Islamic Prosperity Mosque Dedicated in Jacob’s Town
Courtesy: Public Agenda News
27 February,2010
The Muslims in Jacob Town who constructed for the community a new Mosque, have now officially dedicated the building to the service of the one true God of the universe. During the occasion on Friday February 19, 2010, several Muslims from other parts of the city joined their colleagues, assembled at the mosque and listened to the sermon delivered by the Imam on that auspicious occasion. Among those who graced the comprised both the prominent and ordinary people within the Muslim community. Read detail
An Open Letter to President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
Her Excellency Madam Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
President of the Republic of Liberia
Monrovia, Liberia
February 26, 2010
Dear Madam President:
I have the honor of writing to you to express my concern about the seriousness of the land dispute in Ganta, Nimba County, which developed as a result of Liberia’s civil war. This issue has the potential of compromising your administration’s drive for peace, justice, and good governance. This is especially true in view of the lack of meaningful progress on the part of your administration toward protecting the rights of the Mandingo people, who are the victims in an illegal and unacceptable appropriation of lands and houses by people who have no legal claims to them whatsoever. It is imperative that those properties be returned to their rightful owners. Read detail
A.B. Kromah On Anti-Corruption Strategy
Courtesy: Inquirer
25 February, 2010
Former Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) Chief of Staff Mr. Abraham Kromah who has been studying in the United States says he is in the country with an anti-corruption agenda. Mr. Kromah who is on a visit said he intends to meet with functionaries of government responsible for anti-corruption activities. “I intend to meet LACC to push those strategies that would encourage zero tolerance for corruption,” Mr. Kromah said. Mr. Kromah in an INQUIRER interview said there must be a practical stance against corruption if the nation's resources are to benefit all and not a privileged few. Read detail
Nimba Land Crisis Deepens, Squatters Defy Court Ruling
Courtesy: Public Agenda News
24 February, 2010

Despite government order for squatters to vacate properties belonging to some members of the Mandingoe ethnic group in certain parts of Nimba County, the squatters remain adamant even in the face of court ruling. But owners of the premises have threatened to take the law into their own hands if government refuses to repossess their properties. Read detail
Former Liberian Warring Faction Leader Goes Before a U.S. Judge Wednesday
Courtesy: VOA
23 February, 2010
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ha said it will not allow the United States to be a safe haven for those trying to evade prosecution and punishment for crimes committed in their homelands.
The warning comes as former Liberian warring faction leader George Boley goes before an immigration judge tomorrow (Wednesday) in Buffalo, New York. Read detail
Ivory Coast Without Government for a Week, Tensions Mount
Courtesy: VOA
21 February, 2010
Ivorians continue to wait for Prime Minister Guillaume Soro to announce a new government, as violence and political unrest mount in the country's interior.

Ivory Coast has been without a government for a week now, since President Laurent Gbagbo dissolved it and the independent electoral commission last Friday, further deepening a political crisis over alleged fraud in the country's voter list.Mr. Gbagbo had accused the electoral commission of approving a voter list containing almost half a million foreigners. Read detail
FALMD Fetes and Certificates UL Graduates & Community Organizer
20 February, 2010
Monrovia……January 10, 2010…The Forum for the Advancement of Liberian Mandingoes & Their Descendants has held an elaborate certification program for seven (7) of its members who recently graduated from the University of Liberia in various discipline ranging from Economics to Political Science as well as a community organizer Read detail
Muslim Youths Assure Liberians
19 February, 2010
The World Association of Muslim Youths has promised to assist in Liberia's reconstruction effort following years of civil conflict. The organization says after years of war, it was ready to help Liberian Muslims in contributing meaningfully to the country's human resource development in a bid to achieve the total reconstruction of the country. Read detail
Niger soldiers seize power, topple president
19 February, 2010

More Protests Break Out in Ivory Coast
Courtesy: VOA
18 February, 2010
More protests have broken out in Ivory Coast against the president's dismissal of the government.
Demonstrators set fire to a city bus in the main city of Abidjan Wednesday, while hundreds of people marched in towns around the country. Opposition groups had called for street protests after President Laurent Gbagbo dissolved the cabinet and electoral commission last Friday.
The dismissals are likely to delay a presidential election that has already been postponed six times since Mr. Gbagbo's mandate ran out in 2005. Read detail
The Gambia expels Unicef chief Min Whee-Kang
Courtesy: BBC
17 February, 2010
The Gambia has expelled the envoy of the UN's children charity, Unicef.
The organisation said officials gave Min Whee-Kang 24 hours to leave the country, and reports suggested she had left overland to neighbouring Senegal.
There was no immediate official explanation but correspondents say The Gambia has been increasingly criticised over its human rights record. President Yahya Jammeh, who seized power in a bloodless coup 1994, tolerates little dissent. Read detail
Another Minister Resigns from President Sirleaf's Cabinet
Courtesy: VOA
16 February, 2010
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has accepted the resignation of Internal Affairs Minister A.B. Johnson, a close relative of the president.

