hundreds of women from all parts of the country were in attendance. Read detail
Interim leader promises 'free elections' on anniversary of coup
Courtesy: France24News
December 25, 2009
The interim leader of Guinea's ruling junta, Sekouba Konate, who stepped in for injured strongman Moussa Dadis Camara, has vowed to hold elections "at the earliest possible date", in a speech to mark one year since a military coup.Guinea's interim leader vowed Wednesday to hold democratic elections and urged national reconciliation after a massacre of opposition supporters, as the restive west African country marked a year since a military coup. Read detail
LIBERIA AND THE UNITED STATES DURING THE COLD WAR: THE LIMITS OF RECIPROCITY- A REVIEW BY A. SAYKU KROMAH, FORMER LIBERIAN FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICER
By: D. ELWOOD DUNN
December 24, 2009
Liberia and the United States During the Cold War: The Limits of Reciprocity by Dr. D. Elwood Dunn released September 2009 by Palgrave Macmillan Press is a major contribution to the ongoing discussion on not only Liberia, the first independent Africa Republic (1847) successful attempt at surviving in a world dominated by European Imperialist powers of Britain, France, Germany, and Spain, but the internal dynamics of the domestic ethnic configuration of the country itself (former slaves from the United States and the  indigenous population comprising nearly fifteen ethnicities,  each with its distinct language and unique cultural  identity).  Read detail
Newspaper Publisher Goes to Court for Libeling President Sirleaf
Courtesy: VOA
December 23, 2009
In Liberia, the publisher of the Plain Truth newspaper and the general manager of the Seamarco Printing press will appear in court Tuesday to answer charges of sedition, criminal libel and malevolence.Syrenius Cephus and Michael Makinde were arrested and jailed after the paper ran an article in its December 9th edition claiming that President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s government supplied arms to dissident forces in neighboring Guinea. Read detail
Minnesota Mandingo Community continues its college graduation momentum- Abrahim Bility commencement events in pictorial
December 22, 2009

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Gambia government deports Africans
Courtesy: Gambian News
Dec 20, 2009
The Gambia government has deported a number of foreign nationals for non-payment of 'Alien permits'. The deported nationals who include Senegalese, Guineans, Ghanaians, Nigerians and other nationals, were reportedly 'dumped' in the Senegalese border village of Karang, where local authorities have been expressing consternation over the rational behind the move. Read detail
Noisy sex woman admits Asbo breach
Courtesy: BBC
December 18, 2009
A woman who was given an anti-social behaviour order banning her from making loud noises during sex has admitted breaching the order.
Caroline and Steve Cartwright's love-making was described as "murder" and "unnatural" at Newcastle Crown Court.
Neighbours, the local postman and a woman taking her child to school complained about the noise. Read detail
Former aide explains why he tried to kill junta leader
Courtesy: France24 News
December 17, 2009
In an exclusive telephone interview with RFI radio station, Moussa Dadis Camara's former aide-de-camp, Aboubacar "Toumba" Diakite explains why he fired on Guinea's junta leader, who is currently in intensive care in Morocco.French radio RFI spoke to former Guinean junta member Aboubacar “Toumba” Diakite, who has been in hiding since a Dec. 3 attempt to assassinate his former boss, junta strongman Captain Dadis Camara. Read detail
Sierra Leone woman barred from becoming chief
Courtesy: BBC
December 16, 2009
Members of a Sierra Leone traditional group have besieged a woman's house and stopped her from going home after she launched a legal bid to become a chief.
Elizabeth Simbiwa Sogbo-Tortu was barred from an election to the chiefdom because she was a woman.
She lost an initial appeal against the ban - a ruling condemned by women's rights
groups who are vowing to take her case to the Supreme Court. A BBC correspondent says politicians are afraid of angering traditionalists. Read detail
Jammeh laments Gambia's British colonial rule
Courtesy:Gambian News
December 15, 2009
Gambian President Yayah Jammeh has lamented that in the 400 years of British colonial rule, the country had only two high schools and two hospitals, PANA reported from here Sunday.