Cyrus Badio, press secretary to President Sirleaf said Minister Johnson was asked to resign because he breached procurement
procedures. “Minister Johnson fell short in the implementation of the rules governing the administration of the Social Development Fund, a special fund set up by government to support communities where companies like Arcelor Mittal are operating. And there are set guidelines which have been put in place to govern the administration of that special fund. Read detail
President Jammeh resumes controversial HIV/AIDS treatment programme
Courtesy: Gambian News
15 February, 2010
Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has resumed his controver sial Presidential Treatment Programme with a batch of 352 patients suffering from different ailments, ranging from HIV/AIDS, asthma and hypertension, PANA reported from here Friday. According to sources, Jammeh has retreated to his native village of Kanilai, some 120 kilometres south/east of Banjul capital, where he runs a clinic for the traditional herbal treatment programme.
The batch, consisting of 48 HIV/AIDS patients, 147 asthmatic and 157 hypertensive patients, have started taking the controversial medicine, which is largely based on herbal concoction and incantation since 11 February. Read detail
Ivory Coast President Gbagbo dissolves government
Courtesy: BBC
13 February, 2010
Ivory Coast's President Laurent Gbagbo has dissolved the government and electoral commission, casting doubt on when long-delayed elections will occur.
Prime Minister Guillaume Soro has been asked to form a new government.
Mr Gbagbo had accused the electoral commission of registering more than 400,000 people who were not eligible to vote because they were foreigners. The opposition says most of the people were from ethnic groups in the north, who were unlikely to support Mr Gbagbo. Read detail
Ganta Youth Plan Peaceful Demonstration if…
Courtesy: Inquirer News
11 February, 2010
Reports reaching this paper suggest that some youth of Ganta Nimba County are said to be planning a peaceful demonstration in that part of the country if nothing is done to reclaim their property. One of the youth Mr. Sekou Donzo told this paper over the weekend that they have waited for too long following several decision reached by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Office of the City Mayor of Ganta in 2008 to reclaim their properties. Read detail
Union Member to Head Guinea's New Transitional Council
Courtesy: VOA
11 February, 2010
Over a decree on state radio late Monday, Interim President Sekouba Konate said Rabiatou Serah Diallo would be president of the Transitional Council, which will manage the country's move to civilian rule.
A spokesman for Guinea's interim president announced a new ordinance. He said a Council of Transition would be formed in the West African country.
The director for the President's Press Office, Mandjou Dioubate, announced the president of the council was to be Rabiatou Sera Diallo, who is the secretary-general for the National Confederation of Guinean Workers. Read detail
Ganta Youths Raise Concern On Land Issue
Courtesy:Inquirer News
10 February, 2010
The Bible says that a wise man changes, meaning that it could even better his condition.This biblical saying is soberly reflected by a group of Youths of Ganta, Nimba County who have been faced with serious challenges in that part of Liberia to repossess their properties which they acquired legally from the government of Liberia.According to reports gathered from the youths following a mass meeting held in Monrovia recently at Mr. Sekou M. Donzo's residence, the youths said they arrived at a three-count resolution on how best to engage the government of Liberia and other stakeholders for an amicable solution in reclaiming their properties in Ganta. Read detail
OLM board member, Bangalee Trawally unveils Rescue Mission to the local Press in Liberia
10 February, 2010
If all goes well, hundreds of Liberians nationwide are expected to benefit from relief assistance from the Organization of Liberians in Minnesota (OLM) based in the United States of America. The OLM initiative is expected to be funded through fund-raising and other activities including a grant from the Federal Government of that country to support such a worthy initiative. According to a 3rd member of the Governing Board of OLM, Mr. Bangalee Trawally who is currently visiting Liberia, said all is now set for needed humanitarian assistance to war ravaged Liberians. Read detail
Ivory Coast Elections Could be Delayed Again
Courtesy: VOA
09 February, 2010
Controversy over the voter list in Ivory Coast is threatening to once again push back long-delayed presidential elections. Election-related protests erupted around Ivory Coast this past week.
Ivorian investigators have confirmed evidence of "fraud" in the voter list for the country's upcoming presidential elections.President Laurent Gbagbo accused the Independent Electoral Commission in January of approving a voter list that contained the names of almost a half million foreigners. The accusations were followed by calls for electoral commission head, Robert Mambé, to resign. Read detail
Three Samuel Does
By: Nvasekie N. Konneh
06 February, 2010
Was he on the Upper Layer of the 3rd or the 7th Sky? Where on this vast planet earth was him? Was he in the inner circle of the lower region of the milky moon watching us with cold frozen eyes? Was he in his hidden corner consulting the occult science teachers as how to lighten his way with his ambitious plan of upsetting the traditional order of things in our sleeping world? Whatever might have been the case, we were unaware of his existence and we could care less who he was and what he planned to do. He was not one of those firebrand revolutionaries whose revolutionary rhetoric was sounding like sweet music in our ears. Read detail
Nimba Land Dispute As Political Capital?
By: Mohamed M. Komara
05 February, 2010
One of the aggrieved Mandingoes of Nimba, , walked into the offices of the Public Agenda newspaper yesterday and expressed dismay over what he termed “the inexcusable official attitude of delaying the resolution of the unjustifiable Nimba Land crisis and the lukewarm attitude of government to restore to the ethnic Mandingoes their rights and entitlements that are forcibly and illegally taken away from them.” He maintained that “when the senseless civil war was brought and imposed on the people of Liberia in the name of revolution for justice and equality, little did Liberians know that their compatriots, the ethnic Mandingoes would be targeted for selective extermination by the planners, financers, and prosecutors of the bloody and senseless war.” Read detail
Liberian President Wants International Support for Guinea
Courtesy: VOA
03 February, 2010
Liberia's president says the transitional government in neighboring Guinea needs international support to hold elections in June that are meant to end more than a year of military rule.

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says the Economic Community of West African States will help Guinea return to constitutional rule through a transitional government led jointly by the country's acting military leader and its new civilian prime minister. Read detail
Gadhafi Blasts AU as He Steps Down as Chairman
Courtesy: VOA
01 February, 2010
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has stepped down as chairman of the 53-nation African Union, but not without firing a few verbal broadsides at the organization. Mr. Gadhafi chastised his fellow heads of state for refusing to go along with his plan for a "United States of Africa."All was calm on the surface. Africa's heads of state went into a conference room and emerged 20 minutes later to say Malawi's President Bingu wa Mutarika would assume the rotating African Union chairmanship for the coming year. Read detail