"The bad image of Africa is always being portrayed on television, yet it is the African blood and tears that built the West and Africa did not receive anything from them other than castigation," Jammeh stated while addressing two groups of y o ung Britons from Sheikh Eternity and AS IT IS TV, as guests of the Jammeh Foundation for Peace (JFP) and the President's Empowerment of Girls Education Project (PEGEP). Read detail
I, Too, Love Prophet Jesus With Passion
By: Nvasekie N. Konneh
December 14, 2009
In 1956, the Cameroonian writer Alexandre Biyidi Awala known by his Pen name, Mongo Beti published a novel, The Poor Christ of Bomba. It was a work of satire about a European priest who had come with the “idea” which he thought was good for Africans. As it turned out the Africans did not want what the European priest was offering. Mongo Beti’s “Poor Christ” was a good man who was disappointed by the people to whom he had come to minister to. He eventually left and went back to Europe. Given its title and critical portrayal of the Catholic Church at the time, it was condemned as a blaspheme. Read detail
Special Islamic Prayer Services for the late Ansumana SHERIFF, aka ANSU
December 12, 2009
The SHERIFF and KAMARA families regret to announce the death of Mr. Ansumana SHERIFF, aka ANSU, of Staten Island, New York, U.S.A. This sad event occurred at the New York University Hospital in New York City on Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at 3:00 P.M. following a relatively protracted illness. May the soul of Brother Ansu SHERIFF and the souls of all faithful departed through the mercy of the Almighty Allah rest in perfect peace and light perpetual shine on them all, Ameen. Special Islamic prayer services will be held on Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 12:00 P.M. in the Masjid Rahmatilla, located at 36 Hardy Street, Staten Island, New York 10304-1824, (718) 727-7412 Read detail
DEATH ANNOUNCEMENT:
December 11, 2009 
The SHERIFF and KAMARA families regret to announce the death of Mr. Ansumana SHERIFF, aka ANSU, at the New York University Hospital in New York City on Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at 3:00 P.M. following a relatively protracted illness. May the soul of Brother Ansu SHERIFF and the souls of all faithful departed through the mercy of Allah rest in perfect peace. Read detail
Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission Releases Final Report
Courtesy: VOA News
December 10, 2009
Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission has released the consolidated version of its final report.
Five months after releasing an unedited version of its final report, Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission has released its consolidated final report.
Speaking in Monrovia, TRC President Jerome Verdier dedicated the report to the people of Liberia."The report is the people of Liberia's property - all of those who died, all of those who as a consequence of the war are buried today in unmarked graves.  Read detail
Jesus Died In Liberia
By Omari Jackson
December 10, 2009
Konneh---The Writer
No the writer, Mr. Nvasekie Konneh was not challenging history, but his poem took many by surprise and shock.
For fourteen years his country was mired in self-destruction, and he did not believe events that culminated in the self-destruction were justified.In his self-realization, he asked, “Who says Jesus was crucified in Palestine 2000 years ago?” Was that a question? It certainly seemed so, but who was it directed to? It did not take a breath of air, and he answered his own question. Read detail
Group Calls on Liberian President Sirleaf to Implement TRC Report or Resign
Courtesy: VOA News
December 08, 2009
Patrick Nimely Sie-Tuon of the U.S.-based Liberia Human Rights Campaign says the group has nothing personal against President Sirleaf only to end impunity in LIberia
Five months after releasing the unedited version of its final report, Liberia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) will Tuesday release its consolidated final report during a news conference in the capital, Monrovia. Read detail
Assassination attempt was a thwarted coup, says Junta
Courtesy: France 24 News
December 07, 2009
Guinea's ruling junta described the attack against junta chief Moussa Dadis Camara as an attempted coup by his aide Aboubacar Sidiki Diakite, and offered a large reward for his capture. Camara is undergoing medical treatment in Morocco.Guinea's junta Sunday called the shooting of Captain Moussa Dadis Camara this week a failed coup attempt, as the junta leader was reportedly recovering well from surgery in Morocco. Read detail
Nimba Mandingoes want inheritance right respected
By: Emmanuel Broh
Courtesy: Star Radio News
December 05, 2009

Members of the Nimba Mandingo Community have disclosed an ambitious plan to return to their homeland of Ganta and contribute to the county’s reconstruction process. A spokesman of the Nimba Mandingo Community told Star Radio they wanted to return to Ganta to rebuild their structures damaged by years of war. Read detail
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Ivorian Mediators Push For Early 2010 Vote
Courtesy: VOA
December 05, 2009
Ivorian mediators meeting in Ouagadougou this week decided that the long-delayed presidential poll in Ivory Coast should take place at the end of February or early March of next year.
Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo and former rebel leader and current Prime Minister, Guillaume Soro, met in Ouagadougou this week with Burkinabe President and facilitator, Blaise Compaoré, in what has become yet another chapter in the country's tortuous path towards a presidential election. Read detail
Junta leader Camara wounded in assassination bid, former aide arrested-watch video
December 04, 2